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.
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?
I think it's more about them doing it immediately without trying it "plain", thus implying it can't be good without that sauce.
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I always take the first bite of something the way it was presented as a sign of respect for what they made. We may like different seasonings and sauces, but I'm gonna try what you made before I alter it to my tastes
There we go. I always request they try it first as is, and honestly critique please!, and then do whatever they prefer. I'm not so dependent on other's praise that I need them to only enjoy it my way. I absolutely LOVE A1, and acidic ketchups for some things, and I'm hardly gonna fault someone else for having similar tastes!
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Reminds me of my husband. I made a really nice dish, first meal together, before trying it he put salt on it... like alot of salt. So i decided I'd fix that... the next meal, oversalted the hell out of his portion only so when he added salt he thought he oversalted it. He stopped salting before trying it after that.... now that he actually tries it he doesn't add more usually. I minimally salt which is why I think he assumed he should add salt but I cook with alot of other spices so the food is very flavourful.
Woulda been really hard to just communicate instead of messing with the food because he didn't "eat it right", eh?
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I remember inviting a boyfriend while in HS to dinner and my mom had made a prime rib roast with horseradish sauce. He asked for catsup. The look on the faces of my siblings and parents was priceless. My mom of course was gracious and got it for him. He later confessed he had never had it before and thought it would be like a tough steak. Nope.
Make a perfect Rib-eye and some heathen pours ketchup on it... Never come back to my house for dinner ever! And if it's a date... no second date for you! LOL
My uncle does this with prime rib. This is why he's been exiled to the other room some holidays so I don't have to watch.
If I cooked a roast for someone and they asked for tomato sauce they simply wouldn't get it.
I agree. It's insensitive to the value of a roast and the whole cooking process.
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My BIL grills some amazing steaks, & makes his own dry rub & is legit amazing. Don't need any BBQ sauce or anything with it, it is so good. He doesn't even have any BBQ sauce in his house, & considers it rude to ruin good steak with it. We gone to his house for a family dinner, & he always cuts & serves the steaks, to make sure everyone gets enough. My younger sister went to get her plate, & asked where the BBQ sauce was, hadn't even tried the steak yet, & when he said he didn't have any, she said she only eats steak with BBQ sauce. It was SO quiet. Even 2 & 4 year olds were quiet. So then, he scraped the cut steak off her plate, back onto the cutting board & told her to move along. She was SO pissed. She looked at me, thinking I'd say or do something. I scraped her steak off the cutting board onto my plate & proceeded to eat it 3 pieces at a time while staring her n the eye. She scoffed & stomped off & missed dinner. Asked 2g2 McD on way home, I laughed said Nope & drove straight home
I LOVE a bit of viciousness to ungrateful eaters who use cook bashing as a dig.. I am known by many to be an amazing cook. During a fight in 2006, my husband proclaim to ALL including my extended family that he hated my cooking, always preferred my mother's cooking (especially a certain version of a dish) you could have heard a pen drop. Finally, my sister (also an amazing cook)told my husband that for the last 20 years or so, all food at family get togethers was cooked by his wife (as voted unanimously by the chefs and cooks of the family) ESPECIALLY THAT DISH. He looked like a fool, but not to worry. From the Thanksgiving in 2006 to the end of 2018, I refused to cook for him. No matter how he begged or tried to make amends, we ate out if he was home..to the tune of over 40k each year. I only cooked on Holidays and for my kids' birthdays when they specified their meals. AS for his birthday, I always took his order for his dream meal then tried to book us at a restaurant.
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Yes. Or steak sauce. I am, by all accounts, a great cook. Early in our marriage, I lovingly made a prime rib roast for my new husband. I put so much care and attention into that super expensive roast. As soon as I had it out of the oven, he was cutting into it and THEN pulled out a bottle of Heinz 57 that I had no idea we had (because I'd never buy that crap). I have to admit, when I saw him pouring half the bottle on a beautifully slow-roasted, perfectly prepared and seasoned prime rib, being newly married, I thought, "I've may have made a terrible mistake."
Why'd you provide cheap, crappy tomato sauce or did they bring their own?!
I to, need some kind of sauce for all types of meat/poultry. I don't like the taste of meat.. I'm allergic to seafood and the others not allergic to I think is disgusting. veggies (minus maybe 3 or 4 types) I think are disgusting, so there's nothing left for me to eat. I usually take a piece of the meat & mix it with whatever else is on my plate (to help cover up the natural flavoring) if that works then great, but if not, my apologies, but some type of sauce will be on my plate. Even a stew, I dip the meat in ketchup then eat the other stuff. Meatloaf, dipped in ketchup. Steak/pork chops, covered in A1 steak sauce. 😋
You are lucky! Think MIL who insists she "couldn't eat another bite" of the meal you served her (wasting so much food!) and then brings out the crappy cake she bought for desert and tucks into that!
HAHAHA! My ex took me, my Mother, sister & new boyfriend out for a Mother's Day Dinner several years back - 1991, I think. The boyfriend asked for KETCHUP for his prime rib ($26.95). My husband almost had a heart attack & this redneck couldn't understand why it was so offensive. Next time, just order a hamburger - clueless.
I made homemade pasta and a bolognese sauce for my Colombian ex-wife, and when I served it, she went to the fridge and squirted ketchup all over it. I was appalled! She hadn't even tasted it! When I asked why, she said that's the way she liked it. I never went out of my way again. I cooked for myself, and let her do her own thing.
I almost always try a few bites of something new or at a new restaurant before I add anything. Like a steak. First I want to know what its like on it's own. Does it even need the extra. Then I add things just to experience the next layer of flavor. Some times it's not needed. I treat it like an adventure.
I've done that for years! It was the joke in my family. My tastes are much broader now with mint sauce or relish with lamb roast, or spicy apricot with pork or chicken mmmmmmmm
As a companion of mine once told me, ketchup is a bandaid for flavor. I always try things plain first and when I cook I try to make condiments unnecessary.
Most roast meals have gravy added to it. If you didnt make gravy maybe they were hinting something.
I made my dad a delicious burger with mushrooms and a creamy sauce. I was so excited cuz I thought it would taste amazing. He gets it and starts smashing it into pieces and then douses the whole things in ketchup. Waaaay too much ketchup. I yelled at him then cried. I was SHOCKED. No way can you taste anything but ketchup after that. It was such a slap in the face.
Actually the majority of the people have rather rudimentary palate. The basic tastes mixed the right way would pass as good food. They cannot couple the sensation of taste with smell and differentiate well made dishes with the premade variety. This is why condiments are such a popular thing to have at the dinner table. It's them not you.
Ieeee. Why was catsup ever invented? Well it wasn't to put on a roast, steak or Chili.
Same goes for ketchup. I can't stand ketchup and it makes me feel sick when I see people pouring it over food. The smell, to me, is disgusting. Do it to your own food if you want, but why do you have to ruin the food I made?
Because it is going in your mouth, not theirs. I try hard not to let it bother me. After over 40 years of watching how others can hatchet job a meal (I am a saucier so imagine what it is like to have a fine sauce or gravy ignored) I just let it go. I learned to have very basic substitute foods for certain people. Like chicken nuggets and fries.
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I honestly don't like any kind of pot roast, stew, etc. However, if it is served, I will eat it... with ketchup. I like ketchup. I use it on my eggs and certain kinds of meats. Get tf over it. I'm in my 30's, too. It adds, enhances, and, in some cases, mutes.
I have a rule in my house, try it first before you alter it, or else I'll never cook for you again.
😂😅 I am a sauce person all the way! The meat could be like butter & seasoned to perfection & I would still find the perfect sauce. I'm a veggie now but give me the best pork chop in the world & I'll dip it in applesauce 😁🤪😍
Boo hoo. Yet again proof this thread is nothing but entitled assholes. "Waaa my cooking wasn't appreciated EXACTLY THE WAY I wanted to be praised. Then don't fuxking cook for people.
Cooks mostly cook for themselves, they just share the fruits of their talent with others. But nothing is as depressing and unrewarded as a brute who cannot appreciate good food and ruins it with their brutish uneducated tastebuds.
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Any time I make a delicious dinner (and I cook for 7 ppl so it takes a long time for me. Especially since I taught myself to cook and am not a trained professional) and before even trying it my husband offers the kids ranch, ketchup, hot sauce, etc. At least let them taste it. 99% of the time they love it and don't ask for sauce.
I'm very much a "plain" eater for the most part and had a friend like this had to tell them once hey just wait try it first u might actually like it just this way (like I always taste something first to see if it "needs" anything otherwise u ruin a perfect good meal for nothing) but...... surprise surprise they did like it "plain"
My Dad put ketchup on every meat. Beef, pork, poultry. ..he even mixed it with mayo for fish! My Mom said it took her awhile to not take it personally.
My in-laws gave me some moose backstraps so we can have dinner at my house( which I never cooked before) I did my best to season it well, sear it and finally finishing it in the oven, even let it rest a few minutes before serving. Anyway, I made a really nice serving then my father in-law said; ee it's a but tough! 🤦♀️
Try cooking a beef roast in bloodymary mix. (Zing-Zang). Not a lot, just enough to cover the meat about halfway, no additional liquids, but must add other seasonings, (at least salt and pepper). You may be surprised how good it is. Tomato sauce/juice is the nostalgic way for boomers. Onion soup for pork roast.
I'm a boomer and I have no idea where you got your info from.
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Exactly how I feel I simply Love A1 sauce it's nothing to do with how it's cooked but I'm like give me some steak with my A1 sauce because it's the sauce I love even more than the steak.. But people get so butt hurt that I ask for steak sauce. It's like do you wanna tell me if I can use soap in my shower or do I have to do that plain too lol
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I wish you could see the look of shock on my face! Tom sce with a roast dinner! There isn't a dungeon deep or dark enough for a crime that heinous!
I saw Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality eating her steak with catsup.
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Once it's out of your pan and on their plate, what they do with it is none of your business. You can gently suggest it's eaten plain and keep the crapsup off the table but old habits die hard.
Nah. Add ketchup where it doesn't belong and it's off to the oubliette with the offending party.
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my husband does this it's either ketchup or hot sauce i give him a dirty look every time and no im not a bad cook which irritates me even more if i was a bad cook i wouldn't know the difference
Personally I need a fair amount of acid to eat a steak and not suffer for it. As long as it's not catsup I don't see a problem.
Red meat already has a lot of acid: arachidonic acid.
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My fiance has a habit of putting maggi on items before trying them. Try before adding anything then add away if it doesn't have a full enough flavor
My grandfather put ketchup on everything due to the fact that he was in the military service. My mom made a prime rib for Xmas one year and you guessed it, he put ketchup on it. My dad would just get livid about it.
Give me the best steak ever, I'll still eat it with a bit of ketchup on the side. No apologies. I need the 'tang' to really enjoy the meat.
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!"
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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.
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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.
