30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood

Unless it's a country fried steak, then yumm!

It *can* be done right. For example, a steak can come out just fine in a cast iron skillet. I've done it myself, and a *good* cook / chef can, I'm sure, get great results. At my skill level, though, I admit I get better results on my outdoor grill.

I mean, it’s good in some situations, like some sandwiches, but… every time? Ew.

you can certainly cook a helluva steak frying it....but you don't really wanna just fry the thing til it's gray...

How do you have your steak, if not fried? Just done on the BBQ?

I got the munchies too.

chicken fried steak is popular in the South .... it means it's breaded and deep fried yuck

My dad used to tell me that cows tongue we were eating was steak. Hated steak until I got older and understood.

Saw many nice steaks ruined in the Navy, the mess Chief said they had to cook to medium well for safety according to regs. Very sad.

I used to absolutely find them vile. Then, I was given them baked, lightly coated in olive oil first, with either a light amount of salt+pepper, or lawres seasoning. Game changer and now, I occasionally think about that day.

Try adding bacon. 🙂

Eating a serving of them is like playing Russian roulette: will this bite have an almost-sweet, cabbage-y flavor; or will it be as bitter as a jilted bride? Crisp or mushy? Slimy or not-slimy? Just not worth it.

Ditto, the smell alone makes me gag – and I practically eat everything else.

Did you try pan frying with bacon?

I like them cut in half, pam fried in balsamic vinegar, the baked in more balsamic vinegar. The bottoms HAVE to be almost burned or else it's not right lol

Same. Not even cheese and bacon can help those bitter balls of evil.

Yep. I keep trying different variations that someone says "no this way is awesome, you'll love them!" My husband actually does love them so every couple months I'll try it again and every time my only reaction is "why do people like these?" I mean, certainly the way you cook them (and I've been told I make them well) does make a big difference, it's just that the difference is between ville inedible balls of yuck that you can't even force yourself to chew and swallow and mildly unpleasant things that you eat a few of to say you ate your vegetables them immediately eat something else to get the taste out of you mouth. The difference between really really horribly bad, and significantly less bad but nowhere near enjoyable. I'm on the picky side, there are quite a few things I hate waaaaay more, but they're definitely not something I'd ever actually choose to make and eat if my husband didn't love them.

They only need to be thrown in boiling water with salt for 8 - 12 minutes depending on the quantity and they have a totally different taste. Not bitter.

There is a great difference in taste between the big ones and the baby sprouts. If you have tried baby sprouts and still hate them...you hate sprouts. My friend wanted to try them few years ago, my reply was "One leaf or two?". She was forced to eat them as a kid, and loathed them. She found out that the little ones are no where near as bitter as the giant ones.

Too bitter!

Whereas, I like them boiled in butter sauce. My dog thought he wanted to try one, so I gave it to him and he ate it. (Apparently on the theory that people food is always best). Spent the next hour rubbing his muzzle on the carpet to kill the taste…..

Me too. They are the pinnacle of disgusting vegetables

hAvE yOu TrIeD tHeM wItH sAlT aNd PePpEr????///

same here... my mom (and later my husband) tried every trick in the book, every type recipe... I still don't like them... (I'll eat them if there's nothing else, but sparingly and not with enjoyment)... still, it's the only veg that I refuse to eat if I can eat something else (there's far more that I can't eat due to allergies)...

Cutting the root deeply works but you lose almost half of it, it still doesn't worth for your effort.

They go bitter when they are over cooked

I will try them that way. I used to hate asparagus, until I tried it grilled with evoo, and little s& p.

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Bacon, onions and garlic complete the dish.

Roasted sweet potato, carrots, parsnips, red onion, peppers and cherry tomatoes. Salt, pepper, olive oil. A little Cajun seasoning if you like it. Amazing.

Try steaming them sometime! Or cooking some root vegetables with a roast.

Same. I love roasted veggies, but carrots are best raw

Ooh, now I'm going to have to try roasting tomatillos!

I'm a vegetarian; my partner is not. I have been permanently banned from cooking bacon because I always panic and over-cook it. I can deal with ground meat or slow-cooker meat, but anyone who wants bacon can cook it for themselves.

My mother was very similar except she would never have taken the skin off a sausage and boiled it. That’s Satan’s work. She left the skin on and cooked them until they were almost black but still pink in the middle. Her mother was a great cook. My sister and I are both pretty good. Talent always skips a generation.

Carpet underlay😂

Opposite here - carnivorous family, mum boiled everything to death, me veggie. I've been cooking my own meals since I was 11 & cooked for the whole family semi-regularly including meat (except beef, just the smell is enough to make me throw up!)

I hear ya! I started cooking out of self-defense.

Butter, garlic, spinach, salt and pepper, cream I could eat every day.

Butter, splash of vinegar salt and pepper