What is the point?!

JodyBPM

I'm not a big user of salt or condiments (but I am of freshly ground black pepper), but I know which meals I like what with, and I wouldn't have to taste it first to find out. E.g, I like salt on fresh sliced tomatoes, brown sauce on scrambled egg, ketchup on mac & cheese, and black pepper on most things.

I don't really see why you feel he would need to taste first to find out that a condiment would taste nice with a certain meal - he probably already knows which condiments he likes with which meals!

Adding salt, pepper or sauce to a meal doesn't suggest that he doesn't like/value your cooking unless he is literally smothering it in order to mask the taste!

Artytarty

I was brought up to believe it is bad manners to season your food before tasting it.

southernscouser

Maybe you're just a really bad cook and he doesn't wanna tell you it's inedible so does the only thing he can to not hurt your feelings and cover it in sauce and salt.

victory

southernscouser wrote: »

Maybe you're just a really bad cook and he doesn't wanna tell you it's inedible so does the only thing he can to not hurt your feelings and cover it in sauce and salt.

There's always one:rotfl::rotfl:

System

My lover often has a meal prepared for me when i get in from work at daft o clock and i have to say that i am most appreciative and she knows it..

I love the sound of that.... the lover bit (and the meal).:)

RichardD1970

southernscouser wrote: »

Maybe you're just a really bad cook and he doesn't wanna tell you it's inedible so does the only thing he can to not hurt your feelings and cover it in sauce and salt.

victory wrote: »

There's always one:rotfl::rotfl:

More than one, I was thinking the same, but was too polite actually post it :rotfl:

fashionlover10

His health is a concern but that's a discussion I've given up on really.

We don't sit to the table because we'd have to drag it out every meal but maybe that's a thing to try.

Some meals I cook him he's never had before so he can't know if he likes a certain condiment on it beforehand.

His mum also smothers food in salt and roast dinners are drowned in gravy without you being asked if you want any so I guess it is an inbuilt automatic thing.

Thanks for everyones comments. I think I'll try asking him to taste things as I'm cooking them from now on.

luxor4t

Person_one wrote: »

I'm pretty sure its considered rude to the cook to drown your food in salt or ketchup before even tasting it........

Not just me then

My pet hate is somebody who does that then lights up a cigarette immediately they swallow the last morsel - as if they need something to take the taste away.

DH was warned off salt when he developed high blood pressure, then was forbidden salt after his heart bypass surgery - Lo-salt on the oven chips and that's it is our house. Again, he was force fed it as a boy as it was flung into everything by the handful.

C_Mababejive

victory wrote: »

Your lover? That sound so passionate, so romantic:D

Well you know,it only takes a little bit of thought. Your woman has cooked a nice meal. She wants to nurture you and make you feel better after a hard day at work. She wants to see that you enjoy and appreciate it. Its incredibly thoughtless,bad mannered and disrespectful to act in such dismissive ways.;)

victory

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Well you know,it only takes a little bit of thought. Your woman has cooked a nice meal. She wants to nurture you and make you feel better after a hard day at work. She wants to see that you enjoy and appreciate it. Its incredibly thoughtless,bad mannered and disrespectful to act in such dismissive ways.;)

yes indeed:D