no not have pepper in the house?

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I just don't use it in cooking (use many other spices and herbs though).
I threw out a quite dusty packet 10years out of date recently.

relative is visiting and has offered to cook and asked for the pepper.

aibu not to buy any?

what are the bets that my relative will buy us a pepper shaker?

I might be u
but at least there a few others out there who also don't see the point of pepper

Spot on. Their food must be bland and boring as hell.

@Bluebirdover thats my point - I don’t prefer pepper and find that there are much better things to add to my food so rarely use it. OP doesn’t prefer pepper so doesn’t use it. The amount of people expressing incredulity that someone might prefer something else is bizarre.

Yanbu.

If nobody who lives in your house uses pepper then there's no point keeping some around.

If your relative chooses to buy some they can take it home with them so it gets used.

@PyongyangKipperbang I have a couple of friends who don't drink tea but they know how to be a good host, and keep teabags in for visitors. I'm assuming you don't have many tea drinking visitors?

my brother cant stand it - he loves spicy food, loves flavour, is a bit of an amateur chef... he would never have pepper in the house if his wife would let him get away with it.

if you aren't going to use it, don't but any. If they bring some then tell them to take it home with them so it wont get wasted.

Now I want black pepper cashews……..

I used it on everything until it ran out, yes. I love coriander though.

Why wouldn’t you buy something that guests might want? I don’t drink milk or have tea or coffee but I still buy it for others.

I don’t have it in either and don’t use it. I use chillies in cooking for heat.

In June I bought fresh coriander and basil in one of those small plastic pots and planted in bigger pots. They are absolutely huge now, like a big bush. I will pick some and freeze for winter.

I use it several times a week - shook some into mince for meatballs just a couple of hours ago. Quite different from black pepper which I use more often, or whole peppercorns with I include in the base stock if I'm eg poaching a chicken breast.

No-one in our house drinks tea but I keep it in for visitors too. Same with sugar.

I haven't rtft but get a couple of sachets from a cafe

yeah I might do that

Oh we use ground pepper in everything! I actually prefer white pepper but it seems so old school, I don't know why? Can't imagine cooking a spagbol and not grinding in a good whack of pepper. I don't think it makes it spicy, otherwise my "the toothpaste is spicy" kids wouldn't eat it.

White pepper is a crucial ingredient in my mash potato! And I make great mash 😋

Go to a cafe/restaurant and pick up a few sachets when you order a meal.

Same here. And my dh made small potato pancakes from left over mashed potatoes, added extra white pepper and they were sooo good.

Tea loses it flavour after being open for a while, I would literally use it twice a year tops. Then it would go in the bin, such a waste.

The fact you said fragrant put me right of I don't want my food to taste fragrant. I don't like Indian food either. I'd be fuming if someone put oregano on my pizza, I want to taste the pizza if I wanted to taste oregano I eat oregano

I don't have pepper at all, and never have.

Why would I have it when neither DD or me have it in anything? I don't think it's unusual to not have it.

BreadInCaptivity
Each to their own

Just so. If a guest wants pepper on their food, by all means let them have it; if they started putting it on mine, I would object because I dislike the taste of pepper really rather a lot – and yes, I can tell when it has been added while the food is being cooked, because the food then tastes nasty to me.

If someone is cooking in my house as a kindness to me, maybe they should grind their pepper onto their food and not put it into mine! I don't suppose they would go to the house of a vegetarian and cook her a nice juicy steak, or the house of someone with a gluten intolerance and ever so kindly make her a pie with a wheat flour shortcrust pastry.

Imagine making a Spaghetti Cacio e pepe without black pepper..

The triviality/pointlessness of some mumsnetters posts has to be seen to be believed.