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.
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.
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.
Raw chicken does, but cooked chicken brings it back.
Yeah, I can see that with chicken sometimes. Pork chops? Hard pass.
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.
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
yes, it’s disgusting
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?
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!
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 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.
Amateurs! 3 hours for ribs? Try 5 hours on my pellet grill/smoker
I don’t like spatchcocking a Chicken or breaking down a whole Turkey, its a really crunchy and visceral process. Prepping crawfish or crab then boiling them is also offputting but once prepped and ready to eat, I’m not as grossed out unless I really think about it. I have found myself working to eat less meat in general for ethical/moral reasons as I have gotten older though.
Damn a steak cooking, with onions and peppers sauteeing, is the stuff my nose dreams of
Handling raw meat or smelling it cooked makes me nauseous. I was vegetarian for a long time, even vegan for a bit. I’m at peace with the fact I wouldn’t eat animals products if I had to prepare them.
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.
Makes me hungry!
I stopped eating red meat a few years ago, and hate seafood, so all that’s left is chicken. I like chicken, I eat it almost every day now. But, it’s getting to be that time of year, when I go for my walk around the neighborhood in the evening, that I get the occasional whiff of grilling beef. I miss it, but I’m better off without it.
I could kill and dress a chicken or a rabbit, if I had to. I’ve never done it, but I could do it.
Nah, it’s mostly fine, even though I don’t eat any. I’m super bothered by anything that’s fish or seafood though, cooking anything like that kills my appetite for as long as there’s still any detectable smell in the kitchen
