When you cook-Do you want to eat it?

"Kswck" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:487e73ab$0$4999$607ed4bc@cv.net:

> Regarding making something that is NOT the usual dish on any
> given night at home.....
>

> I find when I make something elaborate, I don't want it once
> it's finished. I guess it has to do with tasting here,
> seasoning there, tasting again, etc. By the time it is
> finished, I want more of the accolades of people eating the
> dish than actually eating it myself.
>
> You?

Waste not, want not. ;) Plus I like leftovers.

On Wed 16 Jul 2008 03:17:59p, Kswck told us...

> Regarding making something that is NOT the usual dish on any given night
> at home.....
>
>
>
> I find when I make something elaborate, I don't want it once it's
> finished. I guess it has to do with tasting here, seasoning there,
> tasting again, etc. By the time it is finished, I want more of the
> accolades of people eating the dish than actually eating it myself.
>
> You?
>
>
>

I never cook anything that I don't want to eat. I wouldn't waste my time.

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Wayne Boatwright
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42! Is that all you've got to show for
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Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Wed 16 Jul 2008 03:17:59p, Kswck told us...
>
> > Regarding making something that is NOT the usual dish on any given night
> > at home.....
> >
> >
> >
> > I find when I make something elaborate, I don't want it once it's
> > finished. I guess it has to do with tasting here, seasoning there,
> > tasting again, etc. By the time it is finished, I want more of the
> > accolades of people eating the dish than actually eating it myself.
> >
> > You?
> >
> >
> >
>
> I never cook anything that I don't want to eat. I wouldn't waste my time.


I don't think that's what the OP means...

He means something along the lines of that if you've spent a lot of time and
trouble cooking something are you so sick and tired of it when you are done
that you are not hungry...

I know when I've spent all day cooking that by the time the food is ready to
be served I'm not even hungry anymore...in fact I don't even want to think
about food for a whiles, let alone partake of it...I'm like, "I can't
imagine doing this for a living"...

I know several chefs that work at higher - end places, not only are their
fridges and pantries pretty bare, but at home they subsist on stuff like
Kraft mac 'n cheese, baloney sammiches on cheap white bread with cheese
"product" slices, Chipotle, Big Macs, etc. They do food for a living and so
in their home lives like to keep it simple. They are also very
thin...they'll often say, "I'm just not hungry a lot of the time, I'm around
food so much...it reminds me of work"...

When they entertain, they'll put on the dog, they have access to the best
ingredients (like my chef friend who recently had us over on a Sunday
afternoon and treated us to a coupla hundred bux worth of artisanal cheeses,
nice wines, etc.), but in their daily lives they can get pretty sick of
food. Cooking is very hard work...

Kinda like a coupla IT people I know who so hate computers that they don't
have computers in their homes. They get more than enough of computer stuff
in their work...

I've known bartenders who are complete tee - totalers, too. They won't
touch alcohol as they are around it at work and they see what it can do to
people...one guy said to me, "I don't want to drink because then I'd be an
asshole like most of my customers are".

;-)


--
Best
Greg

On Wed 16 Jul 2008 07:11:33p, Gregory Morrow told us...

>
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> On Wed 16 Jul 2008 03:17:59p, Kswck told us...
>>
>> > Regarding making something that is NOT the usual dish on any given
>> > night at home.....
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I find when I make something elaborate, I don't want it once it's
>> > finished. I guess it has to do with tasting here, seasoning there,
>> > tasting again, etc. By the time it is finished, I want more of the
>> > accolades of people eating the dish than actually eating it myself.
>> >
>> > You?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I never cook anything that I don't want to eat. I wouldn't waste my
>> time.
>
>
> I don't think that's what the OP means...
>
> He means something along the lines of that if you've spent a lot of time
> and trouble cooking something are you so sick and tired of it when you
> are done that you are not hungry...

Doesn't happen to me, Greg.

> I know when I've spent all day cooking that by the time the food is
> ready to be served I'm not even hungry anymore...in fact I don't even
> want to think about food for a whiles, let alone partake of it...I'm
> like, "I can't imagine doing this for a living"...

Well, I can't imagine doing it for a living, either.

> I know several chefs that work at higher - end places, not only are
> their fridges and pantries pretty bare, but at home they subsist on
> stuff like Kraft mac 'n cheese, baloney sammiches on cheap white bread
> with cheese "product" slices, Chipotle, Big Macs, etc. They do food for
> a living and so in their home lives like to keep it simple. They are
> also very thin...they'll often say, "I'm just not hungry a lot of the
> time, I'm around food so much...it reminds me of work"...
>
> When they entertain, they'll put on the dog, they have access to the
> best ingredients (like my chef friend who recently had us over on a
> Sunday afternoon and treated us to a coupla hundred bux worth of
> artisanal cheeses, nice wines, etc.), but in their daily lives they can
> get pretty sick of food. Cooking is very hard work...
>
> Kinda like a coupla IT people I know who so hate computers that they
> don't have computers in their homes. They get more than enough of
> computer stuff in their work...
>
> I've known bartenders who are complete tee - totalers, too. They won't
> touch alcohol as they are around it at work and they see what it can do
> to people...one guy said to me, "I don't want to drink because then I'd
> be an asshole like most of my customers are".
>
> ;-)
>
>



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Wayne Boatwright
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Wednesday, 07(VII)/16(XVI)/08(MMVIII)
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As a matter of fact, no, I don't have
a life.
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:11:33 -0500, "Gregory Morrow"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I know several chefs that work at higher - end places, not only are their
>fridges and pantries pretty bare, but at home they subsist on stuff like
>Kraft mac 'n cheese, baloney sammiches on cheap white bread with cheese
>"product" slices, Chipotle, Big Macs, etc. They do food for a living and so
>in their home lives like to keep it simple. They are also very
>thin...they'll often say, "I'm just not hungry a lot of the time, I'm around
>food so much...it reminds me of work"...

the carpenter's wife, the plumber's wife, the shoemaker's children....
>
>When they entertain, they'll put on the dog, they have access to the best
>ingredients (like my chef friend who recently had us over on a Sunday
>afternoon and treated us to a coupla hundred bux worth of artisanal cheeses,
>nice wines, etc.), but in their daily lives they can get pretty sick of
>food. Cooking is very hard work...
>
>Kinda like a coupla IT people I know who so hate computers that they don't
>have computers in their homes. They get more than enough of computer stuff
>in their work...

My kids are that way. Primarily, it's work, not fun for them. They
simply don't like being on the computer at home for anything other
than business, email or grabbing a recipe off the 'net.


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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West