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I'm genuinely horrified!

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Idreamofparis · 09/01/2025 22:11

I do most of the cooking at home, which is fine. My husband will do some basic meals, also fine.
Tonight I made some Korean vegetable pancakes that my girls like. Also made some pork.
As my husband doesn't like the pancakes, I asked what veggies he'd like to do for himself.
He proceeded to boil some mushrooms!
I'm genuinely horrified. He said he likes them.
Is this a thing? Do people eat plain boiled mushrooms?
What ways of cooking foods weird you out?

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Bagpussnotbothered · 10/01/2025 00:03

That pancake recipe looks lush. I plan to try it at the weekend.
Boiled mushrooms...ugh, not by themselves. The hotel ones are always a bit floppy & slimy.

I do put dried shittake in hot water and keep the broth, but that's as far as it goes.

I am sorry you married a culinary monster, OP.

PromiseNotToCall · 10/01/2025 00:00

Longbenton · 09/01/2025 22:22

He's probably sick of living with a pretentious wife. Just give him egg n chips next time.

That's so uncalled for ....

PromiseNotToCall · 09/01/2025 23:58

Be glad he knows how to use the stove and boiled the mushrooms himself 😂

PoorUncleBarry · 09/01/2025 23:57

That's weird as hell. He could at least have put them in a dry pan cupside up, with a little salt. It draws out all the moisture like a wee edible bowl with soup, yum.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 09/01/2025 23:52

Overcooked veg.

I grew up thinking I hated vegetables.

Turns out I only thought that because my parents always boiled veg into a mushy pile of revoltingness that looked like it had already been eaten.

Twice.

Lunde · 09/01/2025 23:50

I mean I quite like poached mushrooms - cooked in a small amount of mushroom stock and served on toast,

But it sounds like he just dumped mushrooms in boiling water like carrots.

Snugglemonkey · 09/01/2025 23:48

comeondover · 09/01/2025 23:20

If you fry mushrooms, they take up a lot of butter/oil. You can start them off by boiling/simmering and then finish them off by frying and it uses much less fat and still tastes like you fried them all the way.

Also, if you simmer shiitakes, you get an amazingly tasty broth that you can either drink as is or use as stock for something else.

Only if you put in a lot of fat though. I use a non stick pan and a tiny sliver of butter initially. I get then going with some garlic, pepper and salt and when they release their own water (possibly add spinach), cook it off a wee minute and add a wee knob of butter and potentially some herbs. Less than 1/2 teaspoon of butter for 2 people. V adaptable for different flavour profiles and types of food to serve them alongside.

SapphireSeptember · 09/01/2025 23:45

I cook them in milk and butter with herbs and plenty of white pepper, but just boiled in water? Hell no!

juggleit · 09/01/2025 23:33

Longbenton · 09/01/2025 22:22

He's probably sick of living with a pretentious wife. Just give him egg n chips next time.

Ooosh! Had a bad day? Sympathies to you but really!?

Snugglemonkey · 09/01/2025 23:32

LittleRedRidingHoody · 09/01/2025 22:24

That's how they cook loads of mushrooms you find at all you can eat breakfast type things in hotels 😂

That being said, I would never commit the sacrilege myself - fried off in butter and garlic is the only way 😋

Which us why they're like wee flavourless slugs in lots of hotels, even though mushrooms on toast is my favourite breakfast at home. World of difference in flavour.

MoonWoman69 · 09/01/2025 23:31

fivebyfivebuffy · 09/01/2025 22:23

When I was a carer someone asked for boiled celery. She tried to convince me it was nice, but I don't even like celery to start with!

My grandmother used to do this and serve them with white sauce as a veg, I detested it... Absolutely gross, something about the taste, it changes when you boil it! I've only just started adding finely sliced celery to stew, I can cope with that as it's in gravy! But boiled as a veg, nope!

Thighdentitycrisis · 09/01/2025 23:27

@fivebyfivebuffy
i remember braised celery as a dish when I was a kid. Was it for an elderly person? It reminds me of how it was usual to eat things simply.

Dramatic · 09/01/2025 23:26

It's a hard way to find out you've married a psycho but there we go, it should have been a question you asked in the first couple of dates really

MoonWoman69 · 09/01/2025 23:25

LTB... Crimes against mushrooms!!! Lightly fried in butter, yes! Boiled? Pack yer bags mate!!!

LadyWiddiothethird · 09/01/2025 23:24

Always had mushrooms boiled in milk as a child.The juice soaked into the buttered toast,delicious.

comeondover · 09/01/2025 23:20

If you fry mushrooms, they take up a lot of butter/oil. You can start them off by boiling/simmering and then finish them off by frying and it uses much less fat and still tastes like you fried them all the way.

Also, if you simmer shiitakes, you get an amazingly tasty broth that you can either drink as is or use as stock for something else.

MistyEyeOfTheMountainBelow · 09/01/2025 23:20

Did you know he didn't like pancakes and then had him do his own side dish? 😂

Kevinbaconsrealwife · 09/01/2025 23:19

I’d take him for every feckin penny !!!!

Givemestrength1000 · 09/01/2025 23:19

Longbenton · 09/01/2025 22:22

He's probably sick of living with a pretentious wife. Just give him egg n chips next time.

Goodness me! What would provoke such an unnecessarily nasty comment? Who pissed in your cornflakes?!

Negroany · 09/01/2025 23:12

I steam them, sort of the same thing. They're fine. I have also poached in milk and butter, not as keen on that.

Oodiks · 09/01/2025 23:12

That's gross, wtf boils mushrooms??

Topsyturvy78 · 09/01/2025 23:10

I only boil mushrooms for a cooked breakfast. But anything else I saute them.🤣🤣🤣

MsTeatime · 09/01/2025 23:09

Longbenton · 09/01/2025 22:22

He's probably sick of living with a pretentious wife. Just give him egg n chips next time.

Was that a poor attempt at humour, or were you trying to be a dick?

Iloveyoubut · 09/01/2025 23:03

GuineaPigWig · 09/01/2025 22:16

Well I do quite like mushrooms in a stew which essentially are just boiled I suppose. Never thought to just bung them in a pan of boiling water though. I’m quite intrigued!

Yes but that’s allowed because you’re ‘boiling’ nice flavours into the mushrooms and also not pouring away all the mushroom’ness at the end either.

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