Tuesday, 10 November 2009
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Daily Q: Does Food Taste Better When You Make It Yourself?
Most people seem to come down on one side of this one: either they derive particular pleasure from eating something they've made themselves, or they prefer the joy of having someone else cater to them. It's not really about what you think of your own cooking skills, but about how you value the fruits of your own labor.
Where do you stand? Does food taste better when you make it yourself, or when someone else prepares it for you?
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There is definitely something to be said for both sides of this. You can make it taste exactly the way you want it to when you make it yourself. But there is something really nice about having someone else cook for you! (I would be willing to bet the ultimate answer depends on how often you have to cook vs. having someone else cook for you!)
I, personally, will take a home cooked meal any day of the week that I dont have to cook!
Everybody knows that the way to a man's heart is his stomach. Not so well known is that often times the same path exists to a woman's heart.
People prefer to give and receive love in a hierarchy of preferences, unconsciously. The five love languages are as follows (in no particular order):
1. Words of Affirmation
2. Receiving Gifts
3. Quality Time
4. Acts of Service
5. Physical Touch
By cooking for someone, we are performing an Act of Service. We are also performing an act of service by serving them and putting on the nice, romantic dinner as a whole. By serving them food, we were giving them a Gift of a personally-cooked dinner. And by spending the entire night catering to them and engaging in conversation over food and wine, we are spending Quality Time with them.
Beyond this, in conversation we're going to give Words of Affirmation to someone we love anyway. And if all things go well, it's likely there would be some Physical Touch going on as well. ;)
Right there, in one knockout blow, we hit all five love languages at once -- and we may not even realize we we're doing it. It doesn't matter what someone's Love Language hierarchy is -- if they are receptive to receiving love from us, we do well because we sweep their Love Language board clean.
The act of cooking for somebody and sharing our food with them is an extremely effective way of showing love.
As a person who burns toast while standing over the damn toaster, I definitely think food tastes better when prepared by someone else (that someone else being my mom because she is awesome). But, I would think that those that can cook really like the taste of their own food because they know that they worked to make it. Their efforts makes it taste better basically.
With that said, I LOVE cooking for others, but really don't like cooking for myself. It makes me sad most of the time, and there have been times where I end up just abandoning the dish and sitting on the floor of the kitchen, starting at the door.
When someone else cooks for me though, it's such a wonderful, almost magical thing. It could be anything. A peanut butter and jelly sandwich even. And it never fails to bring a smile to my face, and warmth to my heart.
I really don't mind, as long as it tastes good.
Better when somebody else makes it! Though, it also improves the taste when you eat it with people you like, regardless of who did the cooking. Whatever I make myself tends to taste better when I see other people enjoying it; conversely, when I eat by myself, I usually just eat for the sake of getting some food into my body rather than enjoying the food.
It tastes like crap when I make them!
i would take home made food any day over restaurant foods... i enjoy knowing what goes into the food i eat, and enjoy the transformation from its start phase to its end phase. I do enjoy home cooked food from others, and deeply enjoy every time my fiance makes me tea... but that is really all he can 'cook' his other attempts are appreciated, but usually end up in the bin because it just isn't edible. He knows this and is quite happy having me be the only one who cooks =D
i like my cooking.
and by cooking, i mean pathetic quick fix meals worthy of a 16yearold.
Usually it tastes about the same to me. But there are some that I just can't nail (chocolate chip cookies), and some that no one else can (my famous sloppy Joes).
it never does lol. It always taste better at the restaurant, but that's because i'm a health freak and I just HAVE to reduce the salt content of everything I cook.
It's incredibly rewarding to make my own food, so yes, I enjoy it a lot more. However, when I bake, I'm always so proud of my creation that I can't bring myself to eat the pretty desserts! Haha...it's for other people to enjoy!
i grew up in the resturant business, so cooking came naturally. although i didnt cook for myself or my now-husband till about 3 years ago. ever since then ive been a cooking machine. we stopped going out, and now he has to beg me to go out. i prefer my food, and my mothers. i love being able to crave something and replicate it at home. it always turns out better, atleast for me.
hmm.. i think food can taste good when you make it, because you know how you like it. little tidbits here and there, BUT just because i make it doesn't it mean it will always turn out great. i could spend an hr making something... but if not done right it can be disappointing.
@chow - man, i completely feel you on that one...if i make something good for myself i can appreciate it, but i critique my own creations so hard, that sometimes its hard for me to even eat my own stuff. my friends and family love what i make, but sometimes i still cant shake the fact that it would have been better if i had done something differently.
but with that being said. when you get to see the smile on the person's face who's eating your dish, it makes the world that much better. I think that's what I love most about cooking for other people, is that, the person could be having the shittiest day, and all it takes is a great meal to change that around.
food tastes so much better when my mom makes it.
Wholeheartedly YES!!!
There's something about food that you make yourself. I really love cooking for myself and my family!
i think it does, because you're making whatever you like with the things you like :)
both, really.
i love to cook for myself because i know i'll like the seasoning, etc.
but when, say, my grandma makes biscuits or my aunt makes dumpling soup,
nothing can compare.
hahaha, not necessary.
My mom ALWAYS tells me that food that is self-made will always taste better. But considering I can't cook very well, I'd have to disagree. =P Haha.
Homemade food will always be best. As long as I don't have to cook it myself! (I just might cause food-poisoning or end up burning something)
no lol i'm an awful cook
I love to cook but I think I enjoy it better when someone else cooks. It's weird, sometimes if I spend hours cooking or baking something, I'm not even hungry for it anymore. That doesn't happen when someone else cooks.