They always don't like something.
My room mate for example doesnt like onions and claims they give him hives. I put onions in everything so he eats nothing I make.

ohh ewww whats this im not used to thisss

i suck at cooking

I love cooking for other people.

Vegans.

"Oh, I'm not picky.... But you have to make this exactly how I am used to it, or I will not eat a bite."

I like to cook for others. But I am the best at it.

>>1947321
Kind of like how prudes always start a sentence bashing other people's personal lives with "I'm no prude, but..."

vegans: oh. this doesnt have egg in it does it? because it taste like has egg in it. if it does im gonna be sick please tell me you didnt put eggs in this

>>1947316
my roomie says the same, that he doesn't like onion, i use it in everything but i dice it very thinly... and then he complains when he cooks the same that it doesn't taste the same...

they expect me to cook for them, entertain them, AND do the dishes.

>>1947348
I will cook for you, I will provide my home for your use for the evening...

BUT YOU HAD BETTER DO THE DAMN DISHES.

>>1947348
Oh, fuck that shit. Unless it's a little more formal dinner, someone else better do the fucking dishes.

>>1947352
Fucking right. I love to cook for other people but they damn well better expect to do the dishes after everything is said and done.

Aw you guys are babies. Cooking for other people is so much more rewarding than just for yourself, even if they can be ungrateful.

>>1947356
Am I wrong to believe this is common courtesy?

>>1947348
That is the best part about my roommate. He does not mind doing dishes as long as I cook food. And I enjoy cooking dinner, so I don't have to do dishes.

>>1947352
>>1947352
>>1947352
>>1947352
>>1947352

This, a thousand times.
Small party at my house, with dinner, always involve drunk dish washing (and hopefully some dishes from the previous days!).

When they say, "my mom/grandfather/second cousin/whoever-the-fuck makes this better," or when they offer unwanted criticism.

>>1947365
I once made dinner for a mother.

She hovered over me and told me I was doing everything wrong, and SHE made it different.

I handed her the spoon, told her to go nuts, and then went to Taco Bell.

>>1947361
Where I come from, we have dishwashers.

>>1947368
Where I come from, you still have to rinse and scrape the plates.

>>1947368
you honestly can't think you can put dishes that haven't been cleaned off into the dishwasher directly.

>>1947366
Lol. I know what you mean...a good friend of mine has a mother who is just like that. Shit sucks.

You people are strange. If you invite someone over it is your responsibility to both cook and clean up after them. Its called being a host.
Enjoy never having friends over because everyone is scared you will make them clean.

I am stingy, bitter, paranoid, and distrusting of other people.

>>1947377
I don't make them clean. I make them run their dish under the damn tap at the very least.

>>1947372
Newsflash: Your dishwasher is cheap shit.

>>1947377

If they return the favor, great. Most people I are lazy fucks who can't cook a goddamned thing for themselves. If I give them a skillfully prepared meal for free, they better do the fucking dishes.

The insincerity. I prefer a healthy critique to "oh yeah that was WONDERFUL" when I know it wasn't.

Also, washing up. I don't mind washing up; I immediately get up and wash up after eating any meal I eat. But when it comes to feeding a large number of people, it completely ruins everything and puts me off totally.

don't cook for others cos no matter how good i cook i'm always afraid someone's gonna spit it all over the table and...

food allergies that people don't feel like mentioning until I'm serving it.

>>1947422
This. I'd like to not kill you.

>>1947422
"Oh, I'm sorry. I wish you would have mentioned something sooner. There's a McDonalds right down the street."

Then carry on serving and enjoying your dinner party like nothing happened.

>>1947308
"Oh cooking? Let's just get pizza! Everyone likes pizza!"

JESUS CHRIST NO!!!!

When I first started cooking in high school, I could never really cook at home. My dad is like a picky 2 year old. He won't eat fish, he refuses to touch mushrooms, and a million other stupid rules. My mom is a super-taster who is ultra sensitive to any capsaicin and salt. I had to make the most bland, awful dishes with no creative ingredients. Then they would be super pissed when I just started cooking for myself, so it was lose lose.

Moving out was the best thing I ever did. My 2 room mates are foodies of sorts, and completely support anything I want to cook. I don't even have to pay for any of the food if I am willing to cook it.

>>1947434

How did you survive? I'd go batshit. They wouldn't even let you make two separate dishes?

Dinner guests expect you to open your most expensive bottles of wine and just endlessly sate their lushness without any retribution. They drink and drink and drink but when you go to their house it's always BYOB.

>>1947438
This. Besides doing the dishes, whenver I go to someone's house, I bring drinks. They're making me supper, I'll bring the hooch. (Also, if there's a drink I want and they don't have it, I bring stuff for that too. And enough for everyone else.)

When they come to see me it's "But I only like this alcohol!...Can we go get some?"

>>1947438
You must be associating with dicks... find new dinner guests.

People who expect you to have everything in your fridge and pantry that they have in theirs.

>>1947438
Get over it or get new friends. Quit dragging your pussy through the sand.

If I invited people over and I have something to offer, they'll get it. If the exchange isn't mutual when I visit them then the visiting stops. I don't go around wimpering about it.

>>1947442
>>1947447
Unfortunately the few people who do this are intricately linked with some of my much better friends. I'd rather put up with a good friend's shitty sister at dinner parties than let her get between us.

I stopped going to dinners at the problem guests places a long time ago, just a reason why I don't cook as much anymore for other people.

People who invite you to dinner and then expect you to cook the dinner.

I don't mind chopping some veg or stirring a pot, but my God. If you wanted me to cook for you, you should have just asked instead of being sneaky. Now I'm leaving.

I think it was new year's 2008. I was cooking dinner for a party of about 14 people, in the invitation there was also the three course menu.

Everyone was psyched about getting to eat a three course meal, no one had mentioned any allergies when responding to the invite or anything.

Well as it turns out, we had about 1-2 people not eating either the entree, main course or dessert because of allergies or some stupid fucking "I don't like this ingredient."

Me and my friend had spent much time planning this, the whole day before shopping and I had been prepping and cooking in the kitchen since early afternoon.

Fucking stupid ingrates, pissed me off so bad.
I sucked it up and offered to cook alternatives to the entree and dessert, however having two people poking in the main course not eating made me rage so hard.

"what time do you want to eat?"
"Eightish? I'll come over at six."
>BAW BAW BAW I'M SO BORED, YOU'RE BUSY COOKING EVEN THOUGH I KNEW WE WOULDN'T BE EATING UNTIL 2 HOURS AFTER I ARRIVED

>>1947464
I'm sorry, they should really have told you, or brought their own food.

>>1947473
you suck. "Cooking dinner" isn't actually about the eating. Learn to be social.

>>1947473
If they were coming over to help, that'd be fine. But why whine that you're busy cooking when THEY KNEW THAT???

Food doesn't magically appear fully cooked on the plates!

>>1947485
It is when your dining companion is whining because you can't give them your undivided attention and won't help cook.

I rarely cook for others because I stay at my mom's during the summer and she usually cooks. Although she eats a mostly vegetarian diet... when she does cook meat, she drains all of the blood out of it which makes it taste fucking disgusting anyway, so I'm starting to cook for myself more. Usually just go grab some McDoubles because I'm poor, though.

>>1947377

If they return the favor, great. Most people I are lazy fucks who can't cook a goddamned thing for themselves. If I give them a skillfully prepared meal for free, they better do the fucking dishes.

>>1947485
When was I supposed to finish, heat, and serve the food? Usually people either help, we socialize over the bar, or they don't come hours before they know dinner will be ready.

>>1947377
i agree. if you're gonna invite peopple over, you are the host. you give them whatever they want. you clean up after they leave. if they don't return the favor, don't invite them again. or be a pussy and invite them again and again because you have no real friends.

I don't mind cooking for the family but I hate it when I come home to visit and cook a nice meal only to see that my dad is out golfing, my brother is downstairs eating Chef Boyardee with his girlfriend and my sister still sleeping because she's hung over from the night before. Basically it becomes just me and my mom sitting in front of a family sized dinner by ourselves. What pisses me off is when I still lived there my dad would throw a shitstorm if I didn't eat with everyone else.

>>1947464
I have no idea why this would upset you.

It should upset the people who don't have anything to eat - and who cares about them if they failed to say anything beforehand?

Fuck em.

Having too many leftovers because people swarm on a few particular items.

>>1947521
Even better is when they ASK for something and decide they don't want it.

No, I made it, now you eat it and like it.

>>1947521
So everyone should adjust their schedules to a visit from your royal highness, right? Get over yourself. And the reason you were given flak about being at the dinner table when dinner was served was due to instilling family values that you could take to your own family. Now that your sorry ass has moved out, it doesn't fucking matter as much.

Get over yourself.

>>1947529
that;s your own fault for making one thing taste too good. you have to portion the best things and make them eat some of the shit first

"Hey, I'm hungry."
"Me too."
"I'll cook, what do you want?"
"I dunno...."

Two hours later.

"I know what I want!"
Well, too bad. I already made a damn sandwich.

>>1947540
Good job. That's the way it things ought to be. Don't overly cater to anyone and don't expect people to wait on you hand and foot.

"i hate anchovies"
"have you ever tried them"
"...no"

>>1947545
Exactly!

I have this rule that a lot of people hate. I'll make what you want, but I will make it how *I* like it. And you can pick off/out whatever you don't want, but you need to try *a* bite.

>>1947534

>Family values only matter if you're all living together year round

Sure is derp in here.

>>1947540
I hate this so much, as well as people who are so fat they are still hungry 30 minutes after you feed them pounds of food.

>>1947560
Thinking everyone MUST cancel their plans and be at the dinner table whenever you grace them with your presence = family values.

You sure are a stupid, stuck up cunt.

>>1947575
It's called having a schedule? what the hell?

>>1947573
maybe you should feed them decent portion sizes instead of being a cheap ass

It sounds like more of you people cook for 14 year olds.

>>1947575
I was told we all had to sit at the table and be a family and share our meal.
Strangely, my parents ate in the living, or rather drank their dinners from beer and wine bottles while my brother and I had our cold Kraft dinner alone.

>>1947576
The brother's schedule is to spend time with his girlfriend. The dad's schedule is to play golf. Your schedule is SOOOO much more important than theirs and they should conform to it.

Jesus christ, you are a thick headed bitch.

>>1947591
Oh my god, life must be so fucking hard on you, boo fucking hoo.

Grow the fuck up already, the world doesn't revolve around you for christ sake.

>>1947605
I never said it was...

Do you need a hug?

>>1947591
And?

>>1947577
- 12 tamales
- 6 enchiladas
- 4 burritos
- 3 bowls chili con carne
- 2 baskets of chips

- 1 sundae
- 1/2 bag crisp wafers

that's being cheap?

>>1947308
"I want this (super complicated thing you don't even liked) for dinner."
"I'm not cooking that."
"Why?"
"I don't like it!"

I'll make my guests whatever they want. But when cooking for family, we're going to eat something I like, or you can make your own dinner.

>>1947627
For more than 2 or 3 people, yes.

>>1947632
that's just what he ate.

My friends have super weird conception of heathy/unhealthy food. Ketchup is out of hte question but Mayo is ok. salt is evil but drinking soda during the meal is normal. skip the salad becuase "dressing is too unhealthy" but take double dessert.
All the time.

>>1947633
Then he should know better than to open his mouth and beg for more. He's a rude prick and should not be invited back. Or, if he is invited back, it's not for a meal.

Learn these words, "Eat before you get here because we won't be serving any food."

Makes me fucking anxious, especially when they're just about to eat some of whatever I made.

Every time my friend comes over there is something new she won't eat because "It turns into sugar"

Makes me wonder when she is going to find out that everything you eat turns into sugar.

>>1947662
Hahahahaha. That's hilarious.

She's gonna starve to death.

I don't get insulted if someone doesn't like what I prepared. It's a bonus. I suddenly have lunch for tomorrow.

>>1947648
Wow

Judgement time! In a forum full of people who cook, which is a service profession mind you, I see a similarity of a codependent type of expecting something for your efforts, or at least consideration for your creative clever backbreaking gift of yourself. When you expect gracious etiquette and then don't get it, it's feels personal, when it shouldn't be when you speak about family. You may choose your friends, not your family.

You have to keep in mind that for some folks, "food" is only a necessary daily chore and people are wracked with memories of dysfunctional childhoods where they were forced into servitude of dishes or cheap ingredient menus where they were surrounded by captive audience criticisms or something unpleasant called family time. These kinds of families may not have indulged in social situations involving RSVPs, restaurants that served fine wine, nor developed exquisite palates through jetset travel to sample luscious oddities cooked around the world. Most did not. Some did, but even those kinds of people needed to get over their immature angst to just simply enjoy social situations, good food, and to appreciate it for what it is, a brief moment in time, a gift to enjoy.

Consider that there are few people who keep a scrapbook of wine bottle labels to remember occasions, collect matchbook covers from the finest restaurant memories they had, etc. There are people who photograph and chat about every lovely thing they tried or created. To brag, yes, but also to document their passion...and for some people, food is just not the same thing to everyone. Don't expect people to be something they are not. It's not personal, but you may influence them in a small way today, and they may eventually live life to the fullest without regret.

ITT: Assholes that expect others to wash their plates for them.

>>1947521
Why didn't you ask your family if they wanted dinner BEFORE you started cooking it? You surely knew you dad was out and bro had his gf... so why not ask...

>>1947751

When they join in and "help" cook. Then it ends up ruined, and it's all my fault. "Here, anon, make soup out of these vegetables. Look, I already boiled the piss out of them for you!" Or "Let's add broth to the stirfry until it turns into soup!" "That doesn't look like enough marinade. Here, let me add water to it to bulk it out."

"BAWWW it's too spicy!" (Nothing I make would actually qualify as "spicy.")

I can't be a sloppy cook and lick the spoon I'm using to stir.

>>1947308
They complain that a motherfucking bechamel or souffle, with gouda/fromunda cheese etc. is too bland one day, and too strong the next... Make up your mind!
>then my "guest" might hugitover and the actions displayed in this picture may ensue.

>>1947779
>"Here, anon, make soup out of these vegetables. Look, I already boiled the piss out of them for you!" Or "Let's add broth to the stirfry until it turns into soup!" "That doesn't look like enough marinade. Here, let me add water to it to bulk it out."

I normally kill people.

I hate cooking for vegans and raw food people. Too many rules to follow. I can only deal with so many political statements in my food.

>>1947754
They're supposed to drop what they're doing and pay attention to meeeeee!!!!

>>1947793
I tell them they can cook for me.

>>1947751
Oh, fuck off.

>>1947798
Heh, you know what I picture mentally when I read your sentence? I picture this. (Bonus points if we have any Ace Attorneys in the audience.)

"I don't like black olives"
"I don't eat mushrooms"

You're a grownup now, if you can't bring yourself to try new things then fuck off and go eat a grilled cheese sandwich at home you baby.

>>1947942

>herpaderp all adults must like all foods

>>1947945
>i don't really like mushrooms, black olives, asparagus, eggs, avocados, artichokes, wheat bread, or anything besides kraft singles and ramen

just one certain couple me and my man invite over occasionally. theyre the only people i hate cooking for. my reason:
everytime they are here, i burn all the food. and shes extremely plain. there cant be a sauce or extensive marinade to it. because she doesnt like it. damn its annoying

>>1947945
I don't understand how people can make it into their twenties and still be closed minded about food. People who order a fucking hamburger everytime they go to a restaurant are stupid. Try something new, add some variety to your life. I will beat my children if they decide they only want to eat chicken fingers for the rest of their lives.

People who won't try new things. People who only eat their own country's cuisine because they're fucking PATHETIC.

I made dinner for 2 couples I know a few weeks ago. I bought some nice lamb at a butcher shop that cost a fair amount of money. I made a rice pilaf (thank you /ck/ for the recipe btw). Fearing their wouldn't be enough food I prepared a curry (which everyone remarked was good, and made a few chicken kebabs to go along with the lamb ones.

Buddy has the gall to say "Yeah it was good but there should have been more meat" Even though there was plenty of rice and curry left. I just felt like hitting him, it's a free meal and there is still food on the table, don't bitch about being hungry.

Less food for me.

Honestly, what kind of idiots are most of you guys cooking for? My friends would eat pretty much anything I served, and be damn grateful for it. Same thing goes for my family.

>>1948010
Oh for fucks sake. I was raised to NEVER say anything like that to my host.

I would have said; "Well, next time we'll eat at YOUR place, and YOU can cook all the meat you want."

>>1948038
I think many of these stories are made up. I can't imagine someone being so pathetic that would continue to tolerate such rudeness, stupidity and ingratitude.

>>1948062
No shit. Feel better now? We don't have friends so we suffer each other these little fantasies. Lurk moar.

I hate it because most people have such a narrow pallette. They eat the same boring five to ten things their whole life and when you cook some thing different they freak out or they say stupid things like this pork isnt cooked when it's slightly pink.

I made

>>1948062
Because whenever someone is rude, you should bash their face in.
Forgiveness is overrated, kids.

>>1948077
>Doesn't realize there is a point between remaining pathetically silent and physically assaulting someone.

>>1948072
Doormat detected

>>1948090
>Asshat

sdfghjk

>>1947534
What a fucking dumb thing to rage about. Lmao. Yeah, fuck them for wanting to cook a nice meal for their family and them not giving a shit, Yeah man!!!!

>>1948100
Too bad you don't have the spine to speak up in real life. Then you wouldn't have to make baww posts about how people walk all over you.

>>1948109
>Implying that no one ever says anything to anyone, and we're all whimpering cowards.
Internet toughguy.

>>1948102
what?

>>1948112
Yes, I am an internet tough guy. As a matter of fact, I am a tough guy in every facet of my life. Of course, to most people, I'm just normal. But to weak willed shits like you, I'm totally bad ass.

The 4chan cooking board. Maybe a fifth of the people who post are actually into food and cooking and the rest just trolling

>>1948122
Go drink another bottle of Mountain Dew.
How's that raid going?

>>1948125

Cooking up a nice pot of rage.

>>1948126
>>1948122
lulz

>>1948126
>>1948122
lulz I would have went with, isn't wintergrasp about to pop?

>>1948126
Looks like I struck a nerve. Speak up the next time someone punks you in your own home and you wouldn't be so offended by my comments.

samefagging
what a break through concept

>>1948129
>>1948133
samefag

>>1948139
>>1948143
>>1948145

Samefagging, what a game changing concept

All of these reasons are why it's more fun to have a potluck if there's more than one other person.

>Make home made pizza from scratch for family and friends.
>Use fresh ingredients and good deli peperoni
>give a slice to my friend and he dumps ranch on it.
>Feels bad man

I was still happy to cook for them though.

Spending most of my time on the weapons board, I tend to forget there are a number of women who populate /ck/. Avoiding confrontation is not unusual for them and I should not be so quick to berate anyone on this board.

friends hover around me and eat pieces of food i'm cutting up on the board. "hey man, can i have a piece of that cheese?" or "can i have a slice of that avocado?"

i need it for your fucking dinner! shit makes me rage

I fucking hate picky people.

>>1949860
be glad your friends bother to act interested and keep you company in the kitchen!

>>1949871
i guess you have a valid point there

>>1948010
how rude make him do all the prep next time

>>1949871

I'll keep you company in the kitchen :(

>hey, you like cooking? you should totally cook for me!
>oh, I'm a vegetarian by the way
>but I don't like quinoa
>or zucchini
>or broccoli
>or tofu
>or squash
>or mushrooms

BITCH WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN EAT

>>1947377
This only applies to guests, I'm living with a couple of mates and I force them to clean if they want me to cook for em. Works well!!

>>1949938
a couple of mates?

what does that even mean? is that like a gay couple or something? mates?

>>1947534
>>1947575
>>1947605

You fucking annoying dipshit.

>>1949942
Jesus, amerifags piss me off...

>>1949942
amerifag learn british slang
mates = friends = amigos = homeis

>>1948154
I made some risotto today. It turned out AWESOME, and my boyfriend even SAID that it was the best tasting rice he has ever eaten.

Shortly after saying that, I noticed that he had put McDonald's Honey Mustard sauce on it...

>>1949959

I almost didn't believe you...
no girls on internet, BUT

You stated you were in the kitchen...

>cooking delicious chicken for family
>lay it out to rest
"What are you doing? Nothing's ready! It'll go cold!"
>explain my actions
"That's never cooked, it's not had enough time, get it back in the oven!"
>hold ground, concentrate on cooking, no surrender
>Smile broadly, mission successful
>Hear conversation in the background
"Nobody eat the meat, it'll make you badly. It's not even cooked properly"
>Everybody avoids the meat except Grandfather, who's faith is rewarded with delicious lemon sage chicken
>3 hours later, Grandma starts badgering anyone about whether they have upset stomachs.

She willed herself sick. People are fucked up, /ck/

>>1947308
cook herb crusted djon mustard rack of lamb
cook it fucking perfect medium rare rested everything
dad and mum think its undercooked
before i can do anything MICROWAVE it for 5 mins before eating
my face

I usually don't have a problem with allergies or people being rude about the quality of the food, but there's this one friend I occasionally invite to dinner because she's part of a group... I don't know if she's seriously anorexic or just not hungry (she keeps complaining that she wants to gain weight, bitch is a size 00), but she'll eat about a quarter of what she puts on her plate. I would be fine with this if she would be social or something, but she just sits there quietly and pokes at the unfinished portion which makes everyone else uncomfortable. I just want to enjoy my food and company without worrying about her bony little ass.

>>1949970
Who said I'm a girl?

Where the fuck are you people with this shit? No one ever says shit if someone else cooked. "What's that? Fried cow brain? Delicious." The only time someone said anything was when the dish was venison. Bitch wouldn't eat a chunk of a 'poor little deer.' Her loss, shit rocked.

>>1950019
Where do you live? I know someone exactly like this.

>>1949996
holy fuck your grandma was jsut wth
make her cook it next time

>>1949970
could be faggot...

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Anorexia is a mental illness...you can't fix her by your cooking or including her in food discussion, but if you make an informal buffet, versus a sitdown, then maybe you won't have to notice the fact she didn't actually eat.

wow
just wow

The only plausible explanation I have for all of these anecdotes is that none of you live in the UK and that the stereotype of us all being doubly as polite as the rest of the world is actually true

because goddamn, over here you do NOT complain about the food someone else has cooked for you unless you are my 12-year-old sister, and her comments about my parents' cooking make me RAGE because I swear even 12-year-olds should have some concept of "this person has done a nice thing for you, don't fucking complain about it"

If you don't like it, common courtesy is to leave it quietly at the side of your plate and don't comment on it.

On the same note, though, I hate it when you do leave something quietly on the side of your plate and the host goes "O HAY WHAT'S UP DON'T YOU LIKE THIS? D8" There's an awkward silence and you sort of have to mumble some excuse about "yeah, well, I uh, uhhhhh, THIS OTHER THING WAS REALLY NICE Y'KNOW"

>>1947307

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I've actually never had a problem cooking for other people. But perhaps this is mostly because I usually just cook for myself and share, or we cook it together.

>>1950535

I ALWAYS tell my dinner guests that they are welcome to not like what I've prepared. As long as they're not jerks about it and actually give the food a chance, they can season it extra if they want, or just not eat it, too.

>>1947321

This. So fucking irritating.

>>1950020
>implying they're me, and asking how they know it's a girl
Because I'm the person who wrote it, and I have a vagina between my legs...

>>1951251
Pics or you're lying

ITT: People that claim to not like to cook for other people, when in reality, aren't good enough at cooking to yield an awesome meal regardless of their dinner guests.

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Does the fact that /ck/'s friends all seem to be picky children relate to 4chan's hatred of hipsters? I mean, non-vegan hipsters will eat anything you offer them since they want to look cultured.

>>1951315
I don't care how good of a cook/chef you are... you simply cannot make something with peanuts that will not kill someone, who is allergic to them.

These people should generally indicate allergies to someone who will be cooking for them.