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 came here to say that too , I could understand it if they said shallow or deep fried but I'll be buggered if if I will try to fry something without a pan.
I agree about the phrase dirty food , why would you refer to something that you want to sound appealing?

Not quite the same but anyone that says 'a cheeky' whatever, glass of wine , chocolate, cake.
How the heck is cake cheeky?

There is a "Cakery" near me.
I did go once and had a full English Breakfast strangely

Moist

Nibbles
Picky bits
Nom nom

Oh my goodness nooo I’ve never heard this before!!
I can’t unsee it now ..

I get this one! I think it seems jarring because tomato is pronounced more like t'mato, so tom doesn't flow as a shortening. Although I also dislike "choc" for chocolate and can't use the same excuse there!

@70isaLimitNotaTarget - I'm not exactly sure which expression you mean but I know how annoying the food IG/ Facebook reels ( are they the same thing!?) people can be. There's one that a couple of women I've seen do when they taste food- a sort of shoulder wiggle and an 'mmmmm' face. It's extremely annoying!

Thank you. Thank you. ‘Fry off’ gives me the rage!

'Fry it off' - no, just fry it.

'Supper' - especially when said by Nigel Slater.

lol I am agreeing with this post & all of the comments 😂
my peeves might be controversial but I cannot stand in when people say ‘nom nom’. Instead of yum. There’s a cookery book stupidly titled ‘ pinch of nom”
Also really hate it when people “picky bits” for nibbles etc

'Foraged' anything. Sounds like the chef has just been clambering about in the bottom of the hedge bordering the restaurant car park.

That's all encompassing. The word shouldn't even exist in any situation.

Shudder

Bakes instead of cakes

It saves money on food and therefore saves any irritating terminology.

What's not to like? 🤔😂

Oh God, so many of these.

The words portion and batch both make me intensely embarrassed; I can't explain why.

I really hate 'heaping' as in 'add a heaping tablespoon of yoghurt'.

I think it’s opposed to deep fat fried?

Many of mine have already been mentioned but worth repeating;

Mac n cheese - we are not American! It’s macaroni cheese!
Plate up
All the trimmings
Chunks (of anything really)

And small plates/sharing plates are all very well but why do they have to have three of things?? I know it looks better but generally there are either two or four of us eating! Went to Yo Sushi the other day and everything came in twos or fours which was much easier for sharing. Slightly off topic I know…

My dc have been known to ask for a deconstructed cheese sandwich. So bread and cheese then 🙈😆

The Shittery !!! Excellent, I look forward to seeing this sign on an Eatery or Drinkery walk soon .

yorkies and roasties
posh anything
crusty bread especially if it’s a hunk slathered in butter
mac n cheese
plant based
sammich
snappin’ for packed lunch
a ’nice’ meal posters in here often suggest going for a nice meal as if anyone would choose a horrid one
nugs
a tipsy dessert
dubai chocolate

Oh God I've just remembered, a friend of mine calls baked potatoes 'bakies'.
God love him, he's a good friend (and I have been the grateful recipient of the aforementioned many times), but I have to practically stuff my fist in my mouth so I don't scream.

Did you go for some food?
What shall we do for food?

You mean dinner/lunch.

Picky tea makes we cringe for no particular reason
dirty rice/fries also make me feel sick

Drizzled (sounds like snot).

And piles /heap. Both disgusting. A favourite of Mr O.

Me too! Even seeing it written makes my teeth curl 😣