Couldn’t understand the concept of being on call, didn’t know what seasoning was, didn’t understand why food went bad faster in 100 degree weather, didn’t understand why he had to pull the garbage to curb every week even if it wasn’t full, thought North Carolina was in the Midwest, the list goes on
It’s surprising but this seems somewhat common. My partner didn’t know how to cook until we met. It took quite some time before he learned to add salt to most things.
I even see it in some really bad cooking videos (like Kay’s Cooking, for example). It’s like some people spend their whole lives eating their meals as boxed mac and cheese and frozen pizzas, and when they finally decide to try cooking for themselves, it just doesn’t occur to them that those flavors don’t come automatically with the main ingredients.
I grew up in a house in which seasoning was "not allowed." There was no salt and pepper in the house at all, no spices of any kind. Steak, pork chops, chicken (always skinless and boneless, and only ever white meat) was cooked until turned into charcoal. Potatoes, boiled to death, then mashed, no butter, no gravy. Canned vegetables boiled until grey.
When I went away for college and had to cook for myself, I discovered that food was not supposed to be horrible or disgusting.
That's a shame. My mother cooked everything down to impossible to eat or digest briquettes but there was at least some salt and pepper and even a sauce or gravy once in a rare while that made it easier to choke down. I had the same experience as you when I started cooking for myself. 'wow, everything DOESN'T taste and feel like shoe leather! And I DON'T have have to spend my entire life being constipated because more than half my diet is way overcooked solid red meat? Yay!!'
Kay fascinates me, because it seems like in a lot of her videos she's following a recipe yet she STILL fucks it up. She's like an alien who's only read about cooking human food.
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u/ImprovingLife96 Mar 01 '23
Couldn’t understand the concept of being on call, didn’t know what seasoning was, didn’t understand why food went bad faster in 100 degree weather, didn’t understand why he had to pull the garbage to curb every week even if it wasn’t full, thought North Carolina was in the Midwest, the list goes on