People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time
People can argue about food, its preparation and the best combinations until the end of time. Somehow we all are born with different taste buds and there are people who like and dislike identical foods, so if you think about it, such a discussion is kind of pointless.
But it still goes on as Redditor heystarbuckslover asks “What are some foods that most people have been eating the wrong way or not the way it was intended?” Most people interpreted the question a bit differently and actually told the weirdest and rarest ways they eat food or someone else does.
Whether they answered the question directly or were talking about what they personally were eating wrong, this list of people’s mistakes may be viewed as educational or even inspirational if any of these wrong ways sound delicious to you.
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My dad believes steak should be well done. And by well done, unseasoned shoe leather.
Growing up I never could fathom why anyone loved steaks, and why they were such an 'expensive treat' at the house.
My dad would buy these beautiful, thick cut rib eyes, then toss them on the flaming grill with no seasoning, cook them on one side for seven minutes, flip, then other side, till they had shrank half their size and were charred. Then he would berate us for using sauce because 'it covered up the flavor of the meat'.
No Scott, your inability to cook on a grill covers the flavor.
It wasn't until I was 18 and living on my own that I tried to grill my own.
Seasoned with garlic powder and salt, flipped on the flaming grill often and buttered between flips, taken off when I was tired of waiting, I had my first medium rare steak that melted in my mouth.
I have never let my father 'cook' me another steak since.
"No Scott, your inability to cook on a grill covers the flavor." Oh, wow. I don't know who got burned worse: Scott or the steak.
I suppose it's a matter of preference, but I worked many years in a lab for our national food safety authority. Let me tell you, I'd never touch any meat or fish that hasn't been fully cooked throughout.
I've said it before, I think people mix up well done and over done. A well done steak is still flavorful and juicy. An overdone steak is a dry piece of leather
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IMHO, well done steak is like eating a warm wet piece of wood. I will die on this hill.
That's how my mom cooked them because "that's how your father likes it". No mom, just no. He likes it well done and enjoys the char; he does not like chewing leather. I like my steaks rare (thanks to my best friend who introduced me to it) but you can cook a well done steak that has char and IS juicy. Granted it will not be as juicy as rarer temps but still juicy
As long as they aren't forcing you to eat them, I think people should get over the way others eat their steak. I mean, when I was growing up our steak was always well done, because that's the only way my dad would eat it but I'm not going to judge him for liking it that way. When my stepdad came into the picture he would ridicule everyone for not liking rare/med-rare steak. I preferred med-rare but now don't eat steak at all because I don't like meals where meat is the main ingredient, but to each his own.
With a ribeye, I wanna toss it on the grill, slap it's a*s with a spatula, flip it, do the same thing then ride it out of the kitchen!
Please be careful. You might not like overcooked meat, but from undercooked meat, you may get a tapeworm infection. Meat inspection cannot completely prevent it, it only decreases the likelihood of getting parasites. The people who inspect the meat, can see only its surface, and they have little time to inspect a piece of meat. Beef tapeworm is not dangerous, but pork and fish tapeworms are dangerous to humans (pork meat can also carry trichinella).
My theory is if you have to cover up the real flavor of the steak with tons of seasoning the you either can't cook or you got a bad cut of meat. Yet, I have to add that back in the day meat wasn't always safe to eat unless over cooked. So, yes parents or grandparents had to overcook meats.
The description of how to cook a steak properly is making me drool. That is EXACTLY how I cook my steak with the exception that I don't flip it more than 2 or 3 times.
What this guy is describing is not "well done", it's burned. There is a difference. But I'd definitely take the burned version over medium rare any day. The idea of eating meat that far undercooked turns my stomach. As several other people have mentioned, if you get food poisoning from that, you'll have plenty of time to rethink while you're in the bathroom shooting out of both ends.
There is a portion of the populace that actually have a religious thing against any meat not well done because you would be ingesting blood. Then there's the group who are worried about food poisoning. They should just stay away from steak.
Very cheap steak needs to be cooked pretty well-done to be edible. An excellent quality one can be rare and (if sliced thin) absolute perfection.
My heart sunk when I saw show leather ribeyes. So glad you learned how to cook them. I do mine in a very hot cast iron. Salt and pepper only while cooking. Only flip once. Then a little butter at the end. Damn, now I want to go buy some ribeyes
Scott??? My Dad is a Scott...and he burnt the hell out of everything he cooked on a grill!
i adore my daughter in law and my grandson. my son, in fact, our entire family always eats steak rare. even our pork is cooked to proper temp because it remains juicy but well done for safety. whenever i cook beef on the grill in any form i always have to make sure hers and my grandson's are well done. i admit that i will pull them a little early so they basically look well done but not dry. to each his own, i guess. but, for me...i remember there was a line in a movie called the cowboy way. when asked how he wanted it the character said: knock it's horns off, wipe it's nasty a*s, walk it across the grill and lay it on the plate.
I didn't like pork chops or steak growing up until I had other people make it for me other than my parents. They were afraid of worms and diseases and overcooked it every single time.
I love them rare. Take it off the grill at 120 f. Yumm, very tender very tasty. I've had them this way for many years.
Sounds Exactly how my father used to eat it...when it's leather, turn it one more time, then it's ready...
I'm a Super-taster, so must have very little seasoning on most foods. And I prefer medium-well...it's just a matter of taste buds and personal preference. The mistake this father made was not considering the different preferences of the members of his family. There is a reason restaurants ask how you want your steak cooked.
Well, I have tried medium rare... I still prefer well done. I can't stand the taste of rare meat.
My grandma, who was usually an amazing cook, beat steak into submission with a metal tenderizer, covered it in flour, put in a pan of hot grease, then made gravy in the pan. Horrible greasy, gravy shoe leather. Youck.
Kind of like when the military tries to cook a steak and their manual says it must be well done. In the Navy I would beg for underdone steaks, something with pink and moisture in it.
Same thing happened to me with my mom & dad who would both cook meat until it was charred. My mother would even burn the pancakes. When I was 18 and moved, I finally had my first medium rare steak.
Yeah, I actually thought I hated meat as a kid, and didn't realize until I was an adult that my mom was just a terrible cook. At least it got me to eat my vegetables. It was either that or starve.
That's exactly how it was when I was growing up. All meat was cooked under the grill (Americans would say broiled) until you couldn't chew it. I literally could not chew it soft enough to swallow. Eventually I just stopped eating red meat. Then I became anaemic. Shocker.
As a former server I noticed that folks that order well done steak tips less
Preseason and soak the steaks for a while in the refrigerator and they will be even more succulent!
My father's Dutch so he had his steak blue and I learned to like it this way even though my mother was horrified (she is not Dutch and likes hers barely pink in the middle). I taught my daughter to enjoy blue steak as well. When she was very young wait staff could never believe that this little blonde girl wanted a blue steak. They must have reported back to the kitchen because a couple of times the chef came out to meet her!
Okay, so this is more along the lines of me eating a certain dish the wrong way, but when I was little my mom would make french toast except she would put chilies, onions and sometimes chicken on it. I grew up thinking french toast was a savory dish until I ordered it at a diner and it was sweet. I still like my mom’s version of french toast better tbh.
My grandfather enjoys eating lightly salted peaches with mayonnaise. If you didnt know there was a wrong way to eat a peach, now you know.
My dad served us underripe fruit my entire childhood because to him firm = good and soft = bad. The first time I had a mango that was actually ripe I was an adult and the experience was borderline orgasmic.
You have to devein shrimp, or else you're eating their poop.
Someone told me "You don't want to know" when I asked what the black thing they were taking out. I assumed it was a parasite and have avoided shrimp since. I can deal with it being a vein and pooper now.
I eat Kiwis with the hairy skin on. My mom said I seemed to like it so she wasn't going to stop me. Later on I find out that I'm a freak of nature for doing it, but I still eat it that way because I just like it. The only downside is that since I like the texture of the hair and skin, I have "forbidden fruit" moments when I'm looking at the abdomen of a tarantula.
Nothing wrong with it. I've been eating them with the skin on for years. It's good for you and actually nice.
Recently read where people were **eating the f*****g wax** on Babybel cheeses and I haven't been the same since
Don't eat the wax. Save it up and make tiny candles for your garden gnomes.
There was a comment a long time ago from a guy who found out in adulthood that you aren't supposed to eat the cupcake wrappers when someone looked horrified when he ate it.
To everyone who eats spaghetti with a little itty bitty smidge of sauce at the top with the rest completely dry and white: Atone or be banned from cooking forever.
I eat my spaghetti covered in butter and parmesan cheese, the sauce is in a separate bowl covered in cheese was well. I eat the sauce like soup.
When I first ate edamame I chewed up the entire pod and couldn't figure out why people enjoyed eating them. I did't realize you're just supposed to eat the bean inside the pod.
*Not peas in a pod. Beans.
Whoops. I've also eaten the pods. I figured it the beans were supposed to be shelled, they already would be.
My buddy's step dad puts sugar in his f*****g mac and cheese. Sometimes I think about it and I can't sleep
I'm going to assume there's already sugar in KD considering Spaghetti-os puts sugar in their sauce.
It's not traditional to eat Thai food with chopsticks. They use a fork and a tablespoon. Stop asking for chopsticks in Thai restaurants.
The Thai people who run restaurants in my town are incredibly hospitable, adaptable, and good-hearted. They know that people are going to ask for chopsticks, and although that's not part of their culture, they give them to those who ask. They also hand out fortune cookies.
Not others but I don't take Oreos apart and lick the frosting off first, I just bite into them like a savage.
[A man once sued a restaurant in Miami for serving him an artichoke which he promptly ate all of.] I don't mean like "he finished the artichoke" - I mean that this guy, who apparently is a *Doctor*, just ate the entire f*****g thing, including all of the inedible parts.
For those of you who have never encountered an Artichoke, the edible part of the plant is a fleshy substance that is on the inside parts of the leaves. You scrape it off and eat that part and discard the leaves. The artichoke heart, at the middle of all of the leaves, is also edible (and delicious). The stem and the fibrous leaves are not edible. Well I guess except to this guy.
As far as vegetables go, artichokes are indeed delicious, but they take the most amount of work for the least amount of return.
This is really relevant to me today, because I just found out that my girlfriend has been buying smoked salmon for years then cooking it!
You're supposed to wait for the pizza rolls to cool down BEFORE you put them in your mouth, not after while you're doing the dragon breath thing trying not to let them touch your tongue
Ladies and gentlemen of Reddit. Do what ever you’d like behind closed doors, but please remember if you’re eating a banana in public it’s banana to mouth. Not mouth to banana.
If you steam brussel sprouts and also dont salt and pepper them of course you dont like them. They need to be charred and on the brink of almost burnt for them to be good. Olive oil salt and pepper in a 450 degree oven cut in half, cook for 10 to 15 minutes.
Fatty bacon in a pan til it starts to brown, add halved sprouts, toss around until they start to brown on the edges, then devour while hiding them from your children.
My friend eats popcorn by picking the fluffy parts away from each piece and discarding the “seed” center. Every time i tel him hes an idiot but hes too stubborn to just eat a damn piece of popcorn like a human
Some of these people are getting criticized for eating too much fiber; some are getting criticized for eating too little. Rock on with your fluff-eating self, friend.
For me, it was crackers with any sort of topping until my wife showed me the error of my ways.
I would always put cheese, or whatever spread I might be eating with the crackers on the top i.e. salty side of the cracker. My wife lost her ever loving mind when she saw me do this. She then proceeded to explain to me that I should turn the cracker over and put the spread, cheese, or whatever on the bottom so that the salty side would hit my tongue when I put the bite in my mouth.
It was a revelation.
Ya seen these taco lickers? You heard of these guys? Yeah, well there are these people out there, and I don't know who raised them or how they turned out the way they did, but they eat their tacos middle-out. They dip their heads down to their tacos and lick out all the insides first, then eat the soggy shell afterwards. Sometimes they don't even eat the shell. I can't take my kids out to the Taqueria anymore because of these freaks. I don't want my little girls to become taco lickers. It's just not natural and I will not have any taco lickers living under the roof of my house!
OK, but if we learned anything from Kevin Bacon in "Footloose," it's that restrictive measures often make kids rebel. Don't come crying to us when your kids run off to lick tacos in a commune in Montana!
My grandpa would peel a green apple using this nifty little device, then salt it and put it on a stick and give it to me
This seems less like a snack and more like a arcane ritual for summoning an A24 horror version of Johnny Appleseed.
Ginger with Sushi. You're actually supposed to eat the ginger slices between eating the rolls of sushi so as to cleanse the palate.
Although, personally I love putting ginger and Wasabi on my sushi roll then eating it in one bite.
Anybody else love eating all the ginger at the end? It's like a tiny dessert.
people can make their basic ramen taste a bit better, open the packet, take out the seasoning, and set it aside, cook the ramen just in the water, after its cooked drain the water leaving only a tiny tiny amount, pour some more out you still have too much, just a little, and add the seasoning and mix it at that point, it actually flavors the noodles themselves and makes em taste much better
I cook the noodles in the broth, toss the broth, and then just eat the noodles.
Vegemite. As an American I was tricked into eating some as a sandwich and was convinced it was just a food meant to prank people with. An Australian friend was alarmed when I recounted this and corrected the method for me.
"Oh GOD no, you don't eat it as a sandwich! You've gotta get yourself a nice piece of toast, spread a good layer of butter on it, then just the tiniest scrape of Vegemite over that. And if you can get a slice of cheap processed cheese on there, even better! Please please don't dismiss Vegemite until you give it another go."
This same friend introduced me to TimTams AND the TimTam slam, so who was I not to trust her implicitly?? I took her advice, and I'm glad I did. Ended up buying myself a little jar because dang, that's a nice little savory punch if you use it right!
It might have been said already, but I got tired of scrolling.
I don't know if it's "most", but I know it's fairly common to rinse off your pasta after you drain the water. Don't do that.
Also, cooking the pasta until it sticks to a wall means you over cooked it.
I've read plenty of ways "to make your pasta better" but those two simple things are the only ones that really made any difference to me.
The issue is this - once I pour the al dente pasta into the colander to drain, it's still cooking. If I leave it there for 5 mins while readying my sauce or whatever, it gets too soft. Rinsing lowers the temp of the pasta so it stops cooking and my al dente stays al dente. Am I missing something?
I don't know about most people, but growing up I always thought I hated guavas because they were so dry. Turns out, my parents used to cut out the best part--the fleshy seedy inside-- and serve me the dry rinds...
Edit: since a lot of the comments are confused, I'd like to clear a few things up.
My parents would cut out where the seeds are and eat the green part + the white parts where there are no seeds. not sure if that's fully the rind; I guess the easiest way to compare it is with a watermelon: it's like cutting away the red flesh and eating the skin + white part. no, my parents don't hate me (maybe for other reasons) because I've seen them throw away the seeds. we are Vietnamese and my parents prefer the dry, crunchy texture with some chili salt and think the seeds cause constipation.
I guy goes into the doctor with lettuce in his hair, carrots sticking out of his ears and beans in his nose. He says despondently, "Doctor, what's wrong with me?" Doc says "Well first of all, you are not eating right."
Not many people know but you are supposed to remove the membrane that is on the bottom of a rack of ribs before you cook them. It makes them easier to cut and eat.
If you eat salmon to have a healthy meal, it's more beneficial to leave the skin on... just fry it with some salt/pepper until it's crispy.
Or give the skin to your dog, who will greet this gift with zoomies and joy.
Up until a couple of years ago (22 currently) I thought you were supposed to bite the skin off the apple then eat it.
If I didn't have a knife I would spend my time biting around the entire apple, spitting the skin out, then eating it.
Most people eat the skin of an apple. It's odd that someone would peel it off with their teeth.
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Fettuccine Alfredo. Stop with the jar of white goop. It's 3 ingredients. Butter, cheese and noodles.
No no no no. Whipping cream, unsalted butter, and shredded Parmesan cheese.
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When I eat fried chicken I peel off as much of the skin as I can, set it aside, eat everything else, then the skin.
My takeaway from all this: people eat things differently. Not incorrectly, just differently.
If I want to eat wax with my cheese or ginger with my sushi that's my business nobody else's. Why does anyone care how another person eats food it's none of your business.
I mix the ginger, the soy sauce and the wassbi all together and just dip the roll in - I don't care if someone thinks that is wrong, I like it that way. Just enjoy what you eat!
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I'm sharing this one for my dad because he doesn't have boredpanda: when he was a kid, he regularly ate those maruchan noodles that came in a little bag. expect he didn't cook them, he sprinkled the powder you put in the broth on the top and ate them dry.
Applesauce. I grew up in the south (USA) and my mama would peel and cut apples and cook them down to mush and flavor with sugar, vanilla, molasses etc. Then she would serve it hot. It was a side dish that could also be dessert if so desired. I was in college when someone offered me applesauce - it was cold and flavorless. I was disgusted, but apparently eating bland cold 'sauce' from apples is a thing.
I like applesauce both warm or cold, I don’t peel the apples when I make it though they just get a good scrub then chopped up, and the only flavouring it needs imo is cinnamon!
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My grandmother would put sugar on bananas but eat lemons without any. Her sister ate Saltines soda crackers slathered with petroleum jelly.
My grandfather used to eat graham crackers by breaking them into pieces and shoving them in a glass of milk until soggy... It always grossed me out as a kid.
Upvote for grandpa, following a time-honored tradition. Well, kind of. You want to dip in the milk and leave in until it soaks up some of the milk but can still be lifted out (by the dry end) and bitten. Repeat until all gone.
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Stupid food rules. Who cares? The only time I care is when I'm eating something.
Sometimes my dad will put dry cerial into a tall, plastic cup, and then pound it to dust with a wooden spoon. Then he'll just sit there and knock back the powder.
When I was a kid, I used to eat just the skin of chicken lollipops and leave the rest of the meat to my family.
Fettuccine Alfredo. Stop with the jar of white goop. It's 3 ingredients. Butter, cheese and noodles.
No no no no. Whipping cream, unsalted butter, and shredded Parmesan cheese.
Load More Replies... When I eat fried chicken I peel off as much of the skin as I can, set it aside, eat everything else, then the skin.
My takeaway from all this: people eat things differently. Not incorrectly, just differently.
If I want to eat wax with my cheese or ginger with my sushi that's my business nobody else's. Why does anyone care how another person eats food it's none of your business.
I mix the ginger, the soy sauce and the wassbi all together and just dip the roll in - I don't care if someone thinks that is wrong, I like it that way. Just enjoy what you eat!
Load More Replies... I'm sharing this one for my dad because he doesn't have boredpanda: when he was a kid, he regularly ate those maruchan noodles that came in a little bag. expect he didn't cook them, he sprinkled the powder you put in the broth on the top and ate them dry.
Applesauce. I grew up in the south (USA) and my mama would peel and cut apples and cook them down to mush and flavor with sugar, vanilla, molasses etc. Then she would serve it hot. It was a side dish that could also be dessert if so desired. I was in college when someone offered me applesauce - it was cold and flavorless. I was disgusted, but apparently eating bland cold 'sauce' from apples is a thing.
I like applesauce both warm or cold, I don’t peel the apples when I make it though they just get a good scrub then chopped up, and the only flavouring it needs imo is cinnamon!
Load More Replies... My grandmother would put sugar on bananas but eat lemons without any. Her sister ate Saltines soda crackers slathered with petroleum jelly.
My grandfather used to eat graham crackers by breaking them into pieces and shoving them in a glass of milk until soggy... It always grossed me out as a kid.
Upvote for grandpa, following a time-honored tradition. Well, kind of. You want to dip in the milk and leave in until it soaks up some of the milk but can still be lifted out (by the dry end) and bitten. Repeat until all gone.
Load More Replies... Stupid food rules. Who cares? The only time I care is when I'm eating something.
Sometimes my dad will put dry cerial into a tall, plastic cup, and then pound it to dust with a wooden spoon. Then he'll just sit there and knock back the powder.
When I was a kid, I used to eat just the skin of chicken lollipops and leave the rest of the meat to my family.
