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30 Times People Were Disgusted By Someone’s Home Cooking, As Shared In This Online Community
One of the Hogwarts professors used to say in the Harry Potter books that you need to have an innate talent for Potions, and no books can replace its absence. Most likely, he was right - at least, this is absolutely true for those activities that are most akin to Potions, only for Muggles. Yes, we are now talking about cooking.
Many people are completely convinced that spoiling food when you do not know how to cook at all is a real kitchen crime. From this point of view, there are petty hooligans, and there are absolute gangsters whose every approach to the stove turns into a natural disaster and a threat to the lives of others. And, unfortunately, there are many such people.
Recently, a new question appeared in the AskReddit community: "What's the worst home cooking you've ever witnessed?", which caused a lively interest among redditors. At least as of today, the original post has over 8.4K upvotes and about 3.5K comments listing culinary crimes of varying severity.
Bored Panda compiled a list for you of the most popular, funny and even life-threatening stories from this thread, so now feel free to scroll to the very end, write your own comments - and never, under any circumstances, repeat the mistakes of the 'heroes' of these tales! Anyway, bon appetite!
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I worked at a restaurant for years and always loved making food at home for friends and family. Practice has made me fast and efficient. So I always cooked and made new dishes at home for me and my roommate.
One morning out of the blue my roommate wanted to make me breakfast because he wanted to thank me I suppose. It was a nice gesture. I didn’t want to intervene so I let him do everything and just peaked from time to time.
It was a simple meal, eggs, bacon, toast.
He went through the whole carton of eggs because he kept burning them. He ruined the pan by scraping with a butter knife, after that everything was sticking to it, forgot the season. It was a mess. Somehow managed to burn a lot of toast in the process, also burned the bacon multiple times that the house got full of smoke and just continue cooking with low visibility. Once I realized he wasn’t gonna do anything about the smoke I opened the windows, doors and turned fan on, by that point I was already eyeing the fire extinguisher just in case.
Then it hit me. He’s never cooked a meal in his life.
He said his mom only fed him to-go food and microwave meals.
It was a nice meal.
We have a plastic container full of breadcrumbs that we make from stale bread. I was making breaded chicken/kotlets with my sibling, and we were using said breadcrumbs to do so. My siblings plan to avoid more cleaning up was to just dip the eggy raw chicken into the breadcrumb container, as this can then just be put back afterwards. After I caught them doing this, I said we would have to throw out all the breadcrumbs afterwards, to which they were confused as to why, because to them all the breadcrumbs that touched the chicken would have been picked up. It resulted in a big argument and despite everyone else explaining why it was bad, they still do not see why. Have never trusted them with food hygiene again.
Leave them to it - once they've had Salmonella, they'll soon change their habits ....
Different players would host the DnD game and we would usually order food. But one day, X really wanted to host, and told us he'd cook us his famous Shepherd's Pie. Another friend of ours, Y, never shut up about how good this dish was whenever the topic of cooking came up, so we were excited.
It was watery, unseasoned mashed potatoes. The ground beef was dry, crunchy-crumbly... And unbelievably salty. No other seasoning. Just salt. Too much salt.
Our friend Y was moaning about how good it was and my partner and I were shook (and hungry).
Turns out X had anosmia. He couldn't taste anything but saltiness, which was why his food was both bland and salty. Y was just an idiot.
Outing myself here: I once exploded a lemon meringue pie.
Looked in the oven to check if the meringue was brown and it was...not on the pie. It was intact, several inches to the right of the crust and filling. The whole meringue layer had lifted up and repositioned itself in the oven like an eggy UFO.
All I can figure is that through some odd science magic involving the temperature of the filling, moisture, steam and/or a curse, pressure built up between filling and meringue and POOF takeoff.
I had the opposite experience when baking a lemon meringue pie for my in-laws-to-be the first time I met them. The meringue completely evaporated in the oven, leaving only the merest white residue on the edge of the pie dish. I figured it went through a wormhole. Maybe you got mine?
Sink pasta.
When I was little we went over to my grandmas friends house for a party. There were snacks on the kitchen table and I helped myself as a child does lol I make my way over to the stove because I’m a nosy kid and wanted to see what was for dinner. Mashed potatoes, a roast in the oven, pie, cookies, gravy, all these glorious items.
Then I see the sink. On one side of the sink is full of pasta, peas, cheese chunks, red peppers, and a white sauce…and it was just all mixed together in the sink. The other side, uncut fruit and dirty dishes. Now, we came early because my grandma was going to help her friend set everything up. So I run out to where they are and say, “grandma! There’s pasta in the sink! Do you want me to throw it away?!” Her friend says, “no sweetheart, that’s sink pasta, that’s how you make it.”
I looked over at my grandma mortified. Since she raised me and we were always in the kitchen together she drilled into me about cleanliness with cooking and the sink was ALWAYS considered very dirty even if it was clean. A blueberry fell in the sink? It got re-washed, that’s just how grandma was. Sink=dirty. I was always forced to try everything once until that day. I was being watched to make sure I tried it and I just couldn’t get over my kid brain freaking out about how gross the sink is. People seemed to really enjoy it. I spit it out and upset the host but I just told my grandma I could taste the sink and cried. She didn’t make me eat more, in fact, she didn’t even have any! Some of the other guests started asking questions about why I said it tasted like the sink when it was in a bowl (it was transferred to a bowl before guests showed up). So the host had to explain sink pasta and it wasn’t much touched after that lol
TLDR I was little, saw sink pasta, was forced to eat it, and I made a scene, because GROSS lol
That, is quite disgusting. I've never heard of sink pasta and hope I've never eaten any unknowingly at some pot luck or family dinner 🤢
I have a friend who’s an objectively decent cook, she knows meat temperatures and what a microwave can and can’t be used for. But when she starts to get creative, all hell breaks loose.
She once served me chicken with a sauce composed of balsamic glaze, Caesar dressing, and a splash of Kool-Aid, among other things I can’t immediately recall. I think an instant ramen packet went in there? I’m actually thinking of signing her up for HelloFresh as a birthday gift so she literally only gets what’s supposed to be in the recipe
I had an old friend back in college who claimed to be vegan. I didn’t understand this since she drank milk and ate cheese, which clearly are NOT vegan but insisted meat and eggs are wrong to consume. This one time she invited me over for lunch and decided to make a ‘Vegan’ omelette. I’m not a vegan, but am always open to trying new dishes. Now, I know there are options for egg substitutes out there and thought she would use one of those. Nope. She dissolved a whole box of saltine crackers in milk, sautéed some veggies in a pan, then dumped the soggy cracker concoction into it. Cooked it for a few minutes the. Added some cheese. She then divided it in half and served it to me on a plate. I’ve had some very good vegan dishes in my life but that was definitely not one of them.
there was milk and cheese in it... i think she's just a vegetarian who doesn't eat eggs.
Microwaved frozen chicken breasts until thawed, then cooked naked on a sheet pan and served shredded for tacos. Bonus, they were not seasoned because "that's what the salsa is for!" This was for a dinner we were specifically invited over for. We have not been over since.
Editing: I once got invited by a date to his home so he could treat me to a "homemade dinner". It was unseasoned ground beef covered in ketchup shaped like a meatloaf. No other spices. 😲😲
At least he tried. I used to be a grocery cashier in the US. A young guy came in one Sunday, clearly buying all the stuff to make a fancy steak dinner. Turned out that it was his first date with a girl he really liked. Problem was, he was trying to buy a bottle of sherry to make the marinade for the steak. TX blue laws prohibit the sale of any alcohol on Sunday before noon, and you can't buy any sweet wine, like madeira or sherry, at all on Sunday. When I pointed that out to him, he was crestfallen--until I also pointed out to him that cooking sherry doesn't have the same prohibition. I put up the bottle of real sherry, showed him where the cooking sherry was, rang up everything for him, and sent him on his way. I hope the steak dinner was a success.
Load More Replies...My ex's idea of cooking chops, take a ball of chops from the freezer, put said ball on oven tray, turn the oven on full, bake chops till smoke appears. Done
A friends daughter asked me how to make her skinless boneless chicken breasts taste better. I suggested salt- sodium is bad for you, saute in butter - fat is bad for you; so brining was out, any kind of sauce was out. I said then go out to eat.
Next time, tell her to find 3 cloves of garlic, mash them, get a carton of greek yogurt, add the garlic to the yogurt, marinate the breasts in the yogurt for at least 6 hours, and grill. They always come out tender, juicy and tasty (I also add more spices of course, including salt...but per your post, she seems to be hesitant to use any lol).
Load More Replies...i didn't need to hear about how it was baked, knowing they thawed it in the microwave was enough
What's the problem with that? Is it because of the taste? Serious question. It is safe to defrost meat in the microwave on defrost mode as long as the pieces are not too big.
Load More Replies...Oh god...a "that's too much flavor" white people house food...the awful memories of unseasoned "meatloaf" and luke warm tinned peas. "Just put some ketchup on it. Here, I'll help you!" SPLAT. *Shudder* 🤮
What should it be seasoned with? Besides salt? Serious question. I rarely season meat, it's perfect on its own. (I also don't feed people, so relax)
Load More Replies...It was fine until they didn't season it. The microwaving until thawed is either innocently bad planning/timing (ADHD anyone), unfortunate delay and creative fix, or just plain ignorance. While it's not necessarily the best option, the microwave does have a defrost setting.
Depends on what you consider the worst.
Most inedible meal? Hands down my brother. My kids have food allergies. Bro decided years ago that no one has food allergies. They are just brainwashed into thinking they have them. So he won't tell us if he put things they are allergic to in his cooking. So we don't eat anything he cooks.
Most unsanitary? This event happened right after the last time he tried to make my kids eat something they are allergic to. Hands down, Bro. He married a nurse for a short time. While they were dating, he invited her over for some ham, beans and cornbread for dinner. As they are dishing up the beans, he says that it is okay if they taste a little funny. He accidentally left them sitting out for 2 days and they got a little mold. He scraped it off and then stirred in some bleach to make it safe to eat. She ordered a pizza. She still married him after this, which has always boggled my mind.
Most disgusting food combinations? Again, Bro. At one point he was visiting my family and he surprised us with breakfast. He wanted to make omelets for us. He used sweet pickle relish instead of bell pepper. He used coffee instead of milk. I have no idea what else he did to it because I was not putting that weird colored awful s**t in my mouth. He also had pancakes made. That he insisted were best with French dressing instead of syrup. He tried choking that down and it made him barf. Then he had a tantrum because none of us would eat any of it (not even his dog would eat this nastiness). Just the smell of the food had my cat in fit. For years after that, she tried to bury Bro like a s**t in her litter box. That cat of mine could hold a grudge forever!
Weirdest worst home cooking? It wasn't my aunt's dish called secret squirrel. I never did figure out what was in it, but no way was I eating anything with that name as a kid. Or it could be the dinner at my first serious boyfriend's mother's house. She cooked dinner as she explained how important it was for her to have all her fillings out and to have them replaced. But it had to be done at the top of a certain mountain in Colorado due to some strange paranormal superstition. I just did not even know what to say about that. She tried to open my mouth to see if I had fillings and needed this special treatment. Nope. Not happening.
A friend of mine invited me over to help on an outside project and said he'd buy lunch and beer. I happily did so and the project ran well beyond lunch. No big deal to me, glad to help out however I can and had no real plans. We decided to have dinner at home and then walk to a nearby pub.
For dinner his then-wife cooked *tacos*. She took raw ground beef, added salt and pepper, folded it into a tortilla and deep-fried it on the stove. I knew better but I decided not to offend and ate some. Probably less than 1 to 1.5oz of meat.
We walked to the pub and I had maybe two beers, home by 10:30pm.
At about 2am, I felt my stomach churning. Texted my wife and told her I'd be leaving as soon as I could get off the toilet long enough to drive home. Left around 7am and the 40 minute drive took nearly 90 minutes because of all the stops.
It took about two days for my body to accept more than fluids.
A group reunion with college roommates. She dumped all of the chicken and vegetables for a chicken curry into a dirty sink beside a second sink filled with dirty dishes. She lost a piece of chicken down the garbage disposal and reached in to retrieve it. I looked over at our other old roommate and went, “Girl, we gon die tonight.” We smiled and prayed.
1st Thanksgiving with the inlaws. Everything so dry and overcooked. Dry dry dry turkey. Dressing so overbaked it was hard & crusty (not in a good way). Mashed potatoes without enough milk or butter so they were stiff. Gravy very thick and gloppy so it didn't help at all. Over-boiled veggies swimming in grease. Cheap store-bought pies.
Fortunately we left half way through when they started the god-talk/gay bashing. Never went back. F**k 'em.
My uncle was grilling burgers and hot dogs and sprayed the grill with some “cooking oil/PAM” and also sprayed the tops of the burgers and dogs. . . Well we go to eat and they taste funny, turns out the spray was grill cleaner. . . So far we are all still alive
Wait for it... the cleaner may be more successful working through the intestines.
One time I was invited to a friend’s home, she said she’s cooking, I was excited since she’s from a different area in China, so the food must be different and good.
However I saw her tossed frozen tofu in a hot pan, then dumped a bunch of sauce, then microwaved some meat, almost cook it, tossed it in the sauce too.
It was kind scary. During dinner time, she said “well you are not a big eater huh”. I mean, how could I be a big eater with that weird overcooked salty food?
I was invited again, to make dumplings together. I brought dumpling skin (from a market, I can’t make them). She said she’s going to make the skin, I was excited, I haven’t had fresh dumpling skin for years.
It turns out she bought a tool on Amazon, thinking that would work, obviously she doesn’t know how to use a rolling pin either. The skin was so thick, also sadly not holding the fillings inside.
I kinda took over and said let’s use the store brought skin, here are the fillings I made. The dumplings turned out pretty great, then she started to invite me over every weekend to “cook together”, took me a little while to find out I became her family’s free weekend cook.
I grew up around men and women that cooked well, maybe that makes me very picky.
Not picky I’m Chinese too and that sounds a little weird but you’re definitely not picky
Eating at my ex boyfriend's house...his mom is making soup and sandwiches. Ok great!
One pot of boiling water...she opens up a bag of frozen misc veggies...carrot, cauliflower etc. Tosses it in with pepper and salt.
There's a bunch of white bread with margarine slathered between.
"Hey kids, soup's done!"
It was just the boiled veggies in their own water.
This is so sad. I always say if you can read, you can cook. Just look a up a recipe and follow it!
In my first apartment I had a nice couple, about my age, living right above me. The guy and I had chatted a few times, and at one point we all decided to have dinner together, which turned into a sort of pot-luck.
His fiance made "fried chicken", by tossing chicken in plain flour and baking them.
They came out of the oven with loose, white flour still on them, and every bite threatened to send me into a choking fit due to inhaled flour.
That same night I furiously googled how to bread chicken and learned the process of dredging and breading. Thanks for the learning experience, I guess. XD
My mother-in-law, bless her heart, makes “stewed green beans.”
Which means she takes canned green beans, dumps them in a saucepan, and cooks them down until they are mush (I think she cooks them 3-4 hours). I believe she puts some kind of margarine in the pan, but no seasonings or anything like that.
That was my mom. She was horrible with the canned vegetables. It took my sister until her mid 30's to realize that she did not in fact hate all vegetables but hated canned vegetables. She now enjoys quite a few veggies
I and some other friends were invited over for an evening with dinner and Eurovision song contest.
We walk through the door and the kitchen is a mess, no counterspace open and sticky floors. For dinner we were supposed to have a sort or curry with chicken, rice and loose toppings, usually delicious.
crimes committed that evening:
- cutting chicken over the dirt sink (no clean counter space).
- cutting onion on the same cutting board as chicken
- making sweet and sour sauce instead of curry by adding the whole can of pineapple including juice
- no salt in sauce or rice
- boiling the loose rice to death by continually adding water because the rice were still hard (she's used to parboiled baggies)
- asking for advice for said rice AFTER
- sticky plates and utensils
only reason none of us got sick was because the had definitely reached above safe cooking temps.
Bonus:
said friend also believes she's better at cooking than everyone else
My Mom just throws things in her air fryer for a random time/temp and goes outside while I witness it burn. If I wasn't there, I'm sure by now she would've burned down the house.
Things happen but I had never seen someone catch a casserole on actual fire until last Thanksgiving. They scraped the burnt top off.
Oh my goodness I have one of these!
I went to this dinner party that my friend from Brazil had and she served his boiled chicken, still in the water and in a big pot on the table, along with spaghetti that was boiled for probably an hour and that was also served in the big pot of water and just sat on the table!
It was so watery and disgusting and inedible.
This spaghetti just fell apart and she served cold sauce from the jar. The chicken was absolutely disgusting!!
Just so people know, this is not traditional for Brazil. No clue what happened here but clearly, cooking was not their thing
My sister made(tried) brownies she used 1 part sugar 1 part oil and 1/2 part flour and 1 part coco powder. She mistook my words and decided to microwave it 12 15 mins instead of baking it. That s**t was harder than life.
An exes mother almost ruined rosemary for me. And my two fave veggies for that matter. On two seperate dinners she prepared broccoli and asparagus the same way. Microwaved in a glass casserole dish, covered in water, with about 8 sprigs of rosemary floating in it. Nothing else. Bloated, soggy, gross veggies that tasted of only rosemary. I could barely stand cooking with the herb for nearly a decade.
Not witnessed, but truth was confirmed by both parties.
He did the majority of the cooking, and used stale bread or crackers as a binder. Whatever was on hand.
She decided to do something nice for him because he'd be coming home late. She made meatballs according to a recipe in a cookbook. She knew about the breadcrumbs/cracker addition, but they didn't have any, so she hunted around for a suitable replacement and came up with ...
Nilla wafers.
I'm curious about how that tasted. Guess it depends on how many wafers were used.
Lasagne made with one layer of pasta, with what was basically mini chicken nuggets, carrots, peas and greenbeans. Worse still, pasta was raw. I should've clicked when it was made in about 45mins.
My MIL made her dish of “beef and noodles” for us a day ahead of time (because it was hot or something). Her way of reheating it was literally to dump the pan into a pot of boiling water!!! Then we had to eat the soggy mess…
My ex mother-in-law was a God awful cook. I understand some recipes allow for some creative liberty, I do that all the time, but I've never seen someone replace milk with "Vanilla Silk" so freely for mashed potatoes.
I had a nice couscous salad I used to make them, and again, able to tweak it, but she would "extend" the dish by doing the amount of couscous in it, and nothing else, so it would end up super dry and tasteless.
Also, I've never seen someone who was so skilled at making beef tenderloin tough and dry.
My own. I was trying to make a veggie chilli w tempeh, dark chocolate, and a beer. Watched a few videos. Read a few recipes. Felt confident. Accidentally over salted. To compensate, I try to add more chocolate. Wasn't thinking too clearly and added about 10x the recommended chocolate amount. It ended up like a thick chocolate stew.
Mother in law poured chicken marinade on the finished chicken to "give it more flavor". Granted the marinade was only microwaved for 30 seconds prior. My wife was pregnant at the time which made it even worse.
If you properly cook the marinade before pouring over the cooked chicken, that's fine, however, what your MiL did is a prime recipe for Salmonella !!!!
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I always hated oven "baked" chicken, actually refused to eat it when someone offered. Turns out unseasoned, medium rare pale-pinkish meat is just my mom's interpretation of this meal.... How are we all still alive, no clue. Semi raw chicken makes some crunchy noises when eaten, btw:/
That is so incredibly unfortunate. Properly done, baked chicken is incredible.
Load More Replies...And I thought my grandmother boiling Brussel sprouts was bad
It must be a Grandmother thing. My Nan used to boil Brussel Sprouts til they were a watery grey ,disintegrating pulp...Delightful.
Load More Replies...Lived in a shared house, we got a new roomier who suggested we take turns to cook for everyone, rather than everyone trying to cook at the same time. Made sense. Except...she assumed we could all cook. One of us, let's call them Bob, had never cooked in their life. Was served tuna pasta, easy quick what could go wrong? First they added pasta to non boiling water, then dumped a tin of tuna, undrained, into the pan. We ordered pizza.
I could say a lot about my mother, but I'm thankful she loved Julia Child, learned how to cook, and taught me. I taught my daughter, and she's a way better cook than I am. Her palate is better and she's more adventurous.
The first (and last) Christmas dinner with my (now ex) in-laws.... There were three items resembling chunks of wood, totally unrecognisable as anything edible. She had made 3 roasts, beef, pork and chicken. They were so overcooked and dehydrated, it was like trying to eat sawdust and splinters. I managed to choke down some bits with copious amounts of red wine. That wine was also the only way I was ever going to survive being around his parents! The vegetables were boiled until they just resembled dark green and orange mush; however the roast potatoes were perfect.
I once got a parfait and I accidentally ate a rotten strawberry. It was mushy and had like a hair in it or something and now I can't eat strawberries in yogurt anymore
Makes me think back to my oldest sisters first time hosting the thanksgiving meal. She had begged and begged our mom to let her do it. Finally mom said yes. Literally everything she made was both a disaster and yet decent. Runny mashed potatoes (I'm talking closer to soup) with the best punch of flavor ever. Charred stuffing but only just the top, and it actually helped the taste. Undercooked but very well seasoned green beans. And my personal favorite, the turkey that had somehow managed to CATCH FIRE in the oven, but was barely burnt and one of the juiciest turkeys I have ever had in my life. They came to a compromise the next year, mom was hosting, but sister could help as well as season. Lol
My MIL made tacos for a family reunion. Ground beef with no seasoning (not even salt) on flour tortillas with lettuce. Then said, "There's Ranch chips if you want to make a salad instead." I was pregnant at the time so I just said I wasn't feeling well and decided not to finish my plate.
OMG. This is my ex and ex-mil. I never understood why my ex always put ketchup on everything before even trying something. Figured it out when I had my first meal with my ex inlaws. He and his dad immediately put ketchup on her roast. I don't like ketchup really so I "tried" to eat. It could have broken the table it was so tough and tasteless. My ex read that you put seasoning in the food at the very end of the cooking. I've been cooking since I was 6 and tried to explain thats for fresh herbs/spices not dried. Never believed me. He would make his spaghetti sauce this way and poured over the noodles and baked. It tasted like tomato sauce straight from the can poured over it he thought it was fantastic. As an Italian I was disgusted. Since he grew up with a mom who was not a good cook he never liked a single dish I made. I'm a good cook as I cooked for my family when my mom went back to college and dad couldn't cook. By the time I left him I was making hamburger helper all week.
Oh my... That sounds very tiring! I'm so glad my husband is all pro trying new things if I want to, even though when I ask him what he wants to eat he usually says "some kind of meat with potatoes and veggies" like... Alright, but... That's a "can't think of anything"-thing to me. We've started a list of everything I/we can cook that we both like, and we can both just move something we're in the mood for to the top of the list for next week, and things we've just had to the bottom. I've learned to make chimichangas, fritatta, bolognese from scratch, Indian butter chicken with honey and cinnamon, and a great many other dishes, where I could barely cook about 3 years ago. We've gone from mostly frozen pizzas to meal planning and cooking fresh most days, and I enjoy it immensely, especially when my husband trys to learn something from/with me!
Load More Replies...Have a sibling who thinks she can cook. One year she invited a bunch of singles from church and myself for a Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey was okay but all the veggies were cooked to mush. No one came the next year. I tried showing her how to steam broccoli and then she took it back to her kitchen and re-cooked it to mush. Also, at least to me, everything was over salted but that may just be me as my husband (deceased) had been on a salt free diet.
I'm a good cook(thank you mom and dad) and used to be 'known' for my pecan pie, which was expected to show up at every dinner with family and/or friends. One Christmas I had been invited to my boss's home for dinner(she and her family became a 2nd family for me) and I arrived at their home with the pie and a bottle of bubbly. Time came for dessert and I couldn't cut the pie with their heaviest sharpest knife. Cherie (boss) was at the opposite counter cutting the cake she had made. She saw me struggling - her face turned bright red and she started laughing uncontrollably. Having had a lot of champagne with dinner, we were all laughing so hard, my sides were sore. After agreeing it would draw ants if used as a doorstop, we decided the lump of brown sugar concrete went into the fireplace. Darn thing wouldn't even burn. These days I stick to Key Lime pie.
My stepmother couldn't cook. She actually told her daughter "I'm a grown up. I don't need to read directions". Friday night was hot dogs and baked beans night. Well, it was for me and my 4 siblings. My father, stepmother and stepsister would have steak instead of hot dogs. She'd burn the baked beans. Did I mention these were from a can? She'd boil the hot dogs and they tasted fine even if they exploded on occasion. She'd cook the steaks so long they resembled charcoal briquets. I was so glad I wasn't her natural daughter. lol This was every...Friday...night.
My dad could grill steaks like nobody's business, but he couldn't cook in the kitchen at all. He would try to be creative but he came up with some weird dishes. One that sticks out the most was his mashed potatoes with sauerkraut. Yuk! He'd also pour a whole bottle of wine in the crockpot with some stew meat. The potatoes would be stained bright red. I'm glad that I take after my mom when it comes to cooking!
I actually like mashed potatoes and sauerkraut. Every so often I'll do kielbasa with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes and I'll add a bunch of sauerkraut to my potatoes. I also like barbecue sauce mixed in with my mashed potatoes so maybe don't listen to me after all.
Load More Replies...My ex's mother was a dreadful cook.She used to make ,what she called "spaghetti bolognese".It was made up of pasta that was sloppy on one end and still hard, but slimy and stuck together at the other end(?) ,only partially drained, so it sat in rapidly cooling ,milky looking water. Then she topped it with some chopped up raw onion and tomato sauce (like ketchup sauce).Occasionally she would put a cheese slice on top.I cooked spaghetti bolognese (from my Nonna's recipe) once ,but the ex said he liked his mum's better. He said the same thing when I cooked Italian style schnitzel(my Italian chef uncle's recipe) because, unlike his mother I hadn't used crushed Weet-Bix and no seasoning to crumb them.
My mother couldn’t cook to save her life. All meat was grilled until it was charcoal. Vegetables were boiled to tasteless mush. Spaghetti Bolognaise was mince meat boiled until all the fat was melted then drained, powdered gravy mix was added to make the mince brown then it was served on over cooked pasta. If she was feeling really adventurous she would throw in a can of tomatoes. No seasoning ever, no salt no pepper no spices nothing. I learned how to cook out of self preservation.
MY MIL couldn't cook an edible meal (in my opinion) -- sugar in EVERYTHING, Meat and vegies cooked until they were well and truly dead :-( And THAT isn't mentioning her idea of Hygiene :-( But she thought the same about my cooking. What Beans still green rather than khaki? NO sugar in the peas?? Fried rice without sugar in it?? Wholemeal bread. Where's the soft crust sweet white stuff?? (etc.)
I once went on a trip to visit a guy I was dating's grandparents and I was excited bc I'd heard nothing but good things about them and they were taking us on vacation. First night there they served us pork and beans with hot dogs cut up in it and ketchup on top heated up in the oven and salad. Needless to say, I ate a LOT of salad that week. I think they were both terrible cooks and the kind of people that didn't believe kids ever grew up bc they treated him like he was about 8 and we were literally in college. That was definitely not a lasting relationship bc everyone kinda treated him that way. It was super weird.
Worst meals have to be my aunts idea of a toasted sandwiches andanything else she tried to fob as food in her house. She was supposed to be making lunch, was supposed to be cheese and onion toasted sandwiches. Couldn't work out why she was so careful and overly protective of them. Turns out she put all the mix on her sandwiches, and basically wiped the dirty knife on my bread before tossing it in the pan. Anything she fed me was pulled out of the freezer, freezer burnt, likely to be really old and something disgusting she wouldn't eat herself but didn't wato waste. She'd serve herself up anything good, if we did lunch she forgot her wallet, went grocery shopping I got guilty into paying for everything. She can't work out why I have nothing to do with her now.
Once when I was babysitting, I was maybe 15, I was trying to make the kids Mac n Cheese. Well we were playing my GameCube and completely forgot about the pasta... By the time I realized, it turned into mush. It looked like mashed potatoes after I added the cheese LMAO. The kids loved it though LMAO!!! They said, "WOW!! So creamy!!" Bless their heart lol.
Okay, was this some kinda test to see how far you could go? I made it to #5.
Thank you Oleg Tarasenko. I'm having a bad day(three weeks). Needed some giggles.
I always hated oven "baked" chicken, actually refused to eat it when someone offered. Turns out unseasoned, medium rare pale-pinkish meat is just my mom's interpretation of this meal.... How are we all still alive, no clue. Semi raw chicken makes some crunchy noises when eaten, btw:/
That is so incredibly unfortunate. Properly done, baked chicken is incredible.
Load More Replies...And I thought my grandmother boiling Brussel sprouts was bad
It must be a Grandmother thing. My Nan used to boil Brussel Sprouts til they were a watery grey ,disintegrating pulp...Delightful.
Load More Replies...Lived in a shared house, we got a new roomier who suggested we take turns to cook for everyone, rather than everyone trying to cook at the same time. Made sense. Except...she assumed we could all cook. One of us, let's call them Bob, had never cooked in their life. Was served tuna pasta, easy quick what could go wrong? First they added pasta to non boiling water, then dumped a tin of tuna, undrained, into the pan. We ordered pizza.
I could say a lot about my mother, but I'm thankful she loved Julia Child, learned how to cook, and taught me. I taught my daughter, and she's a way better cook than I am. Her palate is better and she's more adventurous.
The first (and last) Christmas dinner with my (now ex) in-laws.... There were three items resembling chunks of wood, totally unrecognisable as anything edible. She had made 3 roasts, beef, pork and chicken. They were so overcooked and dehydrated, it was like trying to eat sawdust and splinters. I managed to choke down some bits with copious amounts of red wine. That wine was also the only way I was ever going to survive being around his parents! The vegetables were boiled until they just resembled dark green and orange mush; however the roast potatoes were perfect.
I once got a parfait and I accidentally ate a rotten strawberry. It was mushy and had like a hair in it or something and now I can't eat strawberries in yogurt anymore
Makes me think back to my oldest sisters first time hosting the thanksgiving meal. She had begged and begged our mom to let her do it. Finally mom said yes. Literally everything she made was both a disaster and yet decent. Runny mashed potatoes (I'm talking closer to soup) with the best punch of flavor ever. Charred stuffing but only just the top, and it actually helped the taste. Undercooked but very well seasoned green beans. And my personal favorite, the turkey that had somehow managed to CATCH FIRE in the oven, but was barely burnt and one of the juiciest turkeys I have ever had in my life. They came to a compromise the next year, mom was hosting, but sister could help as well as season. Lol
My MIL made tacos for a family reunion. Ground beef with no seasoning (not even salt) on flour tortillas with lettuce. Then said, "There's Ranch chips if you want to make a salad instead." I was pregnant at the time so I just said I wasn't feeling well and decided not to finish my plate.
OMG. This is my ex and ex-mil. I never understood why my ex always put ketchup on everything before even trying something. Figured it out when I had my first meal with my ex inlaws. He and his dad immediately put ketchup on her roast. I don't like ketchup really so I "tried" to eat. It could have broken the table it was so tough and tasteless. My ex read that you put seasoning in the food at the very end of the cooking. I've been cooking since I was 6 and tried to explain thats for fresh herbs/spices not dried. Never believed me. He would make his spaghetti sauce this way and poured over the noodles and baked. It tasted like tomato sauce straight from the can poured over it he thought it was fantastic. As an Italian I was disgusted. Since he grew up with a mom who was not a good cook he never liked a single dish I made. I'm a good cook as I cooked for my family when my mom went back to college and dad couldn't cook. By the time I left him I was making hamburger helper all week.
Oh my... That sounds very tiring! I'm so glad my husband is all pro trying new things if I want to, even though when I ask him what he wants to eat he usually says "some kind of meat with potatoes and veggies" like... Alright, but... That's a "can't think of anything"-thing to me. We've started a list of everything I/we can cook that we both like, and we can both just move something we're in the mood for to the top of the list for next week, and things we've just had to the bottom. I've learned to make chimichangas, fritatta, bolognese from scratch, Indian butter chicken with honey and cinnamon, and a great many other dishes, where I could barely cook about 3 years ago. We've gone from mostly frozen pizzas to meal planning and cooking fresh most days, and I enjoy it immensely, especially when my husband trys to learn something from/with me!
Load More Replies...Have a sibling who thinks she can cook. One year she invited a bunch of singles from church and myself for a Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey was okay but all the veggies were cooked to mush. No one came the next year. I tried showing her how to steam broccoli and then she took it back to her kitchen and re-cooked it to mush. Also, at least to me, everything was over salted but that may just be me as my husband (deceased) had been on a salt free diet.
I'm a good cook(thank you mom and dad) and used to be 'known' for my pecan pie, which was expected to show up at every dinner with family and/or friends. One Christmas I had been invited to my boss's home for dinner(she and her family became a 2nd family for me) and I arrived at their home with the pie and a bottle of bubbly. Time came for dessert and I couldn't cut the pie with their heaviest sharpest knife. Cherie (boss) was at the opposite counter cutting the cake she had made. She saw me struggling - her face turned bright red and she started laughing uncontrollably. Having had a lot of champagne with dinner, we were all laughing so hard, my sides were sore. After agreeing it would draw ants if used as a doorstop, we decided the lump of brown sugar concrete went into the fireplace. Darn thing wouldn't even burn. These days I stick to Key Lime pie.
My stepmother couldn't cook. She actually told her daughter "I'm a grown up. I don't need to read directions". Friday night was hot dogs and baked beans night. Well, it was for me and my 4 siblings. My father, stepmother and stepsister would have steak instead of hot dogs. She'd burn the baked beans. Did I mention these were from a can? She'd boil the hot dogs and they tasted fine even if they exploded on occasion. She'd cook the steaks so long they resembled charcoal briquets. I was so glad I wasn't her natural daughter. lol This was every...Friday...night.
My dad could grill steaks like nobody's business, but he couldn't cook in the kitchen at all. He would try to be creative but he came up with some weird dishes. One that sticks out the most was his mashed potatoes with sauerkraut. Yuk! He'd also pour a whole bottle of wine in the crockpot with some stew meat. The potatoes would be stained bright red. I'm glad that I take after my mom when it comes to cooking!
I actually like mashed potatoes and sauerkraut. Every so often I'll do kielbasa with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes and I'll add a bunch of sauerkraut to my potatoes. I also like barbecue sauce mixed in with my mashed potatoes so maybe don't listen to me after all.
Load More Replies...My ex's mother was a dreadful cook.She used to make ,what she called "spaghetti bolognese".It was made up of pasta that was sloppy on one end and still hard, but slimy and stuck together at the other end(?) ,only partially drained, so it sat in rapidly cooling ,milky looking water. Then she topped it with some chopped up raw onion and tomato sauce (like ketchup sauce).Occasionally she would put a cheese slice on top.I cooked spaghetti bolognese (from my Nonna's recipe) once ,but the ex said he liked his mum's better. He said the same thing when I cooked Italian style schnitzel(my Italian chef uncle's recipe) because, unlike his mother I hadn't used crushed Weet-Bix and no seasoning to crumb them.
My mother couldn’t cook to save her life. All meat was grilled until it was charcoal. Vegetables were boiled to tasteless mush. Spaghetti Bolognaise was mince meat boiled until all the fat was melted then drained, powdered gravy mix was added to make the mince brown then it was served on over cooked pasta. If she was feeling really adventurous she would throw in a can of tomatoes. No seasoning ever, no salt no pepper no spices nothing. I learned how to cook out of self preservation.
MY MIL couldn't cook an edible meal (in my opinion) -- sugar in EVERYTHING, Meat and vegies cooked until they were well and truly dead :-( And THAT isn't mentioning her idea of Hygiene :-( But she thought the same about my cooking. What Beans still green rather than khaki? NO sugar in the peas?? Fried rice without sugar in it?? Wholemeal bread. Where's the soft crust sweet white stuff?? (etc.)
I once went on a trip to visit a guy I was dating's grandparents and I was excited bc I'd heard nothing but good things about them and they were taking us on vacation. First night there they served us pork and beans with hot dogs cut up in it and ketchup on top heated up in the oven and salad. Needless to say, I ate a LOT of salad that week. I think they were both terrible cooks and the kind of people that didn't believe kids ever grew up bc they treated him like he was about 8 and we were literally in college. That was definitely not a lasting relationship bc everyone kinda treated him that way. It was super weird.
Worst meals have to be my aunts idea of a toasted sandwiches andanything else she tried to fob as food in her house. She was supposed to be making lunch, was supposed to be cheese and onion toasted sandwiches. Couldn't work out why she was so careful and overly protective of them. Turns out she put all the mix on her sandwiches, and basically wiped the dirty knife on my bread before tossing it in the pan. Anything she fed me was pulled out of the freezer, freezer burnt, likely to be really old and something disgusting she wouldn't eat herself but didn't wato waste. She'd serve herself up anything good, if we did lunch she forgot her wallet, went grocery shopping I got guilty into paying for everything. She can't work out why I have nothing to do with her now.
Once when I was babysitting, I was maybe 15, I was trying to make the kids Mac n Cheese. Well we were playing my GameCube and completely forgot about the pasta... By the time I realized, it turned into mush. It looked like mashed potatoes after I added the cheese LMAO. The kids loved it though LMAO!!! They said, "WOW!! So creamy!!" Bless their heart lol.
Okay, was this some kinda test to see how far you could go? I made it to #5.
Thank you Oleg Tarasenko. I'm having a bad day(three weeks). Needed some giggles.