# Your most shameful culinary practices **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [March 23, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498 "2021-03-23T15:42:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/181 "2021-03-24T22:17:48Z")
The term ‘short’ with regard to baked goods has been around for a very long time, quite possibly longer than gluten was understood to be ‘strands’ According to the OED, it may be connected with a non-food origin relating the crumbly nature of dung cite: [WTF is shortening? - YouTube](https://youtu.be/n4IH8-io6Dw?t=151) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/182 "2021-03-24T22:18:56Z")
Yes, lots of golden raisins in the type of fruitcake I like, plus currants. No nuts except on top. Sure, glaced fruit, too, but dont get crazy. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/183 "2021-03-24T23:27:28Z")
I also eat cold cereal dry. I might drink some milk with it but I don’t put it in the bowl with the cereal like some heathen. I like to slightly over bake my chocolate chip cookies or gingerbread so they’re almost burned and very crisp. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/184 "2021-03-25T00:06:07Z")
Isn’t everything? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/185 "2021-03-25T00:06:40Z")
I always burn a batch for myself! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/186 "2021-03-25T00:07:55Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I like to slightly over bake my chocolate chip cookies We’re supposed to _cook_ them??? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/187 "2021-03-25T00:36:02Z")
I have absolutely no idea where to start. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/188 "2021-03-25T02:12:17Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I like to slightly over bake my chocolate chip cookies or gingerbread so they’re almost burned and very crisp. I firmly (heh heh) believe that cookies should be crisp, and all soft cookies are an abomination. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/189 "2021-03-25T02:14:29Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > I always burn a batch for myself! > [@scabpicker](#): > > > [@kitap](#): > > > > I like to slightly over bake my chocolate chip cookies or gingerbread so they’re almost burned and very crisp. > > I firmly (heh heh) believe that cookies should be crisp, and all soft cookies are an abomination. My people! 😀😀😀😀 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/190 "2021-03-25T02:31:23Z")
I make Philly cheesesteaks with Steak-Umms - two portions per store-brand hoagie roll. And I prefer to top them with pepperjack cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/191 "2021-03-25T02:54:14Z")
Since you like baked beans, you might like this shameful recipe - add chopped hot dogs to the beans, pour the mix into a baking dish, then top with mixed Jiffy corn muffin batter and bake according to the directions on the box. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/192 "2021-03-25T03:02:15Z")
Growing up, I had a friend who would make “peanut butter, butter butter, and honey” sandwiches, the “butter butter” being dairy butter. It was decadent. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/193 "2021-03-25T03:23:44Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > A year or two ago, I remember admitting here that sometimes, when I’m making a second pot of coffee, I’ll just add new coffee grounds on top of the grounds from the first pot rather than dumping out the filter basket and starting fresh. > > Judging by the outrage, you would have thought I’d confessed to stomping on puppies and kittens. lol you should have seen the outrage when Keurig mentioned you could possibly use the same kcup twice although there is a bit of taste difference for doing so … > [@sitchensis](#): > > I love peanut butter, lettuce and mayo sandwiches. this my aunt … from what i understand its a great depression carryover My shame is there’s nothing wrong with a bbq chicken pizza with shrooms and no onions from dominos , I dislike those rising crust frozen pizzas … give me tombstone red baron or tostinos party pizzas … or even tonys if that’s all there is I have no use for most breakfast foods … I will eat cold leftovers for breakfast… oh and since mom hated wilk with an unholy passion i learned to eat cereal from a box like chips from a bag … ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/194 "2021-03-25T03:26:33Z")
toi hell with baking cookies … ill make a triple batch of cookie dough and eat it with a spoon …when Pillsbury decided to make all their doughs edible from the package i lept for joy … ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/195 "2021-03-25T03:59:04Z")
I dont like raw cookie dough. At all. I do like my CC cookies slightly crisp. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/196 "2021-03-25T04:02:34Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > oh and since mom hated wilk with an unholy passion i learned to eat cereal from a box like chips from a bag … I don’t know what wilk is, but she was probably right to hate it. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/197 "2021-03-25T04:52:46Z")
If I make a big pot of chili, or spaghetti sauce, or beef stew, I frequently leave it on the stove over night to cool before putting the leftovers in Tupperware and into the refrigerator. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/198 "2021-03-25T06:45:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > My version of this is the classic “Diner Hot Turkey Sandwich.” The same sliced turkey meat heaped on a slice or two of white bread, smothered in canned gravy, and served with a scoop of mashed potatoes and peas or green beans. All heated in the microwave. > > I do the same classic “Hot” sandwich with sliced roast beef and canned beef gravy. Sometimes I’ll use the variety with mushroom bits in it. Takes me back to road trips with my dad when I was a kid. These both sound really good. Fortunately I don’t have a microwave, so that limits my schenanigans. I also drink the last of the soy sauce, mix cereal (Holdover from college meal plans, where you had to sign up for freshman year. If you didn’t like what they were serving, there was always containers of cereal as well.) and grew up with something other than mayo in the fridge. Love pineapple on pizza. My favorite way to enjoy green beans is straight out of the jar, home-canned by my parents. Fortunately they do have a microwave, so sometimes I even heat the green beans. 🙂 And I like Twinkies. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/199 "2021-03-25T10:20:55Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > I have no use for most breakfast foods … I will eat cold leftovers for breakfast… Good call! Cold dall on toast is one of the great breakfasts. Indeed. any left-over curry served cold on toast is a fine breakfast. (Has to be white bread, obviously.) > [@terentii](#): > > My version of this is the classic “Diner Hot Turkey Sandwich.” The same sliced turkey meat heaped on a slice or two of white bread, smothered in canned gravy, and served with a scoop of mashed potatoes and peas or green beans. All heated in the microwave. Not me, but Trep jr - he’s notorious for the annual Xmas Dinner Sandwich, served late in the evening of the 25th. The only real difference from the above is that, being made from left-over Xmas dinner, he includes more exotica. Like brussels sprouts, parsnips and pigs in blankets. And he eats it cold. j ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498/200 "2021-03-25T11:49:53Z")
> [@Tarataratara](#): > > Growing up, I had a friend who would make “peanut butter, butter butter, and honey” sandwiches, the “butter butter” being dairy butter. It was decadent. I have enjoyed that very thing on a toasted english muffin. yum! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-shameful-culinary-practices/938498.md?page=11)