18 People Whose Culinary Taste Is So Peculiar That It Makes Others Angry

“Haute cuisine is the only human art that cannot be questioned,” said Friedrich Dürrenmatt. We do not intend to debate with this great actor and playwright, but we believe that, sometimes, the passion for gastronomy verges on obsession.

The team of awesome.club does not always understand the reasons for indignation of culinary lovers, but believes in their words and is always ready to sympathize with them. After all, professionals who master the art of cooking usually know better than anyone what can and cannot be classified as a “culinary crime”.

I made a delicious mutton soup, following the recipe to the letter, but my mother, without trying it first, put so much mayonnaise on it that it took all the flavor out of the soup. That’s a shame, because she didn’t know the taste of the dish. © StarinaFox / pikabu

I rarely buy special ingredients, but one day I afforded the luxury of buying a small bottle of lemon-flavored olive oil. It was very tasty, and is only used for finishing dishes and not for cooking. I was looking forward to summer, thinking about salads and the light and delicious pasta dishes I was going to make. Once, I came home to find that my roommate had already used 80% of my bottle to make food, as his vegetable oil had run out. He was a nice guy so he said right away he would buy me new oil. My colleague’s eyes widened when I said that a bottle like that cost me almost 170 reais. © what_the_a / Reddit

Yesterday at the park, I bought a hamburger from a food truck and I witnessed a “gastronomic crime”: it was stuffed with fried potatoes placed under the meat and covered with sauce, which made them mushy. That was awful. © skywolfnika / twitter

I made spinach cream pasta with three cheeses, a very special dish. Afterwards, with pain in my heart, I saw my boyfriend putting four large pieces of the cheapest mortadella on the market on the plate I made. © PrivetNin ​​/ twitter

My roommate mixed all the sauces and spices that my roommates and I had to “save space” in the kitchen. He poured all the bottles of light vinegar into one bottle and the dark vinegar, including balsamic, into another. My “sophisticated” salt ended up mixed with sea salt, which I use to clean the cast iron pan, and refined sugar, with brown sugar. And now all the spices are in a big bag that looks like a craft with layers of colored sand. © my-hot-cousin / Reddit

My dad’s friend usually puts cucumbers in any hot dish, no matter what it is: pork broth with green chili sauce, chicken soup or beef taco. She also doesn’t believe you have to drain the water after cooking pasta. Instead, she lets it sit in hot water until each strand of spaghetti is as thick as a shoelace. © purudaya / Reddit

One weekend, my mother came to visit. On Saturday morning, I walked into the kitchen and saw that it had just ground 1.5 kg of coffee beans. She looked at me and said, “Now you don’t have to worry about that.” For context: we always buy fresh beans and grind them in a fancy grinder before brewing. Of course, much worse things could have happened… © coffee_cup / Reddit

My landlord was fixing the sink and asked if I had a knife. Without waiting for an answer, he took my damascus steel knife from a renowned Japanese brand and used the tip to pick something out of the sink. I almost burst into tears. © k0hler / Reddit

My friend’s daughter likes her steak medium rare, expensive and well done. No cheap sirloin steak, she just wants the best types of steak she can afford. If we go to a restaurant that serves a piece of meat for 250 reais, for example, I’m sure she’ll order it. That seems normal and reasonable… Until you find out that it passes. ketchup over the whole piece of meat. I even think that it violates some conditions of the Geneva Convention. © throtic / Reddit

Anyone who knows even a little about Italian food feels a little sick at the thought of people using cheese. cottage as a substitute for ricotta when making lasagna. © Joseph Panzarella / Quora

Still newly married, my aunt decided to make a roast chicken for her mother-in-law. It’s a dish that seems to be hard to spoil, isn’t it? So, after she had taken a bite of it, her mother-in-law asked, “Did you wash the chicken?” And my aunt replied: “Yes, with soap”. © James Welch / Quora

My mother was visiting my brother. She defrosted some steaks wagyu that he had ordered, carefully trimmed all the fat and roasted what was left of them until well done. When my brother came home from work, she complained that he had bought “a very fatty and poor quality meat”. © o0-o0- / Reddit

I work in a restaurant and I find it funny when customers mispronounce words (“cocrante”, “mortandela”, “bicabornato”, etc.), but staring at me with an arrogant expression. © Podsluschano / VK

I spent 14 hours making chicken stock for ramen, and my husband spilled it all down the sink thinking it was “dirty water”. © Violetcreams / Reddit

I love pizza, but only the one that is assembled correctly. There is no other dish in the world that has been so violently spoiled by people’s “overactive imaginations” than pizza. For some reason, many people think of it as a graveyard for leftover food. Did you find a slice of mortadella that had been in the fridge for three months? It suits! A tomato close to its expiration date? That’s what you need! Ketchup with mayonnaise on top? What could be better? I consider such perverse use of ingredients a “culinary crime”. © Podsluschano / VK

I made a roasted loin cup. It was very appetizing. I cut it into slices and served it with a side dish for my husband. He mashed the meat with his fork and mixed it with the side dish so that my refined dish looked like corned beef. I was a little indignant, saying that I hadn’t roasted the whole piece so that he could turn it into minced meat. I heard the answer: “That way it tastes better”. © annSlay / pikabu

I made a tomato sauce for spaghetti from scratch, and my mom put a canned pasta sauce on top to “give it an authentic taste.” © todaystartsnow / Reddit

I have a friend who once cooked chicken in my presence. he took from Freezer and put it in the pan with a ready-made broth, in which he had already prepared another chicken. Perplexed, I looked at him and heard the following: “I don’t see anything wrong with that, I didn’t want to make another broth or wash the pot afterwards”. © Podsluschano / VK

And you, are you uncomfortable with “culinary illiteracy” or do you think this concept is questionable? Leave your opinion in the comments section.