[Closed] Culinary things which make you groan

Tell her it doesn't take any more effort to make a roast chicken than it does to make any other meal, it just allows her to pretend she's cooking for longer while it just sits in the oven.

🙂

Report back how it goes.

The chauvinism is strong with this thread it is

How can someone not like roast chicken 😕

The chauvinism is strong with this thread it is

I hate roast chicken and I dont care if its a bloke or a bird.

Roast chicken, effort?

Turn on oven, place chicken in oven, wait the required time whilst doing something else, turn off oven, eat chicken.

Hardly breaking a sweat

EDIT: Sorry, misread the OP.

Still, chauvinism it isn't.

I hate roast chicken and I dont care if its a bloke or a bird.

Cock

How is this chauvinistic?

If you dislike it so much why don't you get in and cook something else before the chicken gets put in? Must say though if you don't like roast chicken someone must be doing something wrong...

OP didn't allude to the gender of the person cooking it so surely by claiming "chauvinism" you are the one being sexist for assuming it is being cooked by a woman?

just eaten roast chuck, with 5 veg.
i cooked it whilst mrs t watched rubbish telly.
chauvinism disappears the longer you have been married.

Heterocentric at least 🙂

The chauvinism is strong with this thread it is

It really isn’t.

Bloody bloody bloody one tray lemon chicken.
Dry, tasteless and occasionally a bit of burnt red onion. It’s crap.

Why not offer to cook dinner yourself?

Spatchcock it coated with some nice spices and serve with alternative veg and tatties like lime and chilli corn on the cob, baked sweet potatoes with sour cream/creme fraiche, bean salad etc etc.

Traditional roasts just feel boring these days, find ways to make them more exiting and fresher.

Roast chicken is a doddle, once you learn to cook it long enough and leave it to rest.

But if you simply don't like roast chicken, well...

Sunday dinner with roast chicken, pigs in blankets, roast parsnips and roast potatoes was what we had today, homemade Yorkshire puddings to start with.
What's not to like about it, chicken went in before the bike rides with the timer set.
Dog has just finished her bowl full.
Enough chicken left for a couple of meals in the week and enough scraps and veg to feed the dog for a couple of days.

Maybe take the missus up the Toby Carvery?

Is that like the OXO Tower?

Culinary things which make me groan: The current trend for not using plates. Yes please, I'd love a cottage pie in a pint glass with a side salad in a dog bowl, thanks.

Indeed. Chips in metal baskets, veg in separate pots, just serve it straight up on my plate for goodness sake!

Pies in pots. Noooooooooooo. They're not pies, if they're just a lid on a pot.

Roast chicken is a favourite of mine, but no reason it should be everybody's.

How can someone not like roast chicken

This.

Where are yo OP, I'll have it.

Cock

Polla.

Culinary things which make me groan: The current trend for not using plates. Yes please, I'd love a cottage pie in a pint glass with a side salad in a dog bowl, thanks.

This also, The Red Lion in Alnmouth is ace but they give you stuff on slates, I mean WTF? (well they didn't last time cos I asked for a plate)

Chicken dinner is one of my least favourite meals. There’s nothing wrong with it per se, but there’s nothing right either. It’s just a blandfest, and bland food is a pet hate of mine.

Indian, Spanish, Italian, Mexican, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish, Chinese, Thai, pretty much any world cuisine would be my preference over ‘classic British’. I like fish and chips, but I’d much rather have a curry or a pasta dish, for example.

If we’re talking culinary ‘process’ and affectation, then basically anything that involves style over substance pisses me off. I don’t want my dinner to be assembled by some coke-fuelled maniac with a pair or tweezers with his sweaty face an inch from the food. Eating off of a plate is always preferable as well.

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I don’t want my dinner to be assembled by some coke-fuelled maniac with a pair or tweezers with his sweaty face an inch from the food. Eating off of a plate is always preferable as well.

Perfectly put sir!

'Presentation' my arse...just feed me proper scran!

Went out Thursday night for a meal, all was going well till pudding time. Ordered sticky toffee pudding and custard, it came on a slate. Who serves custard on a slate, had to wolf it down before it finished up on the table.

Maybe take the missus up the Toby Carvery?

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For Cougar - Might help change the tide

Good.

#WeWantPlates

Always check they use proper plates before ordering!

As a rule of thumb I avoid anywhere that sells, or has on the menu, Mac n cheese. As a child of the 80s, there was a lot of macoroni about about but I can't recall anyone ever calling it Mac n cheese. Anyway, it's not very nice and so stupidly easy to make so anywhere serving it is catering for stodge craving "mouth breathers" or hipsters.

[quote=dannyh ]Chicken dinner is one of my least favourite meals. There’s nothing wrong with it per se, but there’s nothing right either. It’s just a blandfest, and bland food is a pet hate of mine.

At least somebody understands. It's bog standard supermarket chicken which is bred to be devoid of flavour, roasted in a bog standard way. Quite happy to eat other things cooked in a similar way - things which taste of something in the first place, like the game birds we've sometimes had for Xmas dinner (this year was supermarket chicken 🙄 ). I do like roast potatoes though, they're the highlight of the meal.

Thankfully it went much better than I expected though, the kids didn't complain too much, so we didn't get the usual spiel.

Not that it's really at all relevant, but I do cook a lot of the time, however I don't choose most of the meals. On which thought, one of the things I used to cook and enjoyed cooking was "egg fried rice" (not all that similar to what you'd get from a takeaway/restaurant - my take on it, or at least it was). However it seems that's something I don't cook any more, hence it no longer contains ginger or spring onions and has peas in instead - yet more bland (apparently all it needs is lots of soy sauce).

Mmmmm roast chicken: Send it over here, I'll have it. Love the stuff. i could sit there and munch my way through a whole one to myself.

Whenever chicken dinner is on the way I am always casting around for some way to add some flavor to it. Stuffing, onion sauce, leeks as a vegetable - anything, anything with a bit of flavour.

I also err towards the drumsticks as the slightly darker meat has a bit more flavour in my opinion.

This thread isn't about the chicken is it...

He doesn’t like eating her chicken

Most would say that eating the chicken is one of the keys to a successful marriage

At least somebody understands. It's bog standard supermarket chicken which is bred to be devoid of flavour, roasted in a bog standard way.

If you don’t like a roast chicken dinner then whoever is cooking it is doing it wrong.

Lemon and line inside it, sage, thyme and rosemary chopped and under the skin and inside it, veg roasted in the same tin, cooked for the right amount of time - massive transformation on put chicken in oven.

Anyway heaps of great places doing good food some have a different way to serve it that doesn't make it taste worse, thankfully many grumpy people seem adverse to that so stay clear 🙂 All the better for the rest of us - I read earlier someone on about Mac n Cheese, great as a little side or deep fried into sticks, makes a change from Chips or Salad

If you don’t like a roast chicken dinner then whoever is cooking it is doing it wrong.

Doing something wrong anyway. Saying that, my son (31 yr old not the 33 yr old) doesn't like chicken in any form. So he says.

But he'll eat turkey ok. 🙄

Yeah one of my daughters doesn’t like bacon but likes ham and gammon. Told her the bacon in a carbonara I made for them yesterday was gammon and she liked it.

Mince & tatties. bawk.
In a cottage pie , tolerable.
This is due to being made to finish my dinners as a child. No pudding etc. 🙂

Meat with fruit is something I don't get on with (whether as part of the dish like duck a l'orange or vension and black cherry sauce or as a condiment like pork with apple sauce or turkey and cranberry).

As for roast chicken, I'm a fan but have noticed as I get older the meat in the roast dinner has become much less of a thing than the potatoes, gravy and veg. Get the veg part wrong and I'll probably notice how disappointing the chicken is, otherwise it's just a bit of protein padding out the tasty bits.

Tweezers.

Any food that is described as Umami ...

Pretentious food

Food that is 'thinking outside of the box'

Anything with dry ice making it look like a fog

Food should be served on a plate, and if there are chips, they too should be on said plate, not in a miniature basket/coal scuttle/shopping trolley.

Food should be served on a plate, and if there are chips, they too should be on said plate, not in a miniature basket/coal scuttle/shopping trolley.

I remember when your chicken 'n' chips came in a basket. There's nowt new.

mikewsmith - Member

Can you tell the difference when you taste it?
What if your plate was made of wood? Better to be on a paper plate?

I can tell the difference in taste yes, food served from an old roof tile or an upside down dustbin lid often has a slight whiff of tryhard-****ness about it.

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views on food served on ipads?

I'm going to set up a restaurant where the food is served on plates but the cutlery is hipster kitch. Maybe a trowel and a lump hammer. There's loads of hipster places opening in brum now, could probably get away with it, the cereal killer cafe is always satisfyingly quiet when I go past though.

Not that I want them to fail, but it is a stupid waste of money.

howsyourdad1 - Member

views on food served on ipads?

that's food?!

cereal killer café in London is brilliant. More of that sort of thing

food served from an old roof tile or an upside down dustbin lid often has a slight whiff of tryhard-****ness about it.

going off slightly on this - the one culinary thing guaranteed to make me groan is when my daughter decides she's going to make porridge. Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted she's having a hearty breakfast, and also delighted she is clever enough to be able to make it from scratch, rather than tipping a sachet into a bowl, adding milk and microwaving.

The groan comes from the fact that I'll be removing what appears to be the most resistant oat based adhesive know to man* from the inside of the pan afterwards. Nothing chemical seems to touch it, it needs a soak in boiling water and then for me to scrape the bits off with my fingernails.

* I say man, but being a nearly-teenage daughter the signs are there that she is some alternative species, and it's entirely possible this was actually developed to resolve some kind of cement shortage on planet elsa.

mikewsmith - Member
Ah perception and grumpiness, imagine the first time somebody got a plate rather than a wooden board with their food on it.

Well yeah, it is perception: the correct perception that it's idiotic and done by some tryhard twit trying to make their restaurant chain look cool.

A plate is a carefully designed object, [i]perfect [/i]for serving food on. Hence why it is so often used for doing so:

[list][*]It is made of a material which is easy to clean and generally light in color so any food/stains which gets missed in cleaning are easy to spot.[/*]
[*]It can be cleaned in a dishwasher.[/*]
[*]It has upturned edges so the food doesn't roll or dribble away, yet not upturned enough to get in the way of the K&F[/*]
[*]It is made of a hard material and doesn't get scratched easily[/*]
[*]It does not absorb food or oils.[/*]
[*]It does not corrode or degrade chemically when in contact with food.[/*]
[*]It has a ring on the bottom side which is rough/unfinished so it does not slip on the table[/*][/list]

Now let's see the list for those stupid wooden boards
[list][*]We can look [u]really on trend[/u] just like every other chain restaurant who does the same thing[/*][/list]

Food on wooden boards?

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/restaurant-wooden-boards-food-hygiene-fines-ibrahims-grill-steak-house-warwick-road-birmingham-a8148086.html

Mac-'n'-cheese always had an 'n' in it, they just altered the name to bring it on-trend and whack the price up.

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'Slaw' ...'koff
Cauliflower 'steak'....do one!
Any food with gold involved..in the sea.

inevitably we will have another "I've put a lot of effort into this, you should be grateful".

You should be. I'm grateful for anyone that cooks for me, regardless of the result, because it's a lovely thing to do. Talk about taking things for granted.

Anyway - chicken can be delicious if you do it right. And rubbish if wrong.

Bravo retro/tech team for putting bullet points in a post and it not ruining the formatting of the rest of the page!

The best way for a foolproof chicken (even if you have nothing to season/baste with) is to slow cook it. Moist and tasty every time and the juices make a great gravy.

Embarrassed to say but the nicest one I have done is [url= https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/ultimate-roast-chicken/ ]the Jamie Oliver recipe[/url]

‘My take on a classic (insert nice food here)’

Will always be worse than the classic dish.

If it ain’t broke...

‘Deconstructed’ see above.

Let’s not get into the pie/pastry hat debate

everyone - Member
Bravo retro/tech team for putting bullet points in a post and it not ruining the formatting of the rest of the page!

You're welcome everyone 😀

The groan comes from the fact that I'll be removing what appears to be the most resistant oat based adhesive know to man* from the inside of the pan afterwards

Food should be served on a plate, and if there are chips, they too should be on said plate, not in a miniature basket/coal scuttle/shopping trolley.

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The groan comes from the fact that I'll be removing what appears to be the most resistant oat based adhesive know to man* from the inside of the pan afterwards

I use jumbo rolled oats with half milk and water and I don't have this problem, unless I leave the pan unattended too long on the hob and the oats start to catch and brown on the bottom of the pan.

I would suggest you experiment with lower temperature and regular or even continual stirring once the the porridge starts to thicken.

It's not me, it's my daughter

I can make porridge and have it out of the pan and the pan washed up no trouble. i don't know what she does, all I understand is the feeling in the pit of my stomach when i find the pan in the sink.

On a time for money basis, I reckon I'd be better off buying cheap pans by the containerload direct from Taiwan.