Someone In This Online Group Asked “What’s Your Stupidest Cooking Opinion So We Can All Fight About It?” And 30 People Joined The Thread
Do you also get really annoyed when someone is in the kitchen while you are cooking or cleaning up? And are horrified when people pour milk first and then put in cereal? Do you feel the urge to correct a person who seems to know what they are doing but are doing it wrong?
It seems that the kitchen attracts a lot of frustration and people can argue about food and cooking for hours. Reddit user rawlingstones know this human trait and when they posed the questions of “What’s your stupidest cooking opinion” they also added “so we can fight about it?”
The fight in the thread was pretty civilised despite some pretty controversial opinions being thrown around. Are there any in this list that you agree with? What is a food opinion that you will fight about? Let us know in the comments!
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Gold flakes on anything is f*****g stupid
Pineapple on pizza is actually quite nice and the roasted sweetness complements the salty dish.
Who downvoted this? People shouldn’t judge others for what they want on pizza, right??? It’s not their pizza, it’s that person’s. Where would you guys on BP be if I put hedgehog food on my pizza?? Plus, this person here is just complimenting something, not insulting something. People who have their own beliefs and not INSULTING something shouldn’t deserve downvotes unless what they’re saying is REALLY ridiculous.
Every part of green onions is USEABLE! The green and the white! Both! Yes! Use the whole things >:) yes!
A lot of American home cooking dessert recipes are way too sweet.
Once as a child I surprised an older lady by telling her I didn't want anymore cake because it was too sweet. If a kid thinks it's too sweet, then it's definitely too sweet.
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Fair enough but this is a bit cultural. Americans prefer everything sweet and for a European it might be 'too sweet' while for an American European baking might not be sweet enough. It all boils down to what you grew up with.
Many things are way to sweet in the USA. Fresh Orange juice for instance. Back when I was a kid in Italy, we had to put a half teaspoon of sugar in our OJ as it was as tart as grapefruit juice. Here in the US, I often add lemon juice if I squeeze oranges to give it back some tartness. They actually bred oranges to make them sweeter and sweeter. I miss the OJ I grew up with. It was also red in color because our oranges were red.
Not just dessert recipes. It seems sugar is added to many, many savoury dishes too. Bread is a prime example. A little sugar is great to help the yeast to activate, but most breads should not be sweet.
Here in Germany we have cake with less sugar than american bread.
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What’s the point of a dessert if it’s not sweet? I understand people have different taste, but there is also a lot of snobbery around sugar.
They said "Way too sweet," not "desserts are sweet." I too often find myself halving sugar in most recipes and the taste is fine.
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Yes, I've had tongue-tingling sweetness overload from bakeries, especially the ones in grocery stores!
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A lot of "American home cooking" recipes start with 'take your box and mix according to the directions, then add...' That is NOT a recipe.
I put a third to a half of the sugar amount listed in desert recipes so the sugaryness doesn't butcher the taste of other ingredients; also, very few people will notice one has added less sugar than listed in the recipe
A couple of reasons why: sugar helps baked goods retain moisture and works as a preservative.
I have a friend who uses half (or less) of the sugar normally in cream cheese frosting and you really can’t tell the difference. You just need enough so it has a sweet taste instead of just being cream cheese.
I prefer a lot of the Italian pastries, not so sweet but delicious.... mmmm want cannoli now.
I've found I prefer other countries' desserts and candies far better to the US. And if I bake, I cut the sugar drastically in US recipes and no one complains!
There's been time's I've followed US recipes (I can tell which are which because the US ones always use "cups") and I've had to reduce the amount of sugar used, and they've always turned out fine.
American food in general is way too sweet. Can't even buy a loaf of bread without it tasting like dessert!
I prefer to eliminate much of the sugar and syrup in the recipes. If it doesn't alter the outcome, I prefer the taste of the food.
Sugar is addictive. Food companies take advantage of that. Americans are conditioned to want too much sugar. And food companies also sold us on "fat is bad" --well bad for their bottom line.
You'll get me to stop using preground spices when you pry them out of my cold dead hands.
Yes!! 95% of what I cook is for me and my immediate family. I'm not going through the extra time grinding spices and herbs to make supper every night.
I hate when people leave the tails on shrimp especially in pasta dishes. Why not just remove it all?
A kitchen full of expensive appliances does not make you a good cook.
I don’t care if someone salts the food that I made them before or after trying it. As long as they enjoy it, I’m happy.
Can we stop saying "bone broth"? It's bleeping stock.
“Best by” and “sell by” dates can go f**k themselves. If it isn’t growing hair when I open the lid then it’s getting cooked to 165F and that’s money in the bank!
You can check if eggs are still fresh by putting them in a glass of water. If they sink to the bottom, they're fresh. If they stand upright or bop up and down a bit, they're still okay. You could use still them to bake a cake or make scrambled eggs or anything that completely cooks the egg. But I wouldn't use them for recipes that call for uncooked parts of the egg like royal icing or mayonnaise. If the egg is swimming on the surface of the water, toss it in the bin.
grilled cheese sandwiches should only be cut diagonally
Baking isn’t difficult, you’re just bad at following directions.
The directions: Mix the ingredients until the right consistency, but I'm going to describe the consistency in a way that includes every known substance to man, such as 'until it covers the back of the spoon'. Then bake it with an equally vague idea (between 150 and 250 degrees, for 45-75 mins), but be careful! Too hot it won't rise, too cold it wont cook, too long and it'll turn to rock, no long enough it'll collapse when you open to door. Just make sure you get the temperature and timing perfect!!!!!
Pre-minced jarred garlic is fine and you can pry the Costco sized jar of it out of my cold dead hands on this hill I've chosen to die on.
I chop garlic but I've tasted the jarred garlic and it tastes different, it's also not as strong as fresh garlic.
People who are super bougie and refuse to eat mayo because it's "gross", but will then gobble up a trough of aioli if a brunch place puts in front of them are the absolute worst and can f**k right the hell off. It's fancy mayo, b***h. Get over yourself.
Classic Aioli does not even contain mayo, nor does it contain any egg or vinegar. It consists purely of garlic and olive oil, sometimes with some grains of salt or pepper. That being said, mayo itself is not gross, either. The gross part is to combine it with foods it is not suitable to be paired with. I love mayo on fries but can't stand it in salads.
Sweet potatoes are better when prepared savory.
But it’s also good with a little bit of salt and then just plain steamed. Which still counts as sweet, right? Right?
I've never eaten a dish that was made better by truffle oil.
Overwhelming taste and smell. Used solely to add 20% to the price of the dish
If it’s actually real truffle oil and not that fake stuff, it makes homemade mac and cheese absolutely divine!
Using fresh tomatoes for a tomato sauce is a waste of time. Stop being bougie and used canned.
Unless you have a garden and a surplus of tomatoes.
Generations have been brainwashed into thinking they cannot bake a cake or make brownies or muffins or macaroni and cheese without a box mix.
Wrapping things in bacon is the best way to ruin any food. Welcome to this stringy wet meat blanket that only tastes like floppy ding ding and not like what you tried to put it on to begin with.
Bacon has a prominent flavor. It's going to be star of whatever you put it in so let it be crisp and delicious and not an accurate representation of your uncle's soggy love for you.
AKA STOP WRAPPING BACON AROUND THINGS
I think maybe YES I agree, but I fry the bacon first and dry it out (and the food it’s gonna be wrapped with) so it isn’t soggy. I thought that was… normal?
You must used overnight refrigerated rice to make good chinese fried rice.
Dividing fillings for sandwiches between two slices of bread first and then flipping it together don't make sense (unless they are viscous enough like PB&J) . Just pile it all on one slice and top it off with the last slice so things don't fall out
Greek yogurt is not a reasonable swap in all the recipes where you would usually use sour cream.
Red onions are really purple and they are only suitable for cold or room temperature food preparations.
Much of Trader Joe's frozen food offerings are delicious and nutritious. They are not examples of insipid cultural appropriation.
Can't stand the term "cultural appropriation". Why aren't the same people slinging that around bashing all the "non-western" people wearing "western style" clothes? The rest of the world needs to stop wearing jeans, tee-shirts, and western suits. Also, stop listening to western/American music. I find it offensive. And since one person, ME, finds it offensive EVERYONE should stop doing it. This was sarcasm by the way.
Garlic presses *aren’t* all that bad. Yes, sometimes there’s no use for them and I do hate single use devices, but they have their purpose.
They are not bad at all... as long as you clean them after each use.
This is my favourite reddit thread and pomegranate seeds are s**t.
Simply mixing everything together at once for baking rather than mixing dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately is good enough most the time.
I cannot make a burger as good as ones in my favorite restaurants so burgers are exclusively going out foods, not cook at home foods.
you can use a lot more salt than people normally do and still not taste it. i see people pinching salt onto their steaks, while i sprinkle that s**t on every square inch. makes meat super tender and its great for flavor.. use more salt.
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Salting the water when boiling veg. It makes NO difference. Veg is fine just boiled. The only time it makes a difference is when you over salt then you have ruined, salty veg. I like my heart healthy, I am not going to add unnecessary salt to my food.
If I'm not crazy about a food, perhaps I might someday encounter some way of preparing it that is surprisingly tasty. But if dislike it so much that you've learned that I dislike it, don't tell me I haven't tried it like the way you're trying to feed it to me.
It's a shame some (not all) Americans are getting so uptight about anything they perceive as criticism of their culture and have to downvote comments as a result. Commenting on behaviour is not bashing and not bullying. Brits can laugh at their own eccentricities and some of the very defensive Americans on this post could learn a lesson from that. (Waiting for the downvotes from those people now...)
Lashing out at foreigners who bash our culture is one of the only things we Americans can agree on anymore. Can't you lime eating bastards let us have anything?
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Salting the water when boiling veg. It makes NO difference. Veg is fine just boiled. The only time it makes a difference is when you over salt then you have ruined, salty veg. I like my heart healthy, I am not going to add unnecessary salt to my food.
If I'm not crazy about a food, perhaps I might someday encounter some way of preparing it that is surprisingly tasty. But if dislike it so much that you've learned that I dislike it, don't tell me I haven't tried it like the way you're trying to feed it to me.
It's a shame some (not all) Americans are getting so uptight about anything they perceive as criticism of their culture and have to downvote comments as a result. Commenting on behaviour is not bashing and not bullying. Brits can laugh at their own eccentricities and some of the very defensive Americans on this post could learn a lesson from that. (Waiting for the downvotes from those people now...)
Lashing out at foreigners who bash our culture is one of the only things we Americans can agree on anymore. Can't you lime eating bastards let us have anything?
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