As opposed to cooking veg or more often. No. Can smells and activity sometimes sate cravings. Yes.
Not at all, it makes me more hungry.
Not only does that not happen to me, the idea that it could happen to someone never crossed my mind. I do not understand how someone could feel that way.
When I was a child, the smell of pork breakfast sausages would make me go pale and hurl even if it was outdoors. Not anymore but I have no idea why!
People are just wired that way. I absolutely love burgers, chicken, pork chops, etc., but when I prepare them (especially with pork), the desire to eat them goes away. Certain smells make me gag, even if they’re not unpleasant to other people.
My SO and I are opposites in this. Weather she or I cook, the smell makes me hungry and excited for food. No matter who cooks, lots of smells upset her. She loves fish, but the smell of cooking fish turns her stomach for example. Funny how different people have totally different reactions !
No matter what I cook for dinner I lose my appetite. Standing in the smell, no matter how good it is, kind off oversaturates my senses, and all flavours seems almost gone when I start to eat it, unless I have had time to do something else between making the dinner and eating it, then it is fine.
You and me both.
Sometimes I wish nutrition pellets had become a thing, but that I could continue to enjoy the ritual that is cooking (which I still do enjoy), but convert the result into a form that didn’t require so much (if any) of my attention to consume.
A few of my friends understood this concept when explained to them, but it remains foreign to many.
Isn’t this just being a chef, except instead of nutrition pellets it’s vodka and cigarettes?
No, it usually makes me hungrier (especially on a barbecue).
Man, I wish. After smelling it raw and cooking it, grill or range, it just grosses me out. If I’m waiting for dinner, though, I have the opposite reaction.
BTW, do you prefer gas or charcoal?
Raw it’s nasty usually, but cooked it can be amazing.
I’m split on that: I like gas for the convenience and the fact that it makes food that’s a bit healthier than charcoal, but taste wise I still like charcoal better (I just don’t use it all that often because of all the carcinogens it adds).
My in-laws actually have an electric grill because of their HOA, and that thing isn’t too shabby either. They’ve grilled us quite a few meals on that thing and I’ve been surprised at how decently it all turned out every time. Not quite as good as a nice mesquite barbecue, but more or less on par with gas taste wise.
An electric grill? That’s pretty surprising. I also go for charcoal, but I wasn’t aware of the carcinogens. I tend to just use regular charcoal and paper. No lighter fluid or starters, if that’s any better.
It’s not the end of the world if you use charcoal here and there, especially if you don’t overcook/char your food. I like those cans you put the charcoal in, light, then dump into the grill. They work fine with paper or lighter fluid.
it makes food that’s a bit healthier than charcoal, but taste wise I still like charcoal better (I just don’t use it all that often because of all the carcinogens it adds).
That’s because of USians’ lousy technique. Find out how asado is cooked in Argentina. Slow burn, but much healthier. And you can have meat that is cooked and juicy at the same time.
That’s a pretty disingenuous statement, there are plenty of low and slow cooking techniques practiced in the US including the one you’re describing: The high heat is one cause of carcinogens, but it is not the only factor:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10373722/
TL;DR: Reducing the heat the food is exposed to reduces, but does not eliminate carcinogens.
Amateurs! 3 hours for ribs? Try 5 hours on my pellet grill/smoker
Is the meat under open flame at ANY time?
My pellet smoker never has exposed flame , although I might turn it up at times to sear the outside.
The trick is that when you don’t have cider or apple juice to add moisture while forming a crust, apricot preserves work really well …… somehow I always have that.
But if you want that fall off the bone tenderness from a tough cut of meat, you need to cook low and slow.
Is that because it’s out of a packet where it’s been sitting for ages?
If I could get it fresher, I would. I tend to freeze meats unless I’m going to cook them right away.
That’s fair, where I am at the moment the fresh meat stalls on the side of the road smell nice to my nose, but I remember that out of a packet it smells terrible!
Same. Love cooking on the bbq or smoking meats. So good and makes me hungry almost every time.
Nope. I’m fine hunting, butchering, preparing and cooking my food. Yum.
That said, I do respect the vegan position and I work hard on getting a family into flexitarianism and reduced meat consumption.
I also strongly support ethical farm practices that give animals a high quality, if short life and a painless wink to the other side. Prices be damned. Just makes it easier to go more meatless.
Agreed on all counts
This is the correct way!
Damn a steak cooking, with onions and peppers sauteeing, is the stuff my nose dreams of
Hell no. Makes me more hungry.
No. Cooking any food makes me more hungry. Even in the decades I was vegetarian it didn’t bother me, honestly.
Same, as another former vegetarian. The only meat that bothered me was hot dogs because the smell always made me crave one even after years of vegetarianism.
Meat doesn’t bother me, but eggs… 🤢 the smell of eggs frying makes me gag. I’ll eat them at a restaurant, but I’ll never cook them at home.
I think it’s a fair assumption that those that cook meat generally enjoy the taste and smell
Raw chicken does, but cooked chicken brings it back.
Yeah, I can see that with chicken sometimes. Pork chops? Hard pass.
Me, personally? No. I’m also good with handling and preparing raw meat. I use gloves, or I wash my hands, but I can butcher some meat and cut it how I want it, it does not bother me in the least.
Cooking the meat? Not at all.
I like the smell of cooking meat. Raw chicken is gross to touch bare handed for me. Won’t lose an appetite over it though.
Raw chicken breast, skin-off, is among the single grossest foods to handle. I’m a huge lover of cooking and I didn’t learn to cook chicken breast for ages because of the feel of it.
I usually wear gloves for it now, even after nearly two decades of having cooked it. And for most other poultry, but it’s chicken breast that’s the worst.
Try working in a grocery meat department. Having to clean under the racks where the chicken sat still scars me to this day. Imagine pumping a drunk, morbidly obese man full of farts which he then vomits back up and you’ll have a good idea of what that smelled like.
Disgusting as fuck. I never cooked raw meat at home as an adult and eventually after some years I went full on vegan. Why continue eating animals when it’s completely unnecessary?
I’m also vegan. My partner isn’t.
She occasionally cooks pig flesh and it makes me feel sick. The smell is so much more disgusting than cow or chicken.
I’m in the same boat but my wife doesn’t cook meat often. She also doesn’t like pork.
I have been around some old friends in the Midwest though who were cooking pork chops and yeah, you’re completely right: the smell is much nastier.
