AIBU or has the world (in particular Sainsbury's) gone mad?

[bellamcpoopants]

Please see exhibit A (I have highlighted the offending terms).

AIBU - since when have 'ovenable' and indeed 'cook out' been acceptable terms to use as part of cooking instructions?

Ovenable, well that's a new one on me

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Ovenable?!

They even had to explain in brackets what 'cook out' means

It's like they've made up their own new Sainsburys language!

Maybe the author was mid-migraine?!

It's in the dictionary!

www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ovenable

Ovenable I use words like that all the time!

Cook out is ridiculous. If they have to define their own terms that is just bollox. Do you think it's been translated or something and the person translating has added the brackets to help us?

Ovenable is a 'thing' - technical packaging term.

I use the term 'ovenable' all the time! I did think I had made it up, though...meaning capable of being cooked in the oven.

'Cook out' is a technical term too
(also taps nose knowingly)

"Cook out" had me baffled

Yy, what on earth was wrong with saying ovenproof?

Ovenable is something people might say but mostly it would be written ovenproof.

Cook out makes zero sense in the context, so much so they've had to add an explanation on brackets! If you have to explain a word in cooking instructions for a ready meal, don't use it. Especially if you've made up a new meaning for that word that makes no sense.

NOOOOOOO to 'ovenable'

Juices is a much more appetising term than "cook out".

Until you say the word too much then it becomes a bit like moist.

As Moving has said, cook out is the American term for BBQ and I notice the word 'Texas' at the top of the label - it's as if they have just directly taken the wording from an existing American product!

I didn't think anything could be worse than their food dancing but you may have found it OP!

I once asked someone in Tescos if they had cloves. He obviously had no friggin idea what I was on about as he suggested the cleaning products aisle.

When I told him he was a spice he tried to cover up his lack of knowledge by impressing me with supermarket speak:

"I'm sorry we're not ranged for that madam".

To the posters saying 'cook out' is an American word for Barbecue, how does that make these instructions make any sense?

The instructions say to add 5 tablespoons of the cook out (liquid in pouch) to the ovenable tray...

If I swap 'cook out' with BBQ, the sentence reads add 5 tablespoons of the BBQ to the ovenable tray

Well you can't see the full title but it looks like Texas barbecue - and I'm assuming the next bit is sauce. Is it a pre-cooked joint, and they are implying that the cookout bit is juice from the cooking process bet it wasn't a BBQ either Even more confusingly, the actual (BBQ) sauce is in a separate pouch.

It's not clear, is it?!

Ovenable, at least people won't try using a plastic tea tray in the oven. Imagine the smell if they did.