I just get extremely tetchy when someone pours ketchup all over something i spent 3 hours making.. Or disses my steak because they want theirs burnt to a crisp.

Eat what is served and I will give you the same courtesy.

/b/ is a horrible place where your soul goes to die, and where you leave most of your empathy and the last of your decency behind. More or less the reason why I don't even bat an eye to the most horrific scenes of IRL carnage and death anymore.

 

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Honestly, the overwhelmingly vast majority of food related illnesses has little or nothing to do with how much you cooked the food, but how you handled it before cooking it. Did you pick it up over your lunch hour at work and leave it in your hot trunk from 1pm til 5pm when you left work and then went home? Did you thaw it for 2 days on the counter top before cooking it?

Most of the concern and "horror stories" people hear about food are the result of institutional "issues". This means schools, and the military, who get food from contractors for the cheapest possible price - food that may not be the freshest, or might not be handled the most appropriately, then they cook hundreds and hundreds of burgers in a hurry for hungry troops or kids in a school cafeteria and there might be a rush so there might be a tendency to not cook that chicken breast in the middle to complete doneness and it might come out with a bit of salmonella.

Meanwhile most Americans in their whole lives won't cook as many burgers as some lunch lady or army cook might make in one freaking week.

I'm not advocating being reckless, but imo, all people should be required to understand enough "biology" to understand the basics of food preparation and sanitary handling. THAT should be a "health class" requirement imo for all American High School students.


As for /raging over how people like their food. I don't give a damn how you like your food. If I'm cooking, I'm going to give you reasonable choices if I'm doing something like grilling - but if you change your mind after I've started serving the burgers or steaks and now you want yours well done - instead of 15 minutes before I started cooking everyone else's food when I asked, then you're going to get the lighter and shown the way out to the grill to go and burn it yourself.

 

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You have to roll with the punches. Are you going to have a stroke because someone likes their steak more done than you? I know I don't. I leave it on for a few minutes longer and make them happy. It takes very little effort on my part.

 

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Yes I'm going to have a stroke, if I make someone dinner I do not take it lightly I do my outmost to reach perfection.. I mean steaks ofc you can get yours medium or well done if you want to.. but if I spent 3 hours making a ragu and you then pour ketchup all over it I'm going to be crossed.

My god damn aunt always put salt on everything before she tastes it.. I usually hide the salt..

 

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Savage Euros

 

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Mammagram you gotta let that roll off your back and just remember that the next time the person comes over, you can serve them bullsiht food and save some cash for good booze instead of wasting it on their meal.

My best friend did his culinary school internship in a 4 star restaurant in Pittsburgh where a dude would come in every week, order a filet mignon, have it cooked well done, order it with a bottle of ketchup and while he was eating his steak, would be smoking a cigarette (restaurants had smoking sections back then, probably like they still do in Europe).

Anyway, he would take a drag on his cig, set it down in the ash tray, saw off a piece of his hockey puck dry filet mignon, drag it through ketchup, chew it up, and exhale his cigarette smoke at the same time, put down his knife, pick up the cig, take another drag and repeat the process, lighting more cigs as needed til he was finished with his meal.

If the guy wanted to blow $75 on food like that (this was 1993) then so be it...

 

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It's not about personal preference, some people like well done steak. Fine, I think they are stupid but it's their choice to like their meat that way.

It's about the "OMFG you are trying to kill me" people who think that if you burn the hell out of everything you are safer.

You aren't. The majority of food borne illnesses contracted are due to how the food was handled before and after it was prepared, not how much it was cooked and the overwhelmingly vast majority of food borne illness is from uncooked VEGETABLES and cold served products, not meat or other cooked products.

It's the lettuce, the green onions, the zucchini, and the cold chicken on the salad bar that are trying to kill your kid...not the fricken hamburger that still has a tiny bit of juice in it.

lol ok. Maybe I've made so many dinners and have learned to mellow out that it doesn't affect me so.

Relax my Swedish friend.

 

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Guess you're right.. I do however like the craft of making food, it's creative and makes me happy and leftovers are always awesome

You can't smoke anywhere public here.. been so for about 10 years. I have no idea about France, but we smoked everywhere in Spain

That is just horrible, then again if they paid me I would not care, it's my resources that they are ruining and my work and I do not get paid for it..

 

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dude, German heritage unable to relax.. efficiency, progress and perfection is more or less the national mantra.

 

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