To think this is not how you eat stuffing?!

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We went to a friend's for lunch today. She cooked a lovely roast (I'm not complaining.)

She mixed the stuffing with hot water and let it sit. I assumed it would go in the oven as I do with mine and as it states on the packet. When the food was ready to serve, she brought the bowl of stuffing out!! It had not been in the oven and didn't taste great.

I've never know anyone do this before!!

AIBU to think this is not the norm?

Whaaaat?! Noooo.

I've just added sage and onion stuffing to my Asda shop.

I always have a packet of stuffing in the cupboard for quick midweek cheat roasts, or chicken and stuffing sarnies, I thought this was normal but clearly not!
(Btw, if you sprinkle a bit on the batter before you put toad in the hole in the oven it's great)

A friend used to prepare packet stuffing like that - but add more water so it was more like bread sauce. It was beyond awful. My children were very good at not making a fuss when eating out but their faces when this arrived on preplated Sunday lunches were quite something - and then her children tucked in with gusto. What you are used to I suppose but it really was herb accented wallpaper paste.

I haven't seen paxo in over 40 years. They used to advertise it on TV but my mother wouldn't let it cross the threshold. Is it still that luminous orange colour?

My mom used to put it in the gravy

www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/paxo-sage---onion-stuffing-85g

Clearly you cook it! Raw stuffing - bleurgh.

Luminous orange stuffing mix?

I don’t remember that and I’m a child of the ‘70s when almost everything was orange.

Are you thinking of breadcrumbs?

It's Sunday. Ice had too much wine for 🕖. Pm. I now have munchies for stuffing cooked or otherwise... Sigh. As you were.

This thread has made me long for a Christmas leftovers sandwich. Brie, home made cranberry sauce, cold leftover stuffing and ideally, leftover cold roast potatoes. In squidgy white bread. Sigh.

mmmmm..... I love stuffing! (But not cooked like that!!)

IMHO it's not actually "stuffing" if it hasn't been stuffed up the back end of a bird and roasted.

I have beenknown to make my own stuffung (breadcrumbs sage onion sausage meat, chestnuts if its Christmas). But i am more fond of paxo type pre made stuffing. I always put half an onion, micro with a splash of water to soften, then add sausage meat to the mush. I bake it separately as i like a crispy top. Do extra so ive got enough for sandwiches.

Uncooked stuffing or even stuffing without sausage meat not so good

You're friend is BU for serving up packet dried stuffing however she bloody prepared it.

I grew up with stuffing like this! Made in a glass IIRC. Stuffing was a real treat so no complaints here 😁

I can vouch from the mid eighties on paxo was not orange. In fact paxo has never changed.

I love threads like this.

Paxo you say? Water??? Never heard of it

Back on topic... yanbu. The crispier the better!

@AimlesslyPurposeful - Are you thinking of breadcrumbs?

Maybe I am. Were there packets of luminous orange dried breadcrumbs?

I do my stuffing like Zen I add sausage meat so mine uncooked would probably kill you
But it could have been worse my mum makes hers into balls and deep fries it.

Stuffing is what you stuff inside a bird or a joint of meat. If you buy or make something with the same ingredients, but don't use it to stuff something, then it's not stuffing, it's a sort of savoury loaf.

I want stuffing on buttered cream crackers with a ton of salt now (yes I know I'm weird).

I make it like this when I do chicken, bacon and stuffing sandwiches. They are yum!

TheyMadeMeJoin - Yes. They came in a tub and were the colour of fish fingers.

My mum regularly ruined Skate by covering it in those tasteless tartrazined bits of grit and frying it.

My mother was not averse to using packets (bread sauce and parsley sauce being two particular horrors) but she always made stuffing, usually with blood and bits of skin in it from grating the last bit of bread for the breadcrumbs.

I have to say, stuffing is so quick and easy to make that I don't see the point in using a packet.

It was paxo here