Cooking related terms that make you squirm (title edited by MNHQ at request of OP)

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Sides. No. It is side dishes. See also mains (Shudder)

I made lamb at Easter. No, you cooked it.

Cooked to your liking. Well they woudn't deliberately cook it otherwise if they wanted to stay in business...

I cancelled my London trip for December yesterday, that helped 😎

I’ve never liked the term serve.
When Dh says ‘come and serve’ it just makes me feel weird. No reason why.
Never liked the words coddle or blanch either.
Pretty much detest any of the words Grace Dent uses to describe food.

I'm so pleased. Sometimes you have to put your own wellbeing first.

Any plans for travelling elsewhere? I know the local Super-U in France hadn't progressed to pittas. Sorry Pitas. I was bitterly disappointed not to find medium sliced white.
We had to eat bread that was shaped like a big stick!

I know!

At least yours only had an extra T. Huh.

Biccies.

I hate the word biccies. It gives me toddler jamming pre-chewed rusks into your mouth while dribbling vibes. Urgh.

As a complete aside, what was the typo in the thread title? The word that sprung into my head would have ensured a very different thread I feel..... 😆

Flavourful.

Have no idea why but it sets my teeth on edge!

Exactly 😎My nerves just can't handle any more "pitta"!

Well, I grew up baking pita at home, so I never choose my travel destinations based on their supermarket choice of pita - that's just a massive downgrade 😇 But my next trip so happens to be to Greece, where they pronounce pita correctly, of course😍

The only extra T I want is an extra cup of chamomile tea 🤓

Tommy K instead of ketchup!

Doesn’t this just mean pan fried as opposed to deep fried? Do you also object to shallow fried or sautéed? (Full disclosure: I really can’t bear sautéed or shallow fried but I actually don’t mind pan fried).

Umm… you wouldn’t happen to have recipe? I’ll spell it anyway you want (although am in the 1 “T” camp)

Now I think about it, I'm not a fan of "tossed". Has the salad had to be gathered up from counter top and floor? Or should I be expecting to receive it like an enthusiastic performing seal? Or have a baseball mitt ready?

Also "slathered". And "lashings".

Got to be Xmas and ‘all the trimmings’ !

Oh God yes - trimmings makes me think toe nails.

This made me laugh, but I think this means as opposed to "ideal for baking" 😀

Dh suggested to me the other night that I could ‘flash fry’ something. I was like ‘errr no Fanny Craddock. It’s not 1973! ‘ 🤣

I dislike the word nourish
Tbf it's even worse when not talking about food, eg nourishing the soul

' Folding in the cheese' was one of the most hilarious scenes in Schitt's Creek!

'Okay, I don't know how to fold broken cheese like that!'

we have several ‘Fish & Chippery’ places round our way (Oz!). I don’t know if they think it sounds posh but you’re a chipper mate, get over yourself 😆

Nope - completely fine with shallow fried or sautéed as that’s a description of a method not the receptacle. And in most cases it’s not stuff that would ever be deep fried - trout, sea bass etc. And don’t get me started on “oven-baked” - well yes I suppose they could have used a microwave or a clay pit or the burning fires of hell but again surely in most cases it goes without saying.🤣

Oven baked is ridiculous! I’ve also encountered the similarly stupid oven roasted.

Mouthful
Dish up
scrummy

I would love your in laws.really jealous of you tbh.

A deep fat fryer

Yeah these are all terrible but I’m really upset with you for introducing me to ‘food line’ as a concept because that’s really terrible.

“Elevated” food
”My style as a chef is good food cooked well”
Espuma. I just call it “flob”
a “slap-up meal”

also hate “dirty” food but equally “clean eating”