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?

My grandma's were the best. My mum wasn't a great cook. Neither am I tbf. My DH usually does the roast dinners as a result.

Dear God, no. She was a terrible cook. Dad's roasts (the meat part) are pretty good although he serves mushy veg. And his mashed potato is a bit tasteless because he doesn't put butter into it.

Yep, my mum's were fantastic but her cottage pie is literally the best thing I've ever tasted.

My mum used to make fabulous roasts but made such a palaver over it, shouting at people to get out of the kitchen, plating each meal individually so noone got their meal at the same time etc...

Anyway, age has caused her to lose all her cooking skills and now i cook instead. My roasts are great. I make gravy the way she did and it is delicious!

My mums roast is sensational - wider family talk about it as well

Not my Mum's, but my Nan's was the best! No one can do roasties quite the same

My mums roast is the best in the world. Without a shadow of a doubt.

But now mine is the best in the world because I've perfected her methods!

I wish it were the case. Unfortunately my mum is limited in use of the oven because of her back problems restricting her ability to lift things. So have not had a roast from her for many years.

No my mum can't cook a roast dinner. Hard dry meat left to go cold, watery gravy and roast potatoes not cooked enough to go crispy. My grandma did the best roast dinner, used to love going to her house every Sunday for it. I'm not bad at doing a roast myself.

My mum finds cooking boring, and it shows - especially now that she has the option of using Aunt Bessie's frozen stuff in place of proper roasties or Yorkshires.

Mind you my gran on my dad's side was a positively terrible cook (sliceable gravy, literal rock cakes, UFM breakfasts - Unidentifiable Fried Matter) so even my mum's cooking seems brilliant to him

No, my mum has to serve things up at a precise time and serve it up she would done or not. She stopped cooking decades ago though.

My dad's version of cooking is very, ahem, experimental. Not the good type. They spend a lots of time eating snacks and treats. I think that is why.

I don't think my mum ever made a roast dinner, maybe at Christmas? Having a Sunday roast wasn't really a thing. She made food, we ate it. I was the youngest and my older brothers were chefs so we mostly ate their meals from when I can remember, over age 10 really.

I moved out at age 18 so cooked mostly for myself after that.

I miss many things about my mum but roast dinners or cooking in general don't really feature.

I do think we get used to the food that we experienced most and I think the comfort thing is probably true.

Mine is probably a chopped soft boiled egg in a cup with toast soldier's. Or maybe chips done in a proper chip pan.

In both dh's and my childhoods it was our dads who did most of the everyday cooking, and I definitely think my dad's pot-roast chicken or pork beats any roast I've ever had elsewhere, though FIL's roasts were also good. Dh's mum was an absolutely awful cook, my mum was very good but usually cooked only for parties and special occasions because she was usually busy with other work in the evenings. My dad has never been an inventive cook, but has got very skilled at doing the standard dishes.

No my mum is a rubbish cook, she cooks a chicken for 3 hours, beef till its hard and boils veg till its mushy.
Mine is better!
My MIL made lovely meat, but the rest was aunt bessies frozen stuff, such a waste!

I bought an £80 joint of beef as a birthday present for my dad. I'd never spent more than £15 on a joint at this point.

My mum cooked it and after cooking in the oven for a bit thought it was ok to microwave it for ten minutes as it wasn't quite done...

I still haven't recovered from this!

Yup. By my Mam's own admission she isn't a great cook, but her roasts are banging. I can sometimes get yorkshires the same as hers, her gravy is always the BEST gravy I can literally drink it out of a cup but she makes it old school with proper gravy salt and everything. She actually found me some and gave me two boxes and it's helped but not quite as good as hers. Plus she always has mushy peas on a roast, which is very controversial but oh so nostalgic.

No. Mum is a vegetarian and a rubbish cook.

Plus she gets vegetable gravy and makes it really watery.

No, my mum doesn't enjoy cooking and it shows. She finds it stressful to coordinate all the different parts so would cook the meat first and plate it up. The plates would then be put on the kitchen window sill while she cooked the rest of the meal so you'd get stone cold plates of meat with hot veg etc on it. She's also of that generation who is partial to a soft, overcooked vegetable.

God no

I can't make Yorkshires like my mum could, but my dad liked his beef carbonised Well Done, so that's how we all had to have it. My DH always waxed lyrical about his mum's gravy, and however hard I tried, mine never matched it. I asked her once what her secret was. When she'd finished laughing, she said, instant Bisto! She did make lovely roast dinners though.
And no. My DH cannot make gravy.

I left home believing veg for Sunday lunch was put on the hob at 7am. My lovely mum was no cook bless her.

My mum and both my grandmas make fantastic roast dinners! I quite like my own but find cooking a complete chore.

My mum can't cook, I think the thought of cooking stresses her out quite a bit. DH's roasts are amazing. Whenever we visit them, he cooks every single meal.

It's definitely more about comfort than quality with my Mum. Her roasts are good because they were what I always knew. Her meat is over cooked, her veg is mushy but it's my Mum's roast dinner. I have an old casserole pot of my late MiL and no matter what I cook in it it smells like Sunday at her house.

I consider myself a very good roast cook, I would never dream of going out to eat one. It's an institution in my house and I execute them very well!

My mums roasts are good but actually I think mine are better.

I hate going out for a carvery or roast dinner. They are always disappointing. The last one I had out everything was cooked badly.