Does everyone think their Mum’s roast is the best in the world?

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My mum is a good home cook. Not fancy but I always like her food. However when’s it comes to a roast, nothing else has ever come close. To be honest she cooks a pretty bog standard roast, but she does it just the way I like it. I have never had one I prefer, she taught me to make a roast but it’s still not as good as hers. I would never order a roast when eating out because I know it just wouldn’t compete. I think it’s about the comfort of it as much as the taste. Does everyone else think like this?

No... I would go so far to say my roasts are better than my mums and they're definitely better than my MILs (DH willingly agrees). However my Dad's are way better than mine, they are amazing!

My mum makes the best lasagne though and MIL is an awesome baker who makes the lightest most delicious cakes I've ever eaten so between us we've got most basics covered Lucky grandchildren.

Good God no!

My mother's mother taught her. She taught my mother. My mother taught me and her other three daughters. And I have taught mine. There was a faint effort at teaching a son about forty years ago, but although he got gravy right he epically failed on roast potatoes.

No. My mum's is shite 😂
My Gran's however is to die for, heading for 90 and suffers dreadfuly from arthritis but still she manages to make one every week without fail.

Nope. My roasts are the best but my Dad's benefit from the fact that I don't have to do the work!

Dad's Mum was a terrible cook. Her 'roasts' involved beef cremated to matchsticks, potatoes crisped in the chip pan and gravy that was salty thick to the point of spreadable. I loved them though

I believe the current generation sons will be shown how to do it, but since none of them are more than about six years old it may be a while yet.

Mum is vegetarian. I do not like nut roast. Also she can't cook for shit, and I suspect is vegetarian to avoid having to work out how to cook meat nicely.

Nope as we always had to go out to a pub or carvery to have a roast, it wasn't a home cooked thing in my childhood.

No my mums is terrible.

Gosh no!! My mum can't cook at all

Nope my mums roast was awful. She was not a great cook but she made amazing cakes. She is still here but doesn't cook her dementia has progressed.

Mine is the best 😁

No, mine is better. Mums is average, mils is always overcooked, dhs is ok.

My mum's are terrible. It's probably alright when she first cooks it, but for some reason she has to transfer the cooked vegetables into slow cookers or warmers before serving it. She'll cook it normally at about 9am, then it's sits babbling away and turning to mush until 2ph-ish when she's finished cooking the meat that should have been taken out at 12 but wasn't because she found an endless amount of faffing to do while it was cooking. (Like going up into the loft to find the Christmas napkin holders, or looking for the gravy recipe her great aunt wrote on an envelope in 1958)

Hell no. Mum's approach to cooking was cook it until it's dead and then give it half an hour extra to make sure. Roast beef was cooked the day before and served in thick slices straight from the fridge because she couldn't carve. To say you could sole boots with it is an understatement.

My roast is the best ever according to my kids. But Grandma's Shepherds pie pisses all over mine... I'm happy with that!

The best roast dinner is made by both of my parents. They each have their speciality and do the best roast dinner ever. I can only hope to replicate it one day

Yes my mum's cooking generally was delicious but her roasts were much better than mine, and much much better than dh's
I still order roast dinners but they are never as good as my mum's used to be and we were a Sunday afternoon roast every week family

No, bless her. She’s a lovely woman but mum’s cooking is so so bland because she thinks sauces or herbs etc detract from the taste of the main food. My childhood involved eating lots of grilled drypork chops and plain mash (with a small amount I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter), or shepherd’s pie made with the aforementioned mash and with plain cooked mince, no carrots or onions or herbs mixed in with the it. There’d be veg on the side though, always peas and carrots only. No mayonnaise or other condiments in the house besides ketchup for if we had fish and chips. No curries, Chinese food or pasta.

Apparently I went to a birthday party at an Italian restaurant aged about 7 and came home stuffed to the gills with lasagne and garlic bread - I’d never had anything like it before!

No. My mum's cooking is pretty dire.

No it's hella bland!
My MIL's is divine though. She's Jamaican and jerks the roast chicken and it is lush.

Yes.

And the biggest compliment I ever got from her was when she came for Sunday Lunch and said 'mmmmm this tastes like my roast'. And it did. She is gone now, but her roast lives on through me.

Nope! My mum has never cooked a roast.

1. We are veggies

2.she can’t (be bothered to) ocook beyond heating things up.

No, not that I've had one for years but they are nothing special. DMIL (RIP) was even worse, like school dinners.

My mum's Yorkshires, roast potatoes and gravy were the best. I've never come close and in a good cook. Her potatoes would be so crunchy the outside was almost like glass. And her yorkshires were the perfect balance of height, crunch and doughy-but- cooked base.