Question of the month: What cooking trend would you like to see disappear?
Some of the food, gadget, and cooking trends from last year are overly complicated, and some are just plain silly! Are there any in particular that you’d like to see go away and never come back?
My opinion? I’d probably pick useless one-trick gadgets that take up too much room in my fairly compact kitchen and don’t do enough to justify their rent. Don’t get me wrong, I love gadgets with a passion that defies logic…but I have to use them often enough, or else they have to have multiple uses to gain precious drawer space in my kitchen! So, out with the melon baller and the turkey baster. I mean, really!
What would you like to see go? A particular cuisine? A kitchen decorating style? Gadgets that break too easily?
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Jean
Jan 3, 2009 at 11:02 am
I bought a little thingy to cut carrot spirals and do other cute things with veggies. The live demo was so entertaining that I was simply seduced.
I have never used the silly thing and wouldn’t even remember how.
Yet there it still sits in my utensil drawer because, who knows, someday I may really need to do some vegetable art ;-)
Jera
Jan 3, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I love produce from Farmer’s Markets, but I do not like when companys tag their food with the word “organic” and charge twice the price. I do prefer buying locally grown and I think the public needs more clarification on organic products so we can know when something is overpriced. I don’t think the trend for organic foods should disappear, but the fake organic foods should.
Cyndi
Jan 3, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Jean, you probably need to move it into your *art* drawer, where you might actually find a use for it :-)
Cyndi
Jan 3, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Thank you, Jera, I couldn’t agree with you more! I love real organic produce, and often times I can really tell a difference in the taste…meaning it actually *has* a taste!! I will tend to choose local over “organic” that has been raised far away, because I think I’m spending more on transportation and storage, and it’s just not as fresh as my local stuff.
Lisa Harrigan
Jan 4, 2009 at 6:35 pm
I would love to see the end of Hot Chili Peppers in Everything, whether it was in the original recipe or not.
I am allergic, and more and more I can’t eat at restaurants, as they are throwing those hot things in every pepper blend and on everything!
Oh, and Tex Mex Everywhere! (see that chili peppers allergy). I went to one of my favorite IRISH Restaurants (its a chain) and they had changed the menu to TexMex. WTF? What happened to IRISH?
*sigh*
I can’t wait for this fad to be over.
Jera
Jan 5, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Lisa, I agree with you! I’m not allergic to hot peppers and I love TexMex, but I don’t like food that burns my mouth so much that I cannot taste anything else for the rest of the day. When I see hot peppers in a recipe I usually just omit them and in a restaurant I will ask them to omit the hot peppers, or I just order something different. I know more people who will not eat hot peppers than ones that will, so I don’t understand why these restaurants want to make everything so hot.
Cyndi
Jan 6, 2009 at 10:13 am
Do you guys think it’s a macho thing? You know, “My mouth is stronger than your mouth?”
I love hot food, up to a point, but if that point is crossed, my taste buds go numb…what’s the point of that?
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