Why do Brits boil everything ?

[Lotc]

I’m European but not British. I have to say the way you guys cook (vegetables in particular) ie boiling everything) really isn’t for me. It just makes everything so bland even if you add butter and salt after. Carrots especially. Why not roast or lightly sautee in a pan with some olive oil? My husband boils everything. I’ve never seen anything like it. Why boil carrots? Same as ILs. The first time I met ILs we had poached chicken. It’s so weird to me. Is it a health thing?

DH loathes roasted vegetables but he was out last night. I had a bag of Mediterranean vegetables charred in the freezer, so tossed them in a little oil and garlic in a plastic bag. Let them marinate for an hour, then roasted in the air fryer. They were delicious.

I steam most green veg but have also roasted/sautéed things

I don't boil!

We don't. HTH.

Which is odd as most of my European friends and family eat a lot of boiled potatoes, in fact far more than I do in the UK. (Generalising on purpose here! But in reality I'm talking about northern Europe-family and friends in France, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Sweden, and Denmark).

Last night I boiled potatoes and carrots, steamed cauliflower, microwaved frozen peas and air fried a salmon fillet. Made packet Hollandaise sauce. I'm 63. I don't want everything roasted or fried and now I'm widowed I can't see me using the oven very much.

Boiled new potatoes with generous amounts of butter, salt and pepper and mint are lovely though!

What does that mean, though? Are the Maltese fat??

New potatoes are delicious brushed in garlic butter, wrapped in foil and roasted on the barbecue.

Ha! Why so rude? This thread is really bringing out the worst in people. Of course they taste better and retain more vitamins like that. Boiled soft they're just soggy and wet.
Edit typo

In the case of roast potatoes it is so the inside is fluffy while the outside is cris. Otherwise you get rubbery outside and possibly underdone inside.

Yes, as I understand it, the heaviest in Europe.

Oh! So it’s laziness behind all this. I doubt your culinary credentials tbh because boiled new potatoes are delicious. Known in France as pommes de terre nouvelle.

Not all Europeans drown everything in oil and garlic.

It's one of the most obese countries in Europe.

My grandparents ate a lot of plain boiled veg and potatoes, but they lived through the war with food and more importantly fuel and fat rationing. I think it is hard to underestimate the impact year and years of food and fuel shortages had on the way older generations of British people ate.

Wow yes. Me too. I can't remember anything so ridiculous as this thread, where people are defending their right to eat their vegetables in whatever way they choose 😂

And you say you’re European?

"Brits" dont - your family does and most people will some of the time because it's quick, convenient and you can more easily get them as hard or soft as you like.

Has the OP flown away to her mystery homeland?

Numbers are international, though. And those for males are lower than in those countries, women are level.

no shock she won’t say where she’s from

They never do. It's always a mysterious, superior, general European country.

I too love boiled veg - they taste so clean and nourishing and wholesome.
I find roast veg a bit cloying

Sometimes when you press them on it they'll say that it could be 'outing'.

As if a) you can't name change and b) unless maybe the magical mystery land is a tiny place like San Marino or Liechtenstein it's not as if someone is going to read this thread and say 'Hey! That must be Anna!'

I would imagine your dh just can’t cook @Lotc .
some vegetables really shine boiled or steamed, and then seasoned. Some roasted or fried. Some stewed.

Yes we are having dinner tonight and I’m going to boil the halloumi , the chicken skewers and the salads 🙄