I'm genuinely horrified!

[Idreamofparis]

I do most of the cooking at home, which is fine. My husband will do some basic meals, also fine.
Tonight I made some Korean vegetable pancakes that my girls like. Also made some pork.
As my husband doesn't like the pancakes, I asked what veggies he'd like to do for himself.
He proceeded to boil some mushrooms!
I'm genuinely horrified. He said he likes them.
Is this a thing? Do people eat plain boiled mushrooms?
What ways of cooking foods weird you out?

I wouldn’t boil, I’d fry in some butter and basically make them not healthy anymore 👌🏻😂 Plain boiled mushrooms sounds like prison food!

Raw mushrooms are great! In salad, or used to scoop hummus.

If he boiling mushrooms he Dosen’t sound like an egg n chips type of man

Ha are we married to the same DH?! I've never come across this before except when DH does steak and chips he insists on doing boiled mushrooms with it. It's actually fine! I love mushrooms in all their forms. They're not squelchy as you would quarter them and they're actually a much better texture than sliced and sauteed which are mainly tasty for the butter, garlic and copious salt that I add.

Fried yes. Boiled, bleurgh!

I boil mushrooms!

Add them to noodles prawns stock etc to make a Thai or Japanese style broth

For all of you dissing boiled mushrooms, have you tried them.

To be fair I season the water with salt, pepper and garlic -but thy taste better than fried (I was quite surprised but saw it on a cooking show).

Mmm. My Polish grandmother used to get proper field mushrooms sent over from Poland in the 70s and 80s. They were either boiled or fried. Boiling was in milk, I think. Both yummy, but I preferred fried for the texture.

Not what Nature intended.

Yes but that’s allowed because you’re ‘boiling’ nice flavours into the mushrooms and also not pouring away all the mushroom’ness at the end either.

Was that a poor attempt at humour, or were you trying to be a dick?

I only boil mushrooms for a cooked breakfast. But anything else I saute them.🤣🤣🤣

That's gross, wtf boils mushrooms??

I steam them, sort of the same thing. They're fine. I have also poached in milk and butter, not as keen on that.

https://www.standard.co.uk/going-out/foodanddrink/boil-mushrooms-chef-recipe-a4475911.html

The Chinese use plain boiled mushrooms in some dishes.

Goodness me! What would provoke such an unnecessarily nasty comment? Who pissed in your cornflakes?!

I’d take him for every feckin penny !!!!

Did you know he didn't like pancakes and then had him do his own side dish? 😂

If you fry mushrooms, they take up a lot of butter/oil. You can start them off by boiling/simmering and then finish them off by frying and it uses much less fat and still tastes like you fried them all the way.

Also, if you simmer shiitakes, you get an amazingly tasty broth that you can either drink as is or use as stock for something else.

Always had mushrooms boiled in milk as a child.The juice soaked into the buttered toast,delicious.

LTB... Crimes against mushrooms!!! Lightly fried in butter, yes! Boiled? Pack yer bags mate!!!

It's a hard way to find out you've married a psycho but there we go, it should have been a question you asked in the first couple of dates really

@fivebyfivebuffy
i remember braised celery as a dish when I was a kid. Was it for an elderly person? It reminds me of how it was usual to eat things simply.

My grandmother used to do this and serve them with white sauce as a veg, I detested it... Absolutely gross, something about the taste, it changes when you boil it! I've only just started adding finely sliced celery to stew, I can cope with that as it's in gravy! But boiled as a veg, nope!

Which us why they're like wee flavourless slugs in lots of hotels, even though mushrooms on toast is my favourite breakfast at home. World of difference in flavour.