to hide the flipping condiments?

[winobaglady]

Every. Flickin. Meal,
I dish up in the kitchen and before tasting he grinds pepper over whatever I've cooked.
I don't cook every night, but when I do AIBU in expecting him to taste it first?
His parents are the same when they visit. Dish up, straight onto the salt and pepper. AIBU to think it's rude?

I have never given this a moment's thought in my entire life. DH COVERS every meal in salt whether I think it needs it or not. It's never crossed my mind to be offended. Now I'm wondering lol

I don't think it's rude, and Now that you have said you don't salt or pepper food while cooking, I definitely do not think he is rude at all. If he knows you don't and knows he likes pepper on his food, why taste first?

Strikethrough fail. I should go to bed

I can't abide sugar in hot drinks, but i wouldn't chuck a hissy fit if I made someone a tea/coffee and they added sugar hmm

But that's not what were talking about is it? It's making the tea (which may already have sugar) and the other person always claiming they want one more sugar, no matter how much is already there.

However, if you don't like how the food is prepared in one restaurant, don't go back. How on earth are you ever supposed to try anything new if you assume everything has to taste the way you always have it. It's bizarre.

So if I was perfectly happy with a meal other than thinking that, for my personal taste, it needed a little extra salt or pepper, I should stop eating in that restaurant? THAT'S bizarre.

YABU. You say you don't season the food when cooking, so of course he automatically adds seasoning to your food when you dish up a meal. I'd do the same, I don't like bland food.

I've never understood this idea of eating food the way you like it as being rude. I like my food very salty, i know other people do not, so they won't add as much salt to food as I like, so i add more. Do i taste it first? No, because experience has taught me there is no such thing as too salty in my world. My dinner, my choice.

After all, how does he know I haven't used salt and pepper in the cooking (ok, so I don't but still...). Bleugh. No wonder he needs to autocondiment.

I do it. If you can eat it; it's not salty enough for me.

with Great Fuckability.

GreatFuck exactly! I think it's weird and rude to dictate WHEN someone puts seasoning on their food!

You are announcing that you think your host cannot cook. That they haven't prepared the meal correctly. There's a reason many high end restaurants don't have salt on the table because the assumption is that the chef will have prepared the meal with the correct amount of seasoning. To ask for salt is to assume he or she cannot do their job properly

What a load of crap, there is no such thing as a 'correct' amount of seasoning for a start. its a matter of personal taste. when i salt my food its because I LIKE salt, it casts no aspersions on the chef, and if you are so precious and insecure about your ability thats your issue, not mine.

I don't add salt to everything, but equally I don't mind if visitors add salt to their meal.
Why would you? Personal preference, surely?!

I will quite literally sit and eat salt. a little pile of salt. perhaps a tomato to dip in my salt. yum. Salt rules.

and before anyone tells me how unhealthy it is...I know. I don't care.

I couldn't really enjoy most meals cooked without seasoning, so YABU.

MrsTP...come to my salt house and lick my walls.

I wish i really had salty walls.

But you haven't added salt, so he's doing it?! I'm confused!

I fucking love salt and coat it on everything, although I wouldn't do that if someone else has cooked for me. I mean, I do if it's close family members but not, say, at a dinner party.

GreatFuckability I shall come and kick your walls. That came out wrong

I salt bacon, pepperoni and I salt salted popcorn. I also have optimal blood pressure.

Honestly, it's a compliment for me to over-salt. That means the food you made is perfect for normal people.

You need salt to properly bring out the taste of any spices you're using yellow.

It IS rude! DP gets through a horrendous number of peppercorns because he puts tons of the stuff on everything he eats, always before tasting whatever it is. But to be fair to him I grew up not putting salt or pepper on anything and still don't really, and wouldn't add it when cooking unless it is in the recipe. In my opinion most food doesn't need it and I think for many people it is just habit that all food has to be served with lashings of salt and pepper.

It's bad manners, and I judge people for doing it tbh. Yanbu.

Salt and pepper aren't condiments.

Dh covers everything in mayo, salad cream or brown sauce. Drives me fucking insane. They are condiments that deserve to be hidden, apart from when chips are involved.

I pepper everything, I love pepper. Especially on my Sunday dinner.

Love pepper

Hate my DC drowning everything in ketchup/bbq sauce. No you cannot have sauce on your macaroni cheese

I sort of get the claims about it being rude when it's someone who's cooking you've never tasted before, and personally I try not to use much table salt on my food for health reasons (which incidentally is one of the reasons it's important to use a bit in cooking unless you really can't have salt at all: a pinch during the preparation process goes further than the same pinch when the dish is cooked). But when it's someone whose cooking you know well, and you know it's not been seasoned because it never is, how is that rude?