How much of the roast do you eat before serving it??

[2anddone]

Just cooking a roast for me and dc. Casually carving chicken and it just occurred to me that actually I eat just as much carving the chicken and dishing up as I do at the table!! Please tell me I am not the only one!!

[kaleishorrid]

The wings - to test the chicken is cooked. Before DD went back to university we would have a wing each - now I have to eat both as DH doesn't like the wings - Ho hum

[kingsleyhimself]

I tell dh to leave the roasting dish from the washing up and I'll do it myself while he sits down. Then i eat all the lovely burnt salty fatty bits mmmmm

[MrsJonesAndMe]

Not really anything other than maybe a pig in blanket.... I do most of my picking after when clearing up

[DinosApple]

Lots of the skin, and any garlicky chickens bits, plus any tiny crispy roast potatoes... It's just as bad with lamb.

Beef I'm not bothered by.

[Lolaloveslemonade]

2/3 Yorkshire puddings... 😳😅

[FallonsTeaRoom]

We both have the first carved slice between us. Mmmm

[MrsRogerLima]

Loads 😳 I have to not buy pork often because rim the only one who likes crackling so I eat it as soon as the joint is out of the oven and leave the meat to rest.

[Ginkypig]

I don't eat meat but I'll normally steal a roast potatoe if there's one extra and a few bits of the roasted veg there is never a Yorkshire go steal.

[TheFlis12345]

Most of the chicken skin (you need to take it off before you rest the chicken anyway or is ceases to be crispy and is pointless!) and the wings. I scoff them while I finish the gravy.

[Pinkstars2501]

The parsons nose is beautiful and I won't hear any different! As are the oysters.

[iklboo]

The first slice of roast beef is pretty much all. Can't stand chicken skin or crackling (yes I'm weird) but the first slice of a beef joint is the 'taster' and it's all mine.

[dun1urkin]

I’ve done a roast this weekend. I always give myself the best roast potatoes.

[baldisbeautiful]

Oysters and wings on the chicken, and a bit of crispy skin with some thigh meat ! Usually full up by the time my plate is in front of me x

[rosegoldwatcher]

I once, when using chicken thighs to make a curry, cooked the thigh skins separately and ate the whole lot. They were gorgeous!

Oh my poor arteries!

[UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername]

DH just made a lovely lump of roast sirloin, and I snuck in and ate a big wodge of mustard crusted edge while he was making the gravy

In Ireland, the parson's nose is called the pope's nose. I didn't know it existed till DH told me, when I was 20. My dad had eaten every single one for all those year, and kept it a secret.

[PegasusReturns]

The meat gets carved at the table but I definitely nab one or two of the really crispy potatoes.

[shitinmyhandsandclap]

I scoff the crispy lamb skin before DP gets near, it's the best bit

[Popcornismandatory]

If I'm cooking roast beef or gammon then I will need to keep slicing bits off just to check it's deliciousness of course. Roast chicken I don't tend to unless a wing falls off as I lift it from the oven

[Bluntness100]

@magicstar1

None if it’s chicken. But for lamb, beef, pork or ham I have a couple of slices on bread and butter just to make sure it’s cooked well .

Isn’t that a sandwich,,,,😂

[Sunbird24]

I tend to chew the string once it’s been cut off the roast beef. Lots of flavour in the knots!

[magicstar1]

None if it’s chicken. But for lamb, beef, pork or ham I have a couple of slices on bread and butter just to make sure it’s cooked well .

[MargotMoon]

@JaJaDingDong

The parson's nose is the chicken's tail. It's disgusting, even though some people will tell you it's the best bit!

They are wrong - the oysters are the best bit! Chef's secret

[Bluntness100]

None to be honest, it genuinely wouldn’t occur to me to do so, but then I don’t carve it, I put it on the table in a serving dish and we carve at the table.

[TheQueef]

By the time I've sat down to eat I don't want it.
I let everyone think I'm just tired.
Really I've already had my two yorkies that I make extra to check the oven and the gravy. Had my five a day between raw and cooked veg and eaten all the carving trimmings.
Yeah I'm tired.

[JaJaDingDong]

The parson's nose is the chicken's tail. It's disgusting, even though some people will tell you it's the best bit!