While questionable cooking choices won’t get you arrested, unless you veer into poisoning or arson, they will get you mercilessly mocked and shamed online. So it’s best to learn the dos and don'ts of the culinary arts.
An internet user wanted to know what others would classify as food crimes, and the answers were illuminating. And for those who get scared to take up home cooking after seeing this long list, we wanted to get some beginner tips from professionals. So we reached out to Bintu from Recipes From A Pantry and Monti Carlo from BudgetBytes to get some tips and tricks. So scroll down, take notes, and upvote the ‘crimes’ you agree with.
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#21
My mother-in-law's burrito recipe. Room temperature flour tortilla, boiled hot dog, canned black olives, and shredded carrots.
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97points
#22
When I was younger my older brother would eat mustard and nutella sandwiches.
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95points
#23
Severely overcooking steak. I have a relative who likes his steak cooked extra well done. I don’t know how he even gets it down. Why bother getting nice steak if you're going to over-cook it to death?!
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95points
#24
I used to share a house with a guy, and every time a bottle or jar of sauce was only about a third full, he would fill it up with water and shake it 'to get his money's worth.' That's not saving money, it's just making your condiments taste awful.
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92points
#25
My neighbor used to pull all the cheese off her pizza and cover it in ketchup
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90points
#26
I just had a coworker tell me he puts sugar in with his spaghetti nothing else
85points
#29
Putting ice cubes in milk. My daughter does this and it drives me nuts. There's nothing worse than watery milk.
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74points
#30
I cannot stand the way my mother eats sandwiches. Take, for example, a roast beef sandwich. She takes it all apart and eats the roast beef and then the bread separately. It's meant to be eaten all together...that's what makes a sandwich taste good!
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71points
#31
My aunt stirs a spoonful of sugar into her glass of red wine. Now that is a new one for me, and it's unforgivable. An ice cube in wine is pretty common, but sugar in your wine? Absolutely not.
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69points
#32
My brother was allergic to cow's milk when we were younger. I have witnessed him pour orange juice into his cereal and eat it.
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68points
#33
Grilling burgers and not putting the cheese on the burger while it's on the grill or toasting the buns.
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56points
#34
Italian: Undressed noodles with a pool of sauce on top.
(I don't fuss that much with carbonara purism. I think non Italian redditors get more worked up about it than Italians TBH. Mostly I don't know why people call something carbonara that's not.)
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52points
#35
Chopped tomatoes in bechamel? That's just Mormon queso.
48points
