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...

Set up. Jelly sets, it doesn't set up.
Fry off. Just fry.
Roasted (it's 'roast chicken', 'roast beef').

You see I don’t buy this. The kind of things that are typically “pan fried” are fish like trout, salmon etc. or steak which would surely only be deep fried in some weird elitist Glasgow chippy with a side of mars bar. And also my mum did her deep frying in the chip pan. If she had ever lost her mind and added a fillet of chalk stream rainbow trout to her usual king Edwards it would still have been pan fried so it’s not even a suitably specific description. Can’t believe I’m so exercised about this!🤣

Dessert. It's pudding. Dessert means fruit.

Sweet. It's still pudding.

PUDDING.

Pud is acceptable.

Adjectives on menus. Freshly picked locally sourced silken moist mouth watering aaaaaarg.

'Grazing' table/ boards, sounds very farm yard! Plus the thought of having other people 'grazing ' off said tables and boards 🤮🤮. Also 'eateries'. I don't know why, it just sets my teeth on edge.

Pizza pronounced 'Pitsa'. It's PEETSA.

Chorizo pronounced 'Choritso'. It's CHOREETHO. Spanish.

Herb pronounced 'Urrrrrrrrrrb', Americans, NO.

I am SO ANGRY now, it's nearly 1.00am and I probably WON'T SLEEP and I hope you're all satisfied.

Oh, and those poncy menus which don’t actually tell you what the dish is, just lists a couple of ingredients.

”Trout, miso, rhubarb”

When I was in in A&E once very embarrassed with a 'lost' tampon, the receptionist breezily announced we've got a bloke in with an apple stuck up his bum so don't worry.

And relax....

I'd happily eat pita in Greece. I'd just happily exist in Greece.
However, here I must remain in the Midlands of England with our shoddy pittas. To be fair they are shoddy. No supermarket pit(t)a can be filled with anything as it is like trying to fill a cobweb.

As per the other poster, please do share your recipe and if I manage to even make one then I shall forever be converted.

Do bear in mind I failed at flatbreads. I'm an enforced low carb-er 😂.

Enjoy Greece - send olives! Proper ones, not the ollives you get here 😎

Chicken is something that can be pan fried, deep fried or even air fried. If someone offered me “fried chicken” my assumption would be that it was deep fried so actually pan fried would be a useful description.

I'll pan fry chicken if I've bashed a breast flat with a rolling pin and marinated it in something.

That's my usual go to actually unless it's going to be a curry.

I agree fried chicken leans towards floured and deep fried.

Snotty egg .. makes me heave 😩 🤮

This is totally irrational and I’m not expecting any support but I hate the expression ‘sea food’. Don’t know why, just sets my teeth on edge.

Definitely ’meal’. The worst.
I once went to a very fancy restaurant that served ‘pea foam’.
Also hate ‘dessert’ and I worry about ‘hotpot’
And ‘vino’. Fuck off.

Brush-etta.

It's Brusk-etta.

Ya moron.

I hate with a passion nom nom.

What really grinds my gears is watching a recipe video and people having abysmal skills for basics such as hand mixing in a bowl, using multiple unnecessary containers and then not scraping them out properly. The worst is the obsession with using an ice cream scoop for biscuits, muffins and cake batters. Then the American abominations where made from scratch equals opening various pre made packages, placing together in an alfoil tray and putting a revolting concoction in the oven.

I saw an influencer say ‘nngnngnngnng’ about food recently.

Cheeky

Foodie

I hate ‘rank’. I know it’s an expression of disgust but can’t you use other words.

To be fair, pita from shops are pretty bad anywhere in the world, not just in the UK. I'm currently travelling but will definitely post my very easy pita recipe when I'm home next week 😉I will even throw in a great recipe for a traditional Greek olive-based recipe that's to die for 😃

I shout, 'Food's up!'

It's a Michelin experience eating at my house.

I hate that too. It's even worse when spelled 'bickies' <<scream>>

@k1233 they do go for some revolting combos!!

Someone must have mentioned jus

It’s only used on menus though where you can generally tell by the other ingredients whether it’s deep fried or not, or on master chef etc when you can see what it is.
Nobody in their own home is giving it pan fried chicken breast on a bed of creamed potatoes and a white wine jus, hopefully.

"Loaded" haha, anywhere I've been that served this they really mean "Sprinkled"

I defended jus a few pages back, And pompusly explained thé différence between jus, sauce and gravy.