autocondimentors

[BoyFromTheBigBadCity]

I have shamelessly stolen this term from Terry Pratchett.

I do most of the cooking in my house as I quite enjoy it and am not in work right now so have the time to do lots of different things.I do my best to make interesting, tasty meals from scratch. Aibu to want to tear my hair out and to throw things when without even tasting it, someof my fanuky put loads of salt, pepper, mustard, pickle and ketchup (or Mayo if fish) all over a meal I've put time and effort into cooking? This happens even if there is sauce.

I know that sometimes those things do make it better, but is it so much to ask that my family at least TRY the food before covering it in stuff?

I don't even autocondiment chips. And they never have enough salt. Was it Marco Pierre White or Gordon Ramsay who kicked off in a restaurant?

I hate autocondimentation. In fact, I am pretty judgey about the addition of sauces to food in general - ketchup is for chips and fried breakfast only, mayo for chips and salad.

Long ago I went out with a bloke who 'couldn't eat dry food'. He put chuffing salad cream on a lovingly made spaghetti carbonara

Carbonara is not dry! It's got carbonara on it! Argh!

YABU! They know how you cook and they know how they like to eat their food. It's not a criticism because they don't actually expect you to do food how you don't like it yourself. Do they not thank you for the food?

Grew up eating what I was given, and adding anything wasn't an option. I suppose I passed this on so we don't own a cruet set ( is that the right term?). If cooking for friends and they ask for salt I have to pass them the tub is sea salt I use in cooking! I have never added salt to a served meal in my life.
Dcs can be a bit Ott with the ketchup mind you and I use coarse grain mustard in pretty much every savoury dish when I'm cooking.