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By Maria Morava
Relationships Reporter
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A wife who asked her husband to cook dinner while she was out has posted a kitchen disaster video showing his hilarious ineptitude for the simplest of tasks.
Footage posted by Chaeli Turbeville (@chaeliclack) on TikTok revealed her man had put the dinner in a slow cooker, without the inner liner. Since it was posted, the video has gone viral, receiving over 340,000 likes and over 1,700 comments.
"When you ask your husband to start dinner before work and you come home to find this," Turbeville captioned the video, which shows a stew cooking in the unlined pot. "Asked him to get dinner on before he left for work … he tried."
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In the comments, Turbeville clarified further that the slow cooker was one she had gotten for Christmas because of a broken lid on her old one—which her husband damaged by knocking the lid off. When she saw dinner cooking without the inner liner, she said all she could do was laugh.
Some in the comments, though, were just as confused as Turbeville's husband wondering what went wrong. Others helpfully clarified: "He essentially cooked eggs directly on the stove instead of putting them in a pan," @thebrotastic wrote.
Many wrote in jest, and about their own experiences with their husbands' kitchen misadventures—"So, what pizza company did you choose after this?" @angieefree wrote.
"My husband made lasagna without cooking the meat first," @tay.bassett wrote.
"He didn't even put it in the pot, he just put it in the crock," @alexus_haley wrote.
The video, pointed out by some, had the potential to ignite conversation on "weaponized incompetence," a term that frequently floats around posts in which men fail at household tasks.
"There's Reddit posts on the Internet of husbands asking people what they can do to keep their wife to stop asking them to do stuff," @sammyboochan wrote. "It's them just intentionally messing everything up, so that the wife thinks he's incompetent to do anything, and she ends up doing all of the work."
What is 'weaponized incompetence'?
While @sammyboochan clarified that they weren't accusing Turbeville's husband of weaponized incompetence, their comment still roused some users to name the phenomenon for the awareness of others.
Weaponized incompetence, or strategic incompetence, is a pattern of behavior in which someone—typically a man—intentionally performs a task poorly or unsuccessfully in order to prompt another person to pick up the work. The term is often used in relation to household duties and the gendered division of domestic labor.
While Turbeville's husband may have made an honest mistake, the discussion on men's household abilities—or presumed inabilities—remains active online as a relevant conversation, in part because of this phenomenon.
Newsweek reached out to @chaeliclack for comment via TikTok.
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