Does anyone eat meat anymore without sauces and marinates?

[PassingStranger]

So many different flavors around for meat today.
Sauces, rubs, marinades.
Just wondered does anyone just eat plain meat anymore??

Good steak doesn’t need anything else
Roast chicken - I just insert a whole lemon and onion inside cavity and wrap in foil
Slow roast lamb or beef doesn’t need anything else
Gammon and bacon as they are
I do use rubs on pork though as find it quite bland otherwise

The only meat dishes I eat without sauce are cabbage & ham and sausages & mash. I tend to serve most meat with a gravy or sauce. Even my fry up needs a good dollop of HP or Ballymaloe relish.

I always make ‘proper’ gravy for a roast, but I wouldn’t count that as a sauce.

Well I’m 57 and meat has always come with sauces / gravy. There are a lot more spices used nowadays though. Roast chicken had gravy and bread sauce, apple sauce for pork, mint sauce for lamb and mustard or horseradish for beef, plus gravy of course. And ketchup, brown sauce, salad cream, french dressing, were all available ready made and mass market. I do like plain grilled meat and fish, even then I tend to add chutneys or something, my monthly village market has a stall that sells delicious chutneys.

Then you're cooking it in its own sauce. That's not what the OP is talking about.

TBH I am not sure exactly what the OP is talking about.

I initially thought she meant adding some sort of treatment to the meat before you cook it, i.e. a rub or marinade or cooking it on a distinctive sauce. Something that changes the taste of the meat itself.

However some people on here seem to be assuming that she means things that I would consider as simply accompaniments to plain(ish) meat, as in gravy or horseradish or mint sauce etc.

@PassingStranger Maybe you could come back and clarify what exactly you meant.

Steak, roast chicken, gammon, pork steaks, beef burger in a bun.

Just had a steak for dinner with nothing but black pepper on it.

Yes. Can’t stand gravy. Most sauces are full of sugar and feels like eating meat with marmalade 🤮 (ketchup, bbq, brown etc)

Yes. Steak, Pork chops, Lamb I'm happy to have without any fancy marinades etc
Can't beat a bit of garlic butter on steak though

Chicken wings roasted with just salt.

Steak too but that will have pepper and garlic powder.

Lamb gets coated with crushed garlic, oil and herbs then gravy at the end unless it's lamb chops then just salt and pepper.

Roast chicken and beef with just salt and pepper but again there is usually gravy unless it's chicken, new potatoes and vegetables.

Plain plain meat is boring, it at least needs salt and pepper as does anything unless it's already salty (bacon/gammon/sausages) Plus unless it's in a sandwich then sausages always go with gravy.

I'm getting memories of being served a dry roast. No gravy offered. No apple sauce etc. The pork was really chewy.
Fortunately some ketchup was avaliable for the toddler so I had to resort to using that to make it viable to chew and swallow.

I was suprised that the pork was actually turkey.

A steak... Just steak. I'll make sure the salad is tasty though.

A roast - chicken, lamb, beef - rosemary and garlic for lamb. Chicken and beef in own juices.

Chicken breasts are notoriously dull on their own so go in a curry, or get a good bashing and some peri peri sauce.

Ham hock... Plain is fine. Nobody wants the scored fat with honey anyway.

Pork chops. Just chops.

I don't know it's so confusing and I got a freezer full of bloody fish.

I'm going to bed 🤣

I don't if it's higher quality meat that actually has it's own flavour.

Unfortunately, most meat these days is bland so you need to enhance it to give it some flavour, with sauces, marinades, etc.

Yes, absolutely. Good quality meat doesn't need anything more than salt ajd pepper. I'm spoilt though as I eat home grown farm meat, if I was cooking crsppy supermarket stuff I imagine I'd have to be more creative to make it pleasant!
Roasting joints of pork, beef, lamb and whole poultry I roast just with salt and pepper.
Chicken portions ditto. Chicken breast ir steak are amazing fried in butter.
Tbh the only times I add flavouring/other seasonings to meat is if I am making a mince n tomato type meal (bolognese, chilli, cottage pie etc) or chicken in a curry.

It's a sad, sad world when you can't imagine making a marinade from scratch

My bbq marinade is honey, pineapple, salt, smoked paprika and lime or vinegar. I marinade chicken thighs in buttermilk, tumeric, cumin, ginger and garlic. Where is the UPF

that is not what I said at all.

I meant the ready marinated meat you can buy which is referenced up thread

We had a costco chicken and ate most of it on dinner rolls.
It had some salt put on but that was all.

Just wondered does anyone just eat plain meat anymore??

Ehn you say "anymore" was there a time people eat plain meat?

Definitely me!

The only sauces I eat are either apple sauce with pork or parsley sauce with fish. Meat just has plain gravy for me.

I can't bear marinades, sauces etc. and have a particular loathing for garlic.🤮🤮🤮

I’m loving the faux ‘shock’ that people can eat meat without it being marinaded first.

”What do you mean, ‘plain’? Surely nobody has even eaten PLAIN meat!”

If you buy decent quality meat, there's no need to drench it in sauces and marinades.

I just use salt with steaks.

I don't like gravy, but then I don't like roast diners.

It's not faux. I don't think I ever had (ok bar steak actually) plain meat served in UK. It always comes with something like gravy or condiments or it is marinated and/or cooked with herbs and/or spices.
Even my childhood outside UK in CE I don't remember just plain meat.

Yes.

I don't buy marinaded meats. But we will make our own rubs or sauces. We regularly have a roast sunday lunch and that will be served with homemade proper gravy, made with the meat juices, but the joint itself usually would only have maybe salt/pepper or a little olive oil.