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.
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.
NO! My pet hate. Chefs saying a pinch of salt then dumping a fistful of salt all over the dish.
I've noticed that too. "Just a pinch of salt," they say, making the dish look like Dandruff Man shook his head over it.
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Salt is a lot healthier than people make it out to be. Some of the first civilizations arose around, yes, rivers, but not just any rivers. Rivers near large natural deposits of salt. Humans need salt. We're persistance hunters, with no sharp teeth or claws, and yet we became the top predator because we have one advantage over other animals: our sweat glands. We could run after animals, and they'd get away, because we're slow and pathetic, but we'd keep coming, and they'd have to run away again until they overheated and couldn't run anymore. Humans have always needed salt. The only reason people started saying salt is bad for you is because it can raise blood pressure. That's because it helps your body retain fluid, which you need. Fluid is a good thing with very rare exception. If a person's blood pressure is high, there are already other things going on that need to be worked on. The salt in itself isn't the problem.
I'm totally with you on that. I have hypertension but also my salt levels are extremely low. My doctor says I should worry about the salt first, as that can be life threatening.
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Maybe on meat, but it's not healthy to eat too much salt. I notice most processed foods, are way too salty.
Salt is only unhealthy if you have high blood pressure. And processed foods are unhealthy in general. Adding plenty of salt to a dish you cook yourself at home from fresh ingredients? Not unhealthy!
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As someone who is salt sensitive, this would literally kill me with a migraine to end all migraines.
My father had some sort of "cardiac event" when I was seven years old. My mother stopped using salt from that day forward. Now I never cook with salt or add it afterwards. I don't like pre-prepared sauces or meals because all I can taste is salt.
Everyone should watch the Netflix special "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" by chef Samin Nosrat. Very few people use the right amount of salt, or the correct salt, for that matter. There's more to life than that blue box of Morton's.
Salt is likely to the only spice you can add at any time. Too much too early, can completely ruin a dish beyond repair.
I half agree. Yes people don't often use as much salt as they should. My pet peeves with that is pasta water. No one I know ever puts more than a tiny pinch in their big pot of water. However, oversalting is just as bad.
There's supposedly a salt gene that makes some people more/less sensitive to it. My SO can eat things so salty that they burn my mouth and basically drinks ketchup. One entire side of his family seems to be this way. They also don't eat certain veggies. After doing 23&Me or one of those tests, the salt thing was on there. He was also positive for the gene that can make certain veggies taste bitter.
Good luck with your future heart disease! You’ll barely be able to use any salt then!
Ew. Salt is gross. I can’t eat canned soup or other prepared connivence foods because they are too salty. I used to get HelloFresh boxes, and like every other sentence said to add salt. I started ignoring about half of these, because the food was way to salty
Most foods are full of sodium, no need to add more. It is an American thing.
salt kills the taste... if you don't even taste it anymore I feel sorry for your taste buds... years ago I started using way less salt and I'm enjoying all the different flavours the world has to offer... also good luck with the high blood pressure later
This is clearly a person who's desensitized themselves to Salt. The fact is most of our foods have waaaaay too much salt in them. Like grotesquely unhealthy levels. A true pinch and/or a gentle dusting is more than enough. There are far better herbs and spices to mix in to make flavor pop. Salt is the bacon of flavoring. A little goes a long way. And it's overused.
Nope nope nope. Salt should be used sparingly, and only for very specific purposes. It's incredibly easy to completely ruin a dish by oversalting it.
I just got chocolates for Christmas that have a good sprinkling of sea salt on them. Soooo good, some of the only chocolate I'll eat lol.
Hate eating out because of the salt use!! I mean, swollen eyes ,ankles, etc. Waking up so thirsty you contemplate drinking water from the shower cause you truly don't know if you can make it to the kitchen!! GEEZ!!
Once you get past a certain level you can no longer taste the additions. However, your body will realise and your blood pressure will rise. At least we get free/cut price meds in the UK.
Salt can kill you. I used to use it a lot, but stopped when medicine discovered it's responsible (at least in part) for kidney stones, which I've been getting for over half my life. Too much salt taken over the course of, say, several hours can boost your sodium so high that you get a migraine, dizzy to the point where you cannot stand up, and -- if you're lucky -- vomit it all back up. If for some reason (like recent surgery, say) you can't vomit, you'll probably die. Salt may not be the killer sugar is, but it's up there.
Anything can be overdone. You can die from drinking too much water. Do things the way you like to & forget everybody else. To use an old saying: Opinions are like a**holes, everybody's got one.
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This may be a bit cultural but I'd rather have a fine fine, even sprinkling of salt over dipping things in salt. You get so much more salt stuck to food by dipping it in a small pile than by just sprinkling some on top
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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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