Crimes of food preparation

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!

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.

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????????

Soggy bread. Just... no.

Cooking tuna steak until it tastes like canned.

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.....)

Giving me dressing with salad instead of salad with dressing.
Bland anything. There are a million spices out there, use some!

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.

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)

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.)

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.

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)...

Stirring anything in a metal saucepan with a metal spoon or fork :explode:

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

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.