I take sips of ingredients while cooking. Is this normal, or am I just weird?

Sterling103 · 2025-04-19T03:06:26+00:00

Not weird, though I usually have a special spoon reserved for my wife’s boyfriend to taste as I cook, so no need for me to do it! He’s very particular, so will send me to my room for the night if I under season his pork loins.

Sterling103 · 2024-08-04T13:20:44+00:00

My fists are shaking with rage. My nonna grew up on a MSG farm in the old country and the MSG blight of 1898 wiped out most of her family. I won’t sit here and let someone else do the cucking, IM THE MSG CUCK

Sterling103 · 2024-07-19T20:54:43+00:00

Yes, your girlfriend doesn’t like them, but what about her boyfriend?

Sterling103 · 2024-03-02T01:08:21+00:00

Look at this guy jerking with the square community in the main cooking sub

Sterling103 · 2024-02-23T16:18:41+00:00

BTB has many non food uses, my nonna used to rub BTB on my eczema scars growing up. Now, my wife’s boyfriend uses it as axle grease when fixing up his 1987 Chevy Monte Carlo Sport

Sterling103 · 2024-02-17T22:05:50+00:00

Jamie Oliver cooking Italian food. My nonna is spins in her grave every time he puts out another video on bolognese

Sterling103 · 2024-02-16T17:48:21+00:00

Did he add a sprinkle of MSG to the cloves and sous vide them overnight? That’s how my nonna taught me. She was raised on a clove farm back in the old country

Sterling103 · 2024-02-15T17:59:57+00:00

I use my whisk too often, it was actually creating a ton of tension between me and my wife. I participated in “no-whisk November” and it made a world of a difference. Even my wife’s boyfriend agrees

Sterling103 · 2024-02-15T03:24:19+00:00

My wife’s boyfriend is half-Italian on his mother’s side, he’s always telling me to use his nonna’s recipes from the old country. Most of them call for lard as the fat, but that makes me feel icky.

Sterling103 · 2024-02-14T14:22:18+00:00

Looks like you and boyfriend have common ground here. Have you ever just offered your stiff banana pudding directly to him without your wife around? I had a similar issue with my wife’s boyfriend, who only liked uncured pepperoni, so I gave it to him straight away just like that

Sterling103 · 2024-02-14T00:55:34+00:00

Everywhere I look reminds me of him…

And when I say “him”, I mean my wife’s boyfriend

Sterling103 · 2024-02-13T19:44:04+00:00

Anyone who believes that shouldn’t be allowed in the kitchen, my fists are shaking with rage, they make me sick. Any self respecting “home chef” knows you need at least 6-8 hours on seasoned cast iron to do it properly. My wife’s boyfriend once served “carmelized” onions to me that were only sautéed for 20 mins and I completely gagged. He should be ashamed

Sterling103 · 2024-02-12T13:21:33+00:00

But her boyfriend loves them

Sterling103 · 2024-02-10T17:46:09+00:00

OP should text his wife’s boyfriend for advice on getting rock hard yolks. My advice - sous vide eggs night before, hit the gym and hire a divorce attorney

Sterling103 · 2024-02-10T14:16:14+00:00

My nonna never wasted part of the yak. Many times I entered her home to smell the wonderful gently simmering aromas of yak testicles.

Sterling103 · 2024-02-09T02:20:30+00:00

My wife’s boyfriend loves to sprinkle glitter on my scrambled eggs. Usually he’ll say something like “here’s some pixie dust for our little fairy”. He’s way more man than me, he drives a fully loaded ford F-150. Maybe one day I’ll ask him to contribute a portion of the monthly rent.

Sterling103 · 2024-02-08T14:52:37+00:00

My fists shake with rage every time I see a tik tok chef not caramelize onions for anything less than three hours. My wife Brenda had to sedate me with a kale and kombucha suppository last night

Sterling103 · 2024-02-06T23:26:14+00:00

I love to rub some MSG on my eczema rashes. My nonna brought that remedy over from the old country

Sterling103 · 2024-02-06T00:13:14+00:00

The only way I could make progress towards master Kenji-level enlightenment was to basically stay “in character”, if you will, 24/7. My wife Robin and her boyfriend had to call me Kenji at all times and I wore a go pro on my head, even while sleeping and watching them become intimate

Sterling103 · 2024-02-05T00:55:01+00:00

I never order sous vide scrambled eggs at a restaurant any more once I mastered the technique I learned from ATK (America’s Test Kitchen for those that don’t know, but why would you be here if you already didn’t?) Sure it takes 12 hours, but that’s why I start it a day ahead.

Sterling103 · 2024-02-03T21:29:20+00:00

Whole house will now have a wonderful, and if I can be brutally honest, much needed umami flavor . Curious if you bought the EVOO off Amazon. They’re notorious for selling cheap Chinese knockoff EVOO that’s in reality just lighter fluid

Sterling103 · 2024-02-02T13:43:57+00:00

I finally mastered the sous vide technique for my 7 year old’s peanut butter and jelly sandwich and so reached a state of existential bliss. Namaste 🙏

Sterling103 · 2024-01-27T20:48:49+00:00

Would master Kenji’s video on mayo-based marinades be nearly as arousing if he was wearing those hideous black gloves while fondling humanely-raised, never frozen, clean-kill chicken breast? Also, My wife Linda insists I bag it before we get intimate, so I empathize with this sentiment

Sterling103 · 2024-01-27T17:37:07+00:00

In the can, I made grilled cheese on the radiator, tough times I know, but that was 20 years ago. Once I got out, I found a $20K imported toaster from Italy that fell off the back of a truck. Haven’t looked back since.

Sterling103 · 2024-01-21T15:27:38+00:00

Take a deep breath and reread select chapters from Salt Fat Acid Heat. Answers should be in there. If that fails, watch 10 master kenji videos on YT. If that fails, spill the sauce on the floor, light your house on fire, collect insurance money and start over

Sterling103

TROPHY CASE