Crimes of food preparation

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  • supahstar71
    supahstar71 Posts: 926 Member
    Too much or too little sauce on pasta. I find the pasta/sauce ratio a delicate one. Same with salad and dressing.
  • Surfrider
    Surfrider Posts: 364 Member
    Eggs overcooked to the point the whites are getting brown around the edges. Ugh..

    Someone had already pointed it out, but happens damn near every BBQ I have been to: Pressing the burger on the grill with a turner / spatula for X Y Z reason. All it does is force the delicious juices out of your now beef jerky like dry burger!
  • emmy3111
    emmy3111 Posts: 482 Member
    The McRib!! Has anyone ever ate one? I worked at McDonald's when I was 16 and I couldn't understand why people liked them!!

    ummm... I like them.
  • RushBabe214
    RushBabe214 Posts: 469 Member
    Not properly salting or seasoning meat.

    Not letting the meat rest for a sufficient period of time after cooking.

    Overdressing a salad.

    Dry or tough pie crusts.

    Not utilizing a kitchen scale to weigh ingredients when baking.
  • Marge321
    Marge321 Posts: 131 Member
    Over cooked brussel sprouts.....yuuushhh
  • rjt1000
    rjt1000 Posts: 700 Member
    Worked in too many restaurants and saw all these things. And on the bar side, saw too many crimes of drink preparation. I mean Courvoisier and COKE????????
  • iqnas
    iqnas Posts: 445 Member
    Overcooked vegetables.
    Fries without ketchup.
  • yourenotmine
    yourenotmine Posts: 645 Member
    Soggy bread. Just... no.
  • zenalasca
    zenalasca Posts: 563 Member
    Tuna casserole with the canned tuna added first :noway:
    Overcooked eggs :sick:
    Too much sauce in a sandwich :sick:
    Tomato sauce in a salad sadnwich :sick:
  • Beastette
    Beastette Posts: 1,497 Member
    Cooking tuna steak until it tastes like canned.
  • Restybaby2012
    Restybaby2012 Posts: 568 Member
    Leaving the poop vein in shrimp. :explode:

    OMG I may never eat shrimp again (though Im not a fan of it anyway, esp when it has those thingys on it....like it's feet or tail or whatever!!) OMG I just grossed myself out
  • dmf711
    dmf711 Posts: 141 Member
    HAIR IN FOOD! I can't believe that hasn't been mentioned yet!! If you're going to cook, do something with your hair to keep it out of my food's way! I cringe watching cooking shows where the host has her hair down. Rachael Ray is a BIGGGG offender.

    Large fat deposits on the edges of my meat gross me out. I shouldn't have to trim my steak after you've prepared it and cooked it. Even slicing it and serving it to my dogs as a treat grosses me out because the fat starts to solidify..... ughhhhh.

    Also, soggy bread on a sandwich with condiments that's been prepared hours in advance, stale popcorn, not properly refrigerating food items with mayonnaise in them (ahem, coworkers who order Panera and leave it on the break table for 5 hours.....)
  • smilingalltheway
    smilingalltheway Posts: 216 Member
    under ripe bananas

    mealy apples or pears

    under cooked egg whites

    cottage cheese .....yuck texture thing

    over ripe berries
  • MissNations
    MissNations Posts: 513 Member
    Giving me dressing with salad instead of salad with dressing.
    Bland anything. There are a million spices out there, use some!
  • MizzDoc
    MizzDoc Posts: 493 Member
    Oversauced pasta


    THIS!!!!
  • MizzDoc
    MizzDoc Posts: 493 Member
    The McRib!! Has anyone ever ate one? I worked at McDonald's when I was 16 and I couldn't understand why people liked them!!

    ummm... I like them.


    lol, me too.
  • Slimwish1386
    Slimwish1386 Posts: 10
    -Making potato salad with canned potatoes
    -Pizza with alfredo sauce on it and calling it a "white" pizza
  • wheldar
    wheldar Posts: 42
    Meal frozen then thawed that was not even close to the 'same' meal.

    Instant grits, cereal or non-fat dry milk

    Over-cooked steak, especially when considered to be 'blackened'.

    Any food served less than temp meant to be, cold or just under-cooked.

    Over cooked veggies, rather eat them raw then overcooked

    Under cooked eggs, runny egg whites (runny egg yokes OK, but only seldom eaten)
  • LMT2012
    LMT2012 Posts: 697 Member
    Anything served at not the right temperature. ie cold eggs or warm cottage cheese.
  • sariannach
    sariannach Posts: 32
    Using Wonder Bread or similar. Ever.

    (home baked bread is not that hard, and even if the texture/color isn't quite what you wanted, it tastes good. what a difference in sandwiches, as rolls, in stuffing, as bread-bowls for french onion soup... mmmmmmm.)
  • Sister_Someone
    Sister_Someone Posts: 567 Member
    Vegetables cooked to mush
    Overcooked pasta
    Runny eggs
    Under-salting
    Gummy mashed potatoes
    Under-baked bread
  • aerochic42
    aerochic42 Posts: 843 Member
    overcooked veggies
    mealy apples and pears and peaches
    blackened seafood where blackened around here means completely doused in Old Bay
    most food in Southern Maryland, we have a catergory of good for here.
  • Katherinesfitness
    Katherinesfitness Posts: 90
    Any cook that uses low grade mince in anything.

    Packet sauces and seasons like maggis beef stroganoff, it may be easy! It may have taken you 5 minutes but it tastes like dog food!!

    My bf's sister cooks chicken and terrifyingly somehow makes it as dry as a towel and purple by the next day... I don't know what she does to it...

    MICROWAVED VEGETABLES!!
  • sannsk
    sannsk Posts: 203 Member
    Like my aunt does, having a sigarette-smoking marathon in the kitchen while preparing a family dinner.

    While doing it, complaining how gross the fish is she's grilling for me (I don't eat meat, and she's litterally scared of fish-ish things)...
  • bathsheba_c
    bathsheba_c Posts: 1,873 Member
    Too much dressing on the salad
    Eggs where the whites are still runny
    Overcooked poultry, especially white meat
    Vegetables that have turned gray from overcooking
    Cold cuts on white bread
    Vegetarian matzah balls (yeah, it's pet peeve territory)
  • logdunne
    logdunne Posts: 132 Member
    Stirring anything in a metal saucepan with a metal spoon or fork :explode:
  • Swissmiss
    Swissmiss Posts: 8,754 Member
    Anything that is spiced so much that you can't taste the real food.
  • Dauntlessness
    Dauntlessness Posts: 1,489 Member
    Crunchy rice

    Over salted

    Overly spicy/hot

    Too much dressing

    Dried out protein

    -Did this one of Thanksgiving-I made a lattice apple pie, cooked it for 1 whole hour and it came out crunchy. No idea why...maybe because the holes on the top.

    I am one of those people who try new recipes a lot and put a ton of work and money into a recipe (from trusted websites and food magazines) then have them be epic failures.Usually not from my fault but the taste usually sucks. I mean really? You want to stake your rep off that? sigh
  • jessilee119
    jessilee119 Posts: 444 Member
    Using 2 slices of white bread as a hamburger bun - which my mom had to do when I was younger - desperate times call for desperate measures.
  • trophywife24
    trophywife24 Posts: 1,472 Member
    Not picking herbs off the stems before chopping them. I hate when I get stemmy parsley on something, ugh!

    Undercooked potatoes in potato salad. I think some people panic and taken them out of the water too soon. Mmmm, crunchy potato salad. Blarf.

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