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...

Lug. FFS

Meeeeaaal. Meals are for people who must have three meeeals a day and there are set things that are breakfast and lunch and dinner (tea) meeeeals.

Fuck knows but marry me chicken looks absolutely rank and if DH had presented me with that then I definitely wouldn't have married him 😂

Slower cooker ‘dump’ or ‘dump and go’ bags / meals 🤢

A roast with ‘all the trimmings’. There’s something so smug about it. Like, well done you, you made some yorkshires.

And ‘lashings’ of anything. Blah.

• "Om nom nom"
• "Lube", when referring to oil, as a pp said (I follow an otherwise very good chef on Insta who does this and it's ughhhh).
• That bloke on Insta who puts everything in a massive burrito and narrates with a weird poem.
• Really obnoxious beardy chefs who come back from abroad with inspiration and then claim they've basically introduced a particular concept to the UK.
• "Proper", as in "proper fish and chips", ""proper pub grub" etc.
• Restaurants that trade on nothing but the fact their steaks are enormous when the rest of their food is very average.

I thought mesclun was just French for mixed leaves?

Jus

It's a frikking sauce!

At the kids school now every dinner is 'rice bowl', 'noodle bowl', 'Mexican blow'... even the kids find this patronising and annoying!

Dump cake. Doesn't sound too appealing to me! 🤑

DH says he is "going for a dump" when heading to the loo with his phone

'cookery' instead of 'cooking' mainly said by the Master Chef twats.
'She's done a lovely bit of cookery there...'

But I pull the pork apart with two forks, so it literally is pulled.

Not keen on using the verb " offer " for serving/ cooking/ making meals or whatever. I know a lot of people find the word " meal/s" off putting, but I'm OK with it.

You sure it’s not just gravy?

Shredded is better than pulled I think.
Offer or offering. Ugh.

I read this as the cheese lounge from the 'A viscous attack' thread.

Must be hungry...

I hate "fusion" - always brings to mind nuclear fusion. Particularly apt since "fusion" food makes a sane person feel ill, as if they'd eaten radioactive waste.

"Platter" - just say what it is, a fucking big plate.

"Eats" "Foodie" "Farm to Table" also make my skin crawl. Also "local produce" - all produce is local to the place it was made!

I wouldn't advise car bonnet fried. My cousin and I did this on the neighbours car bonnet when we were kids in a very hot summer and it took the paint off.
Anything Jamie Oliver it makes me hysterical.
Definitely plating up, I cannot bear it.

A deep fat fryer?

I cannot show you everything.

Bite to eat...realy grinds my gears

I hate 'helping' as in second helping or lapped it up. Makes me feel 🤢 for some reason

Also lashings really annoys me. And when recipes say, serve with x, if liked. Well duh, no one is going to serve it with that if they don't like it!

Many of these terms really are annoying.

But, pan fried is a legitimate term, and the "pan" part of it isn't redundant. Pan frying distinguishes it from deep frying. Two completely different techniques.

Oh, another one - "hero" as in "we're going to hero the chicken in this dish". Outrageous.