We usually think about acquiring good cooking habits and ways to improve our masterchef skills by implementing novelties, tips and tricks, and going out of our comfort zone. In fact, we previously wrote a handful of useful posts just about that and you can find them here, here and here.
But the truth is, unless we earn our bread from cooking, most of us are pretty susceptible to daily kitchen mishaps, faux pas and questionable recipes that would make any chef’s hair stand on end. “What bad cooking habits get on your nerves?” asked one Redditor on the Cooking community and added “For me it’s when people use the highest flame setting to cook EVERYTHING. It is wasteful, overcooks food, overboils everything and it really does ruin pans.”
The thread immediately resonated with cooking aficionados who saw it as a perfect opportunity to spill all the bad cooking habits that totally annoy them. And it’s not looking pretty.
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"I can't get my lasagna to taste as good as yours."
"Did you follow the recipe?"
"Yeah, but I don't really like pork so I substituted chicken, and instead of salt, I added extra sugar, because I prefer sugar. "
Putting no salt in anything and expecting the salt shaker at the table to do the job. Nothing seasoned at the table with a salt shaker will ever even approach the flavor of something that was seasoned throughout the cooking process.
Some people have to cook family meals for people with dietary restrictions. I HATE not bring able to use salt when preparing certain holiday meals because my dad is sodium restricted.
Parents who only steam veggies and barely use salt or pepper on them and then act all shocked when their kids don't like it. Of course they won't like that, most adults would be peeved getting something like that.
Something as simple as roasting veggies with some basic herbs and a good olive oil can make a huge difference.
I marinate my brussel sprouts in soy, sesame oil, minced garlic, vinegar, and a bit of sugar, for 20 minutes, then roast. Perfection!
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Tell me you don't know anything about kids without telling me you don't know anything about kids... They don't like strong flavors like pepper or "basic herbs" or things with weird textures like mushy roasted vegetables.
Most of the time no, but at least try something new. If a kid associates a carrot as only a boiled unseasoned carrot then all carrots are gross. I think the point can be made without focusing on the OP specifics.
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What? I like my steamed veggies as is or with some gravy. I actually don't know anyone who puts salt on steamed veggies. Roasted yes, but not steamed.
My kids happily eat steamed veggies with no salt. And they certainly won't get them with pepper. Start serving something when they're toddlers, and they'll eat it.
steamed veggis are great. As is or with some herbs. I too love them when I was a kid and adult. :d I got this groovy steamer that's also a rice cooker. I can cook both rice and steam veggies in one setting.
Load More Replies... In some cases I am not seasoning them at all, because some veggies are naturally sweet and I like their original taste.(carrot, broccoli, peas, corn etc.) Funny enough, my kids love these and eat a lot of them. Of course I would season it, if they wouldn't like it this way, but so far it works for us
I love roasted vegetables. As is, over pasta, chopped and tossed with rice...it's all good. But steamed veg can be good with a little effort.
My sister hated vegetables until her 30's then she realized she didn't hate all vegetables just those from a can which is what mom used to always make
I disliked several things growing up. Then I realized I disliked the way my mom made them more than anything. That's what sparked my interest in cooking as a kid.
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Ok my kid likes salt, she likes pepper, she loves Mrs. Dash, one of her favorite things to do is to get into the spice cabinet and open every single thing to smell it and altl me what it is, if she likes the way it smells she'll taste it. So everybody on here with the kids don't eat this or that, just stop it until you have asked every kid in the world. Oh and a side note here but I am so completely over the freaking saying"tell me you don't know blahblahblah without telling me you don't know blahblahblah" uuggh it was kinda funny the first thousand times I read it but not any. more. Okay I'm done
I nanny on the side and I see Moms saying their kids don't do veggies. I quietly open hummus & carrots for lunch, and they're very curious to try new things. So far I'm batting 100% on kids who will try AND like hummus on a carrot.
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Are you kidding my mom's family just boiled all the vegetables with no seasoning until they were mushy and it was gross as hell.
My dad makes grilled carrots with olive oil, salt and some other herbs I’m not sure of, and they’re amazing!!!!
Smells like snobby advice to me. I love my veggies raw or lightly steamed.
I never had a problem eating my veggies as a kid mostly because I'd slather it in hot sauce YUM!
Roasting and steaming are both great, but boiling should be outlawed.
I saute alot of fresh veggies, sometimes after a quick blanch, in a little butter or olive oil with some herbs and a tiny bit of salt and pepper. A squeeze of lemon will also brighten up the flavor and help reduce the need for salt.
My kid loves her veggies, lol, she's more likely to eat a carrot raw than roasted with herbs. And broccoli and cauliflower just cooked is a snack in our home.
My mom was a great cook. I ate all my veggies, except the okra - yuck. Kids will eat veggies if they are cooked right.
My mother is SO guilty of this! I just can't imagine why my 8 year old self hated mushy microwaved peas or green beans..... It was always an epic battle to get me to choke some down. There were a lot of foods that I thought I didn't like when I was growing up. It turns out my Mom was just a terrible cook and didn't know how to prepare things so that they tasted good. Poor mom. :) She's learned how to cook since I then and is no longer afraid of seasonings.
my mother never used and spices she didn't like them the food was very bland and not very good
Everything that's cooked well and with bacon and good seasoning would be good 😂
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I grew up on steamed frozen veggies and love their refreshing taste. I hate it when they're seasoned now 😔
Ohhhhh yes!!! Roasted veggies are divine! I adore roast kale with garlic, it's absolutely gorgeous 😍
If you have a pretty clean palate, then steamed veggies taste great. You do not have to oil or salt or pepper everything to make it taste good. Children especially do not need excessively fatty or seasoned foods. The problem isn't the veg. It's that if you are raised on a diet of burgers, nuggets and pizzas, then fresh food isn't going to taste good to you.
Mine just deep fried them or boiled them into a mush. I had to try things as an adult to know what veggies I liked. Turned out, nearly all of them. Not you cauliflower.
What is FAR worse is vegetables cooked until they are khaki and soggy and revolting/ Most vegies are nicer raw, unless they are starchy.
My husband's Mother! Growing up she basically boiled the crap out of every vegetable, and they were always canned. He was shocked to find that he actually DIDN'T hate broccoli or asparagus, which I lightly steamed with salt, pepper & a touch of fresh lemon juice OR green beans, which my brother sautéed with olive oil, minced (fresh) garlic, S&P and again a hint of fresh lemon juice. I still haven't convinced him to try roasted Brussels Sprouts with balsamic vinegar glaze, but I'm working on it!
My mother steamed everything tour mushy pulp, so as a kid I didn’t eat any vegetables. As I go up to adult hood and start a cooking for myself I find there are many vegetables that I like with proper seasoning. Broccoli, asparagus, and many others.
Better than boiling them into oblivion. Roasted and Steamed are actually better options because the veggies keep the taste.
I hated vegetables until I was in my mid 30's because my mom and grandma boiled them until there was nothing but mush. You would think they cooked them for people without teeth. Then I went to WW and another member gave me recipes to try and it changed my life.
My mom used to make these amazing baby carrots in a brown sugar sauce. Not all of the time, obviously, but often enough that it made me like carrots lol. Nothing has ever been able to convince me on celery, however...
Okay salt is a terrible seasoning. I get the point here but salt is not your friend and does so much like burn your taste buds so maybe don't scream that as the rule for for to treat vegetables.
I'm not inviting people into my house to critic my cooking, so what does it matter, how the f**k I cook?
Garlic and onion powder are my salt. I almost never salt the food because of this.
When children are born, their taste buds are pristine. The will taste the natural flavor of foods and not need salt or butter. If they are given nutritious foods from the start, rather than chicken nuggets and the manufactured "foods" that so many kids are raised on, they will like vegetables. Avoid commenting negatively about nutritious foods in your child's presence, because they strive to emulate their parents. In my home, my daughter ended up not eating foods her father didn't like.
Took our kids out for dinner. Thought my fussy kid would at least eat the veges... and he was keen... but way over salted. A very hungry boy when we got home.
Neither of my kids wants to eat steamed, boiled, roasted vegetables. But if we serve raw vegetables, they both eat a ton of them.
This was my entire childhood. I was forever the picky eater. Uh no! I love food, I don't like how you prepare it.
Mmmmm... I love plain steamed veggies, and eat them at least 1x/day. Carrots, broccoli, parsnip, and asparagus... sometimes add red pepper just for the color. I have on occasion used tarragon, love that, but usually they're just naked. 😋
because I established eating fruita & vegetables both as-is & seasoned, my son eats both. of course some recipes taste better with seasoning, but I don't want my child to be in the habit of only liking apples if they have peanut butter/caramel, only liking broccoli if it has cheese sauce, only deciding Brussels sprouts are edible if they have salt on them allll the time. start from young!
So much complaining. If you don't like how others cook then start cooking for yourselves. And for those complaining about no salt or not enough being added to the food during cooking, all it takes is a little wrist action to add some salt yourself at the table.
I love steamed broccoli plain, no butter. oil or salt. My son is not a vegetable person, but he will eat green beans, corn and peas, all with a bit of butter and a shake of seasoned salt. Anything that could possibly be a leafy green like herbs is going to get picked off. Carrot raw with ranch dressing is often acceptable and he will eat cooked carrots with a little butter, honey or brown sugar and a shake of ginger.
Why the hell would you put salt on everything? That's not healthy at all! I remember my first time in de US, i was shocked to see kids putting way too much salt on their pizza. Like, pizza is already super salty. I had never seen this before in Europe.
Kids who put too much salt on food and wonder why their parents don't like it. It always amazes me when one person doesn't like another person's way of doing something and automatically assumes their way is best for everyone lol
My mom rarely used seasoning. I ate my veggies. I just had to outgrow my bland palate when I got older.
My parents all the way!! And I did the SAME THING until literally 5 months ago when I decided to season my scrambled eggs for the first time ever (I joke that it's because I'm white but my grandma made me eggs a month ago and they were SO BLAND!). They were AMAZING. I hardly seasoned because I didn't know there was a point & that salt is bad for you. But now I literally season EVERYTHING and it has been life changing! It's crazy how I lived most of my life just eating un seasoned veggies & stuff.
Salt is not bad for you unless you have a health condition.
Load More Replies... I always hated salt on most of my food, if mam salted my veggies i wouldn't eat them
In China, I never met a kid who didn't like vegetables. Vegetables can taste good and still be healthy. I honestly think Americans believe healthy food must be disgusting, and that's why they do stuff like this.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. My kid wouldn't be caught dead eating roasted veggies, they're either going to be steamed (I also prefer steamed veg most of the time) or raw. Steamed veg are not flavourless, they don't have to be roasted or fried and add hundreds of calories to taste fine.
Niece: Ew these are gross. More like... Bads sprouts! Me: *adds Velveeta cheese and crumbles bacon* Niece: These are good! Much better than those bad sprouts! Me: Bro they're the sa- w/e. Just eat.
I feel like these comments are USA bs the world (or future heart problems vs long lives)
My mom would boil them to Mush with margarine. They tasted like slime, looked like slime, and we would have to gag them down. She force-fed me some once, and I barfed all over the table
Eh yeah. Too much salt is unhealthy anyways. Food carries it's own sodium.
As a vegan, I can attest to this, I learned how to cook veggies and really enjoy them. My kid loved his veggies too.
God yes! I see posts from American parents claiming that their kids are picky eaters and they post pictures of food that looks so dull it's no wonder their kids won't eat it.
10 years in kitchens here so bear with me...
crowding pans, moving/scraping cut ingredients with the sharp side of knife, knife in the sink, steaming most veggies, not salting pasta water, watering down beer for brats, way too much water when boiling pasta, adding garlic too early & burning it, not toasting buns, not letting leftovers cool before putting in tupper-ware & fridge, etc etc etc.
edit: add to that impatiently flipping/mixing around food while its cooking! whether it's burgers/steaks/veggies whatever! sometimes you need a lil color/char
but also if someone else cooks for me, i will love whatever it is sincerely and not say a word.
Boiling vegetables until they are mush. My husband didn’t eat vegetables for more than half of his life because he thought they were disgusting. I found out it was because his grandmother just boiled everything and then covered it in that nasty “0 calorie” spray butter. ROAST THEM. SAUTEE. GRILL. please don’t boil veg unless for something specific like potatoes or you need to blanch something.
Both my sets of grandparent did this, which meant for a long time my parents did too, because they didn't know how to do it better.
My mother’s glass cutting board. I lack the words to explain the torture of using a glass cutting board. Awful. I did finally buy her a couple good knives that she won’t use. This year I am getting her a nice wooden board for her to not use.
Oh yes, my parents had a glass chopping board when I was a kid and I hated the sound out made.
Stop opening the oven. If you're looking, it ain't cooking!
especially for suffles and profiterolles, which will collapse and be spoiled by opening the oven too soon.
My husband “seasons the pan” instead of seasoning the food. As in, he sprinkles salt/pepper/Italian seasoning into a hot pan and then adds plain, unseasoned protein on top. He seems to think this accomplishes the same thing as seasoning the meat directly. It does not.
I can’t deal when they put the onion and garlic in at the same time and expect the onions to be caramelised. I need more time than the garlic will allow !
Following the recipe even when your food is clearly going to sh*t. Looks burnt at 20 mins? Maybe don't cook it for 25.
There’s a guy I work with that makes me cry when he cooks a steak. Toss a cold steak in a cold pan and cook on med-low, flips it at 15 minutes for another round. Cooked meat should not be gray.
More of a lack of a habit than a habit, but not sharpening knives regularly is one of the worst things to do to your knives. And 9 out of 10 times, people cut themselves on a dull knife, not a sharp one. Its also just better for the food you are going to end up eating; your veggies wont be so bruised, your steaks wont be that little bit extra tenderized from forcing a dull knife through it. The dullest knife ive ever seen couldnt slice through the skin of a baked potato. So it is in your interest and the food's also.
Every. Single. Thing. My. Dad. Cooks.
He puts good meat in a slow cooker with nothing but water. Slowly boiled meat. Yum.
Puts all ingredients in a pan before he heats the pan
He uses a glass cutting board
"As far as I'm concerned, the microwave is the best way to cook _____."
A thick layer of aerosol cooking spray on meat before grilling it.
Never give this man a ribeye.
My Dad cooked one meal a year and acted like it was going to be a gourmet experience for all. I remember him describing the best way to cook green beans: put them in a casserole, with french onion soup mix and water and cook slowly for an hour. My step mother and I looked at each other and said "uh, no". Steam them for a minute or two and put some butter on. Let the green beans be green beans and speak for themselves. I think my father was thinking slow cooked meat is yummy so slow cooked beans would be too.
I have had to teach so many of my friends to TASTE THEIR FOOD AS THEY COOK IT. Shocked me that apparently that wasn’t obvious to some people
Dirty cooks. Leaving the knife dirty, not wiping down the counter, cross contaminating everything.
"I don't cook with salt."
And people who only use shortcuts that get mad because they tried my recipe and it didn't work.
Putting the noodles into the water before it's boiled, like legit the water is straight out of the tap and the stove's not on yet. Read the goddamn instructions, boiling water takes longer than 3 minutes and thats why your ramen is fucking mushy.
When people press down hard on everything they’re cooking...I am thinking of one person in particular that is an absolute dumpster fire in the kitchen. Making pancakes? She flips them and then mashes them down with the spatula! Fried eggs? Smash em!
Also when people don’t let meat rest after it’s cooked. Or cut with the grain.
For me, heat is part of the joy of eating meat. So what if some juices run from the meat when it's cut. The juices mix with other food on the plate anyway, so it all gets consumed.
My mother uses metal utensils when cooking in our Teflon pans, then complains that they wear so easily. Even AFTER I've explained you never use metal in the pans, she does it anyway and says she forgot.
We have gone through 3 non-stick pans so far.
Plating food, then moving a screaming hot pan to the sink and dumping cold water all over it. Had to explain to a friend why she couldn't do this to her roommate's brand new Le Creuset braiser.
Cross contamination. Whether it’s products or utensils with raw to cooked foods. Washing hands in there too... these things get on my nerves for real.
Margarine. It is NOT the same as butter. Got into a fight with my mom last Christmas over her wanting me to use margarine in the macaroni and the mashed potatoes.
Then she tried to cook asparagus in the microwave (with margarine) but I'm hoping that was just a her thing.
I can't even think of a single place where I think the use of margarine is justified, exept for, perhaps, if you are cooking for a lactose intollerant person. Especially if you are making Danish pastry, you MUST use butter. Those substituting it width margarine, make a product where the fat just coats the upper part of your mouth in a thin film, that will not dissolve as you eat it.
When people f**k with the timer/burner when I’m cooking. I had some tomato sauce going at a nice even simmer, but apparently someone else in my household thought it should be boiling like pasta water, so they jacked up the temp to high and added more time to the timer...
Same thing happened to me, difference they reduce the flames when I wanted to boil something. I kept wondering why on earth won't this water boil realised it 10 mins later.
Starting a big cooking project with dirty dishes in the sink. Not cleaning while you go.
I will wipe down the kitchen table and stove before and after cooking.
Refusing to use salt when seasoning a dish. My friend thinks that she has "discovered" how to season food with herbs and spices and that she doesn't need to use boring old salt. It is kind of pretentious and her food is very bland.
When you make the effort to do a BEAUTIFUL roast dinner for someone for the first time and they immediately drown it in cheap sh*tty tomato sauce. Happened to me last week. It cut a little bit, I’ll admit.
If that's the way they are used to and they enjoy it, why is it a problem. It's not a reflection on your cooking, it's just about different tastes. Wouldn't it be worse if they turned their nose up at it and refused to eat it because they didn't like it plain?
Nonstick pans don’t hold heat well. So if you’re trying to get a sear on meat, as soon as you put the meat in the nonstick, the heat transfers and the pan temp goes down. So getting consistent browning and crust is impossible.
I’ve had really expensive pans of all kinds, and nothing has outperformed my $18 cast iron skillet. Everything from searing meat, to browning veggies, to baking pizzas and breads. Nothing compares. If it’s the Maillard Reaction you’re trying to achieve, it’s the best option in my opinion. If you prefer carbon steel or stainless steel, I won’t argue with you because the differences aren’t super noticeable. But from my taste buds and experiences, it’s cast iron.
I have all 3. Have never had issues getting a sear in a nonstick pan though.
This is burned into my memory: I was at a friend's house and she was making guacamole. Her idea of pitting the avocado was wielding the chef knife in a stabbing motion directed point first at the pit, while she was holding the avocado half in her other hand. I thought I was watching a slasher film. I was TERRIFIED.
You don't need to use the knife at all. Just quarter the avocado from top to bottom, and you can pop the pit right out of the one quarter it sticks to. Without the knife.
Not seasoning food. Unless for health reasons. Also, salting a plate before tasting.
I hate it. Why add something to a plate without tasting. To get my revenge I added a tad extra salt before serving and my family member added salt without tasting. You knw what happened.
Pots on the stove with the handles sticking out. It’s so easy to elbow-bump one and have boiling water on your knees. Don’t cook barefoot!
When they put 5 grains of salt instead of a good pinch.
A friend puts a tiny pinch of salt in his pasta water (and oil😖)... and then complains, that the pasta tastes so bland, when he cooks a pasta dish.
I have many but adding garlic on the pan too early and burning it to bitter. Looking at you, Facebook videos I end up watching even when I haven't subscribed.
People cutting up things one at a time. Example: celery stalks. Grab a few at a time!!!
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My parents grew up in very rural areas during the Great Depression where they would overcook the food to kill anything that would make you sick. They didn't learn to cook any differently when they got older so I grew up with bland, mushy vegetables, hockey puck steaks, and tough dry chicken. Never liked beef or veggies much until I got out on my own and learned how to properly cook them. They were only cooking how they knew, but overcooking is my big pet peeve.
I still remember my depression-era grandfather, who was born in 1910, saving EVERYTHING and eating it months later. He would try to eat meat that'd been in the fridge for weeks. He also never rinsed dishes when he washed them "to preserve water". Going over to see him was a gastric nightmare if he ever tried to cook for you. And, to this day, my father (who was born in '45 and is a multi-millionaire) makes fresh coffee on Monday, leaves the grounds in the maker all week, and just tops it off with a sprinkling more of new coffee each morning. I live far away from them and didn't know this until all three of my siblings approached me at once after my dad handed me a cup of coffee on a visit and said, "You do NOT want to drink THAT!"
Load More Replies... Some of these things really don't matter at all. I also find all the knife comments annoying. If your knife cuts your food to your satisfaction, then why does it matter? Not everyone needs to have some professional set of expensive knives to make good food.
I mean, I get having cheap knives. I do. I've lived with them most of my life, and I turned out alright. But you need👏 to👏 sharpen👏 them! 👏👏 I don't care if you use one of those cheap handheld drag-it-through things or a whetstone, just sharpen your damn knives! It's safer, easier to use, and faster! And no, the honing stick doesn't count, but use that too.
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I just love all these bored panda lists that have the same thing repeated in it multiple times and they'll title it something like 30 great tips and it's really 22 different tips and 1 tip repeated 8 times
And, actually, as it turns out, like1actual tip and 40 entries where people are just bïtching to feel superior.
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Yea although some are legit complaints, some of these stuff are just people being a d**k because they think they know something around the kitchen. Like "not cleaning as i go". Wth, i clean after i finish cooking. I don't splash dirty sink water into my food. Or those snobby people with their fancy knifes and pans, it doesn't even have to be the money. Some people don't have access to quality products. You're telling me they all don't eat proper? Nonsense. Awful, BP.
Dear God... the salt/no-salt cults are as bad as the political ones here. Forget medical reasons, people seem to be personally offended if someone disagrees. Example: unless my pasta is plain or in a VERY mild sauce, I cannot tell any difference so why waste salt by adding it?
If you like me, reads cookbooks from history - for example Hanna Glass "The Complete Art Of Cookery (late 18'th century), you soon realise that meassuring salt and seasoning is a rather new thing. Even in the 1800's it often said something like "salt and seasoning to taste". Leaving you to guesstimate how much to put in the food. It was not even a sure thing they listed all the herbs/spices you were supposed to out in the pan.
I love historical cooking! Erik, have you seen Townsends? https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson
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I've got beefs with some of the salt comments. Yes, salt your food while cooking and taste as you go, etc, but Americans really do eat way too much salt. Whenever I get back from an international trip everything here tastes so salty in comparison. And don't even get me started on Chicago, even a 4 star restaurant there was inedibly salty.
The other side of this is that some people unknowingly over-salt as a way to intuitively self-treat medical issues (like problems with electrolytic balance and low blood pressure). I have had an autonomic disorder for 35 years that causes my blood pressure to.drop to dangerously low levels (50/30, 60/40), and my electrolytic balance is constantly out of whack (I've even had a heart attack because of it). So I always craved and ate tons of salt to help counter it AfterI was properl diagnosed, I was told that I SHOULD be eating 6-7 gr of salt a day--which I often would--just to counter the impact of having a dysfunctional autonomic nervous system. It's the most effective treatment for low blood pressure and electrolytic imbalance bc it doesn't cause many side effects. People have always joked about how much salt I eat. Better than having another heart attack or alway passing out when I stand, though..like many people who constantly crave salt but don't know why. Intuitive eating.
Load More Replies... Salt AND oil go in the pasta water. Neither of those are for flavor! The salt is to raise the boiling point of water, and the oil is to help prevent foaming and boiling over. Learn your sh!t, people! (Edit) AND FFS, if you drink or cook with fluoridated tap water, use regular **iodized** salt on your food.
You only add oil to pasta water if you're stunned. It leaves a coating on the pasta and then the sauce doesn't stick. Also, people add oil so the pasta doesn't stick together, nothing to do with foaming? Lol Never use oil for pasta unless you don't want the sauce to stick
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What's wrong with a glass cutting board? I don't have one I'm just genuinely asking. I always thought they were "better" because wood soaks up juices which always seemed unsanitary to me. I have a wood one because it was handed down to me and I just never bought another, but still what's with the hatred of glass?
Brrrr shudder. The sound alone gives me the w*****s ... Get a plastic one.
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I hope salt it properly in some of these points mean salt it properly and not the far more common: I can't taste the salt in your food because my taste buds allready commited suicide!
People, that are too aware of everything considered as healthy and unhealthy food and always annoy you or try to teach you like you dont know, with their knowlege about industy and ingreediients and so on. Often, i care about organic food, sometimes there must be fastfood for pleasure. Got noting to do with inconsequency
People, that are too aware of everything considered as healthy and unhealthy food and always annoy you or try to teach you like you dont know, with their knowlege about industy and ingreediients and so on. Often, i care about organic food, sometimes there must be fastfood for pleasure. Got notjing to do with inconsequency
My in-laws are salters, they use an obscene amount of salt while cooking, and then salt it again at the table, the first few times I ate with them I was awestruck
To everyone that answered my glass cutting board question... thank you :) I get it now.
Growing up in a major metropolitan area and moving to Appalachia, I was surprised how many people ONLY fry their vegetables, steaks, potatoes etc, and ONLY in lard, and only deep fry chicken. My wife was talking to a couple of women about cooking and she told them that she doesn't fry anything, and doesn't cook with lard. The women looked at her with puzzled faces and asked her how she cooks ANYTHING? She tried to explain how we sautéed foods, baked and grilled meats etc, and they looked at her like she stepped off a UFO. A lot of people around here cook everything to "well done" PLUS, including seafood. When my wife explained how we season food, things like adding Feta cheese and veggies to scrambled eggs, or hot sauce to things, they, like a lot of people around here, just said ""We don't like seasoning on our food. Besides, if I don't fix it like my mother in law did, my husband won't eat it."
All the ones adding heaps of salt to their foods. Your palate simply SUCKS
These are some good tips. Someone should collect them, put them down on paper, bind the paper up, and sell it. I'd bet they could make a lot of money.
People who insist on peeling everything. It can turn a quick prep time into a long one. As long as the peel is edible, leave it on.
I really don't care for skins in my mashed potatoes or on my fries.
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Have a sibling who cooks everything to mush, then wonders why no one eats at her house.
My parents grew up in very rural areas during the Great Depression where they would overcook the food to kill anything that would make you sick. They didn't learn to cook any differently when they got older so I grew up with bland, mushy vegetables, hockey puck steaks, and tough dry chicken. Never liked beef or veggies much until I got out on my own and learned how to properly cook them. They were only cooking how they knew, but overcooking is my big pet peeve.
I still remember my depression-era grandfather, who was born in 1910, saving EVERYTHING and eating it months later. He would try to eat meat that'd been in the fridge for weeks. He also never rinsed dishes when he washed them "to preserve water". Going over to see him was a gastric nightmare if he ever tried to cook for you. And, to this day, my father (who was born in '45 and is a multi-millionaire) makes fresh coffee on Monday, leaves the grounds in the maker all week, and just tops it off with a sprinkling more of new coffee each morning. I live far away from them and didn't know this until all three of my siblings approached me at once after my dad handed me a cup of coffee on a visit and said, "You do NOT want to drink THAT!"
Load More Replies... Some of these things really don't matter at all. I also find all the knife comments annoying. If your knife cuts your food to your satisfaction, then why does it matter? Not everyone needs to have some professional set of expensive knives to make good food.
I mean, I get having cheap knives. I do. I've lived with them most of my life, and I turned out alright. But you need👏 to👏 sharpen👏 them! 👏👏 I don't care if you use one of those cheap handheld drag-it-through things or a whetstone, just sharpen your damn knives! It's safer, easier to use, and faster! And no, the honing stick doesn't count, but use that too.
Load More Replies... I just love all these bored panda lists that have the same thing repeated in it multiple times and they'll title it something like 30 great tips and it's really 22 different tips and 1 tip repeated 8 times
And, actually, as it turns out, like1actual tip and 40 entries where people are just bïtching to feel superior.
Load More Replies... Yea although some are legit complaints, some of these stuff are just people being a d**k because they think they know something around the kitchen. Like "not cleaning as i go". Wth, i clean after i finish cooking. I don't splash dirty sink water into my food. Or those snobby people with their fancy knifes and pans, it doesn't even have to be the money. Some people don't have access to quality products. You're telling me they all don't eat proper? Nonsense. Awful, BP.
Dear God... the salt/no-salt cults are as bad as the political ones here. Forget medical reasons, people seem to be personally offended if someone disagrees. Example: unless my pasta is plain or in a VERY mild sauce, I cannot tell any difference so why waste salt by adding it?
If you like me, reads cookbooks from history - for example Hanna Glass "The Complete Art Of Cookery (late 18'th century), you soon realise that meassuring salt and seasoning is a rather new thing. Even in the 1800's it often said something like "salt and seasoning to taste". Leaving you to guesstimate how much to put in the food. It was not even a sure thing they listed all the herbs/spices you were supposed to out in the pan.
I love historical cooking! Erik, have you seen Townsends? https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson
Load More Replies... I've got beefs with some of the salt comments. Yes, salt your food while cooking and taste as you go, etc, but Americans really do eat way too much salt. Whenever I get back from an international trip everything here tastes so salty in comparison. And don't even get me started on Chicago, even a 4 star restaurant there was inedibly salty.
The other side of this is that some people unknowingly over-salt as a way to intuitively self-treat medical issues (like problems with electrolytic balance and low blood pressure). I have had an autonomic disorder for 35 years that causes my blood pressure to.drop to dangerously low levels (50/30, 60/40), and my electrolytic balance is constantly out of whack (I've even had a heart attack because of it). So I always craved and ate tons of salt to help counter it AfterI was properl diagnosed, I was told that I SHOULD be eating 6-7 gr of salt a day--which I often would--just to counter the impact of having a dysfunctional autonomic nervous system. It's the most effective treatment for low blood pressure and electrolytic imbalance bc it doesn't cause many side effects. People have always joked about how much salt I eat. Better than having another heart attack or alway passing out when I stand, though..like many people who constantly crave salt but don't know why. Intuitive eating.
Load More Replies... Salt AND oil go in the pasta water. Neither of those are for flavor! The salt is to raise the boiling point of water, and the oil is to help prevent foaming and boiling over. Learn your sh!t, people! (Edit) AND FFS, if you drink or cook with fluoridated tap water, use regular **iodized** salt on your food.
You only add oil to pasta water if you're stunned. It leaves a coating on the pasta and then the sauce doesn't stick. Also, people add oil so the pasta doesn't stick together, nothing to do with foaming? Lol Never use oil for pasta unless you don't want the sauce to stick
Load More Replies... What's wrong with a glass cutting board? I don't have one I'm just genuinely asking. I always thought they were "better" because wood soaks up juices which always seemed unsanitary to me. I have a wood one because it was handed down to me and I just never bought another, but still what's with the hatred of glass?
Brrrr shudder. The sound alone gives me the w*****s ... Get a plastic one.
Load More Replies... I hope salt it properly in some of these points mean salt it properly and not the far more common: I can't taste the salt in your food because my taste buds allready commited suicide!
People, that are too aware of everything considered as healthy and unhealthy food and always annoy you or try to teach you like you dont know, with their knowlege about industy and ingreediients and so on. Often, i care about organic food, sometimes there must be fastfood for pleasure. Got noting to do with inconsequency
People, that are too aware of everything considered as healthy and unhealthy food and always annoy you or try to teach you like you dont know, with their knowlege about industy and ingreediients and so on. Often, i care about organic food, sometimes there must be fastfood for pleasure. Got notjing to do with inconsequency
My in-laws are salters, they use an obscene amount of salt while cooking, and then salt it again at the table, the first few times I ate with them I was awestruck
To everyone that answered my glass cutting board question... thank you :) I get it now.
Growing up in a major metropolitan area and moving to Appalachia, I was surprised how many people ONLY fry their vegetables, steaks, potatoes etc, and ONLY in lard, and only deep fry chicken. My wife was talking to a couple of women about cooking and she told them that she doesn't fry anything, and doesn't cook with lard. The women looked at her with puzzled faces and asked her how she cooks ANYTHING? She tried to explain how we sautéed foods, baked and grilled meats etc, and they looked at her like she stepped off a UFO. A lot of people around here cook everything to "well done" PLUS, including seafood. When my wife explained how we season food, things like adding Feta cheese and veggies to scrambled eggs, or hot sauce to things, they, like a lot of people around here, just said ""We don't like seasoning on our food. Besides, if I don't fix it like my mother in law did, my husband won't eat it."
All the ones adding heaps of salt to their foods. Your palate simply SUCKS
These are some good tips. Someone should collect them, put them down on paper, bind the paper up, and sell it. I'd bet they could make a lot of money.
People who insist on peeling everything. It can turn a quick prep time into a long one. As long as the peel is edible, leave it on.
I really don't care for skins in my mashed potatoes or on my fries.
Load More Replies... Have a sibling who cooks everything to mush, then wonders why no one eats at her house.
