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no not have pepper in the house?

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bluecomputerscreen · 31/07/2024 17:45

I just don't use it in cooking (use many other spices and herbs though).
I threw out a quite dusty packet 10years out of date recently.

relative is visiting and has offered to cook and asked for the pepper.

aibu not to buy any?

what are the bets that my relative will buy us a pepper shaker?

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Ponkpinkpink15 · 31/07/2024 18:54

AGodawfulsmallaffair · 31/07/2024 17:46

Buy one, a pepper grinder is about a quid.

@AGodawfulsmallaffair

where the hell from??

SweetFemaleAttitude · 31/07/2024 18:54

Wow OP. Your are so quirky and different. You're just not like all us other girls.

quietdays · 31/07/2024 18:53

S0livagant · 31/07/2024 18:32

Why do these have to be white pepper? I've always used (plenty of) black pepper. I don't think I've even seen white peppercorns in the supermarket.

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But it’s not the same taste. I buy black peppercorn but white pepper already ground. White pepper is stronger. And I buy red peppercorns.

RampantIvy · 31/07/2024 18:53

GinAndBeerIt · 31/07/2024 18:45

I think I'm the only woman in the world who doesn't have any herbs and spices in the cupboards.
I do have salt and black pepper somewhere in them though.

You must eat a very bland diet. Do you never eat out or have a takeaway?

ItsAlrightDarling · 31/07/2024 18:53

If someone was cooking for me and my family and asked for a very cheap, simple ingredient to help with that, I’d pick one up with the shop.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 31/07/2024 18:51

user8464987632 · 31/07/2024 17:46

I think its quite unusual not to have black pepper and a grinder but I don't think anyone has used white pepper since 1988

I still use white pepper in a cheese sauce.
And I put lots of black pepper in/on loads of things. I’d be very peed off in someone else’s house if I was eating there and they didn’t have any.

Differentstarts · 31/07/2024 18:50

WetBandits · 31/07/2024 18:48

But what do you have on your scrambled eggs?! Shock

Salt, cheese and sometimes ketchup

Differentstarts · 31/07/2024 18:49

GinAndBeerIt · 31/07/2024 18:45

I think I'm the only woman in the world who doesn't have any herbs and spices in the cupboards.
I do have salt and black pepper somewhere in them though.

I don't and I also don't have pepper but I like really basic food

WetBandits · 31/07/2024 18:48

But what do you have on your scrambled eggs?! Shock

PeloMom · 31/07/2024 18:48

LittleYellowCloth · 31/07/2024 18:21

Agreed. My tastebuds are dying at the thought! To be missing out on such a lot of varied, deep and accent flavours!

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I just skip the onion part. My DH doesn’t eat onions and I don’t like touching/ cutting them. It’s no big deal.

JudgeJ · 31/07/2024 18:47

LittleYellowCloth · 31/07/2024 17:49

I use white pepper regularly, in Chinese dishes, and in things like white sauce where black specks would spoil the look of the finished dish. It’s stronger than black pepper.

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I use white pepper in scrabbled eggs but normally I use crushed black pepper in everything, it's lovely on strawberries!

GinAndBeerIt · 31/07/2024 18:45

I think I'm the only woman in the world who doesn't have any herbs and spices in the cupboards.
I do have salt and black pepper somewhere in them though.

SanMarzano · 31/07/2024 18:45

Do you use turmeric? It’s best to pair it with black pepper to get the curcurmin.

If you need recipes using it, I can share one from my weekly rotation that uses 4 peppercorns as part of the spice blend 😋

Takoneko · 31/07/2024 18:44

KimberleyClark · 31/07/2024 18:43

White pepper is also very good on baked beans. Always have it on my beans on toast.

Forgot about beans on toast! Always use white pepper on mine too. On a fry up you need both. Cracked black pepper on the fried eggs and white on the baked beans.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 31/07/2024 18:44

bluecomputerscreen · 31/07/2024 17:53

if I buy some now ift will only gather dust until I have the next clear out.

If I bought some pepper for someone who planned to use it in meals she wanted to cook for me, and she was then able to use it in my food, I would be going hungry because I loathe the taste of the stuff. As far as I am concerned it spoils anything it is in.

KimberleyClark · 31/07/2024 18:43

White pepper is also very good on baked beans. Always have it on my beans on toast.

Differentstarts · 31/07/2024 18:40

We don't have pepper can't stand the stuff so have never bought any

ODFOx · 31/07/2024 18:40

I use black pepper for European and North African dishes, white pepper for Asian dishes. For American (North or South) one can sub in chipotle or jalapeño (mild) chillis.
If you neither make nor eat any of those then YANBU.

Takoneko · 31/07/2024 18:39

S0livagant · 31/07/2024 18:32

Why do these have to be white pepper? I've always used (plenty of) black pepper. I don't think I've even seen white peppercorns in the supermarket.

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I buy my white pepper ready ground.
It’s not like black pepper where you want it freshly ground. White peppercorns have had their skins removed so they don’t crack in quite the same way black ones do.
I agree with others that in mash, bechemel, tomato soup, Chinese food and cheese on toast it has to be white pepper.

Andthereitis · 31/07/2024 18:39

Buy one and make sure they take it when they go.
It's a quid in the pound aisle at Morrisons.

Pluvia · 31/07/2024 18:36

I just don't like it. If the OH cooks he will use it and I won't even notice though.

Okaaaay...

Arlanymor · 31/07/2024 18:35

SwingTheMonkey · 31/07/2024 17:51

Someone is offering to cook for you, why wouldn’t you just get some in? What a strange hill to die on.

This! I don’t drink coffee - hate the taste and the smell of it as it goes - but I always have some in because people visit. You are not being unreasonable but you are being weird, someone is cooking for you, spend two quid to get them pepper!

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 31/07/2024 18:35

@bluecomputerscreen I am pretty sure that the OP is not going to listen to anyone and is determined to be unreasonable!!! waste of time commenting on benefits or otherwise of having pepper in the house because she just doesnt use it therefore no one else will ever be using it either!!

McP13 · 31/07/2024 18:34

I wouldn’t buy it as I don’t like pepper (other than a pepper sauce but only have that at my in-laws house as my fil makes a mean pepper sauce) but I have to as my husband LOVES pepper on everything. So I literally just have a pepper shaker because it came with the salt and I think Iv filled it once in 10 years..

Ponderingwindow · 31/07/2024 18:34

If it’s just you in the house, you don’t have to stock anything you don’t eat.

if you ever host guests for meals, it is customary to provide salt and pepper for seasoning the food to each guests liking. Given how inexpensive these condiments are and how long they can be stored, it would be very odd to not go ahead and provide them.