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People Are Sharing The Cooking Opinions They Refuse To Budge On (20 Posts)

Cooking is one of the best ways to bridge cultures and create shared memories. The exchange of cuisine has brought us things like pizza and other treats.

u/CessnaBlackBelt recently wondered, however, what the OPPOSITE of that exchange might look like. They asked, “What’s your most gatekeeping culinary opinion?”

1. Changes

If you change a recipe when you make it, you’re not allowed to rate it in the reviews without making the original. Nothing worse than someone rambling about the 14 changes they made to a recipe, and then giving it a 3 star…

Slickness81

2. Burnt

Burning shit doesn’t make it Cajun.

HanMaBoogie

3. Butter

Anthony Bourdain was right: butter is the secret ingredient.

Redditforgoit

4. Don’t

if you don’t allow chicken to brown when you’re pan frying it, just don’t

TwoLittleNeedleMarks

5. Basics

If your middle eastern/Mediterranean place serves bad or bland hummus I’m not even going to bother with the rest of your menu. If you can’t get the basics right don’t waste my time.

Anduinnn

6. Safety

I think EVERYONE (both food service workers and general public) should take a food safety course.

ADryMuffin

7. Cutting boards

 if you use a glass cutting board, we can’t be friends.

Bearded-and-Bored

8.  Oven

You cannot trust your oven thermometer. Get a separate one and use it to “calibrate” your oven. Mine will tell me it’s hot about 100 degrees before it’s actually at temp. Very annoying.

AttackOfTheThumbs

9. Celery

Celery is not “just as good”when used as a replacement for onion.

rupesmanuva

10. BBQ

I’ve done many of BBQ contest back home in Texas, the best wood to use in my opinion is pecan.

Real_Spirit_4456

11. Ground

Freshly ground black pepper is so much better than pre-ground (like the stuff in shakers at restaurants).

lumamaster

12. Cajun

Jambalaya is a dry rice dish. If someone is serving a sauce over rice and calling it jamabalaya, they have no idea what that dish should be.

orezybedivid

13. Citrus

LEMON and LIME have two very different flavors. My entire family seems to think that they taste the same and will substitute one for another.

Hack-A-Byte

14. Bites

If you can’t take a full bite of your sandwich or burger in one go it is a fundamental failure.

Djinjja-Ninja

15. Recipes

While recipes are useful, folks should prioritize WHY things work in a recipe over just memorizing a recipe.

The_Owl_Bard

16. MSG

MSG makes average food delicious, and takes delicious food over the top.

Mendican

17. Tots

Smashing a fistful of tater tots and pressing them onto a plate isn’t a hash brown.

Jurrasicp

18. Oh NO

My friend was in Maine. Stopped at a place and their chicken parm was… chicken nuggets with ketchup and American cheese. If he told me the name I would Molotov cocktail that place so that culinary abomination could never be made there again.

StarMasher

19. Mayoli

Stop calling mayo with anything mixed into aioli.

Poet_Pretty

20. Scrape

Please scrape the food off your chopping board with the non cutting edge of your knife.

Ex-zaviera