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If you think back to your childhood, you can probably remember some strange or funny cooking tendencies you noticed your parents were guilty of. Redditor Raoena asked, "What is the weirdest kitchen stuff your parents did?" Here are some strange culinary habits people observed while watching their parents in the kitchen. 3.
"My mother made 'garbage soup,' by which she boiled water, added salt, chopped up every leftover from the week, and dumped it in. Hot dogs , lasagna, garden salad, tuna casserole, and anything else were fair game and were added to the soup." — imissaolchatrooms 5.
"My parents would buy ground beef, and instead of just freezing it like a normal person, they'd cook it first. Very well done, with no salt or seasonings, and would let all the fat drip out in a colander over the sink before packing it away. They'd pack it in glass containers with layers of tinfoil between each serving.
All our meals involving ground beef would be dry, flavorless, grainy, overcooked, freezer-burnt, and disappointing. Sometimes, you'd be lucky and find a bit of foil in your meal that didn't get peeled off all the way." — Outofwlrds 7.
"My dad got a new cast iron pan. It was massive and he bought it impulsively at the hardware store for dirt cheap. Anyway, he decided to season it as you do with cast iron.
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How he went about it was to pour in all of every herb and spice in the house, a whole container of salt, and various condiments from the fridge and boiled the concoction all day long so it soaked. The smell was awful. He seemed to be under the impression that cast iron somehow stored all spices and knew which ones to apply to your food automatically when cooking.
" — 13thmurder 9. "When I was a kid, if my dad cooked chicken, he would wash it in the sink and then put it on the (empty) dish rack to drip dry. And he did not clean the dish rack afterward.
I asked him, 'Won't bacteria get into the rack from the chicken?' And he was like, 'oh it's fine.'" — Raoena 11. "My mom would cook steak until it was grey, and then she'd get mad when I would put ketchup on it to be able to eat it.
Also, all of our veggies came out of a freezer box or can." — nyrgrrlfan 13. "My mom never cooked with salt and told me to completely omit salt when cooking.
As it so happens, food tastes a whole lot better when salted." — a_frayn 17. "My mother always put a packet of Lipton’s onion soup mix in everything she makes.
I'm talking about every single dish! Rice, mashed potatoes, taco meat, etc. It was always the only consistent thing about her cooking." — alwaysaplusone 21.
"Chicken (unless we had a babysitter and got nuggets) was cooked *one* way. Roasted to a crisp basted with honey and oregano. I would put salad dressing on it to make it palatable.
Throughout all my childhood, I thought I hated chicken." — JacPhlash What is a strange, hilarious, or unusual cooking tendency you observed from your parents while growing up? Tell us in the comments or in this anonymous form ..
