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6042212 No.6042212 [Reply] [Original]

Why won't people listen to cookery advice?

This is my mother's roast dinner:
>slow-cooked pork loin steaks
>unseasoned mashed potato
>boiled broccoli
>boiled sprouts
>boiled cauliflower
>boiled carrots
>boiled, unseasoned mashed swede
>all of this is unseasoned
>nothing is roasted

I try to help her and tell her that there are different ways to cook vegetables other than just boiling them in unsalted water. But she won't listen. I try to teach her how to season but she won't do that either.

What can I do to help?

>> No.6042215

cook for her

>> No.6042216

>>6042212

Tell her to stop liking what you don't like.

>> No.6042227

>>6042215
I've tried but even though she enjoys my cooking a lot, she won't listen when I tell her how to recreate it.

>>6042216
I wouldn't mind if she acknowledged her flaws, but she pretends as if her cooking is the best. If it was a case of 'I can't be bothered to make the effort', then I would get it. But it's as if she thinks that boiling everything is genuinely THE best way to cook.

>> No.6042229
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6042229

>>6042212
BECAUSE WERE EVIL AND WE WANT TO EAT YOUR BABBBYFUS!

>> No.6042230

>>6042227

>I've tried but even though she enjoys my cooking a lot, she won't listen when I tell her how to recreate it.

then forget about it, who gives a shit.

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6042231

>>6042229
>because were evil
>were evil
>were

>> No.6042232

>>6042212
Get her drunk, she'll pass out on a couch, then make the food, she'll wake up and be polite, tell her that she made it and everyone is enjoying her great skill as a cook.

Diplomacy.

>> No.6042234

>>6042230
You know what, that's totally the best approach, but I just find it hard to ignore my frustration.

>> No.6042235

>>6042231
How like an obama type, not quite getting the point, but then socialists never do, and they never will.

>> No.6042237

>>6042227

If she likes it, who cares? Don't humiliate your mother, just let her have this.

>> No.6042288

>>6042237
I'm not trying to humiliate her, I'm trying to teach her how to cook well.

>> No.6042558

i mean, the food could look worse dude. why dont you get her into aromatics and fresh herbs? even if you boiled those veggies with onions and garlic and bay leaf and rosemary, it'd still taste good.

>> No.6042635

>>6042234

look i sort of helped my mum get better at cooking myself. i didn't criticise her, just cooked for her when i came round and over time she absorbed some of the stuff i'd learned. she still avoids seasoning food because she's squeamish about sodium and shit but what are ya gonna do. let her do what she wants.