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#41 Sat 07 Nov 09 11:18am
shammrok
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Re: Is there a cooking or food preparation process that you hate?
Gutting and scaling fish and shelling and deveining prawns....YUK! 
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#42 Sat 07 Nov 09 1:01pm
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Re: Is there a cooking or food preparation process that you hate?
I hate hate hate washing leafy vegetables like romaine, spinach, dandelions, and leeks. Sometimes that stuff needs to be triple washed and before you know it a simple side dish becomes a big pain in the rear end.
I hate seasoning meat or fish, especially large pieces like an entire chicken or turkey. I am OCD about hygiene and everytime the meat has to be turned over I have to stop and wash my hands lest I contaminate my pepper grinder. Sometimes I can avoid this by using tongs but for some reason all the tongs are nowhere to be found at that moment 
Half the obstacle of cooking is chopping onions for me. I am so so so sensitive. I have goggles and they work pretty well for small jobs, but if I have a lot of onions to cut the fumes eventually get to me.
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#43 Sat 07 Nov 09 1:03pm
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Re: Is there a cooking or food preparation process that you hate?
jutta73 wrote:
frizz1974 wrote:
Hate touching raw chicken - and crumbing - I do crumb chicken, veal & fish fillets & sometimes eggplant slices but its a job I dont like so I usually try to do a big batch at once.
Right now I have 3kg of chicken thigh fillets all crumbed & ready to go in the freezer as they werre on special & it was much better for me to buy loads & get it all done & cleaned up after in one afternoon.I love crumbing. I think it is one of my favourite things to do. Isn't it funny how different we all are?
What is crumbing?
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#44 Sat 07 Nov 09 1:35pm
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Re: Is there a cooking or food preparation process that you hate?
Breadcrumbing. So, egg-dip and then rolling in breadcrumbs. I hate doing that too, you build up a near-impenetrable layer of the stuff on your hands. Never quite got the hang of using one hand for the dip, one hand for the crumbs.
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#45 Sat 07 Nov 09 7:34pm
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Re: Is there a cooking or food preparation process that you hate?
Preparing squid!! absolutely hate that... 
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#46 Sat 07 Nov 09 10:09pm
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Re: Is there a cooking or food preparation process that you hate?
FV - It really is funny how we are all different - i would say I love prepping squid or prawns but I do get a real sense of acheivement from it - when we have family gatherings I can spend an hour or 2 prepping seafood with my FIL - everyone else in the family hate it & sook if they even have to watch.
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#47 Sun 08 Nov 09 7:21am
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Re: Is there a cooking or food preparation process that you hate?
Anna wrote:
Breadcrumbing. So, egg-dip and then rolling in breadcrumbs. I hate doing that too, you build up a near-impenetrable layer of the stuff on your hands. Never quite got the hang of using one hand for the dip, one hand for the crumbs.
I cover the chicken or other meat in flour (seasoned with pepper), shake off the excess, then dip in egg and let any excess drip off, then cover in breadcrumbs. I put a bit of olive oil in a non-stick frying pan and fry until the chicken is cooked - it is delicious! 
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#48 Mon 09 Nov 09 4:14am
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Re: Is there a cooking or food preparation process that you hate?
jutta73 wrote:
Anna wrote:
Breadcrumbing. So, egg-dip and then rolling in breadcrumbs. I hate doing that too, you build up a near-impenetrable layer of the stuff on your hands. Never quite got the hang of using one hand for the dip, one hand for the crumbs.
I cover the chicken or other meat in flour (seasoned with pepper), shake off the excess, then dip in egg and let any excess drip off, then cover in breadcrumbs. I put a bit of olive oil in a non-stick frying pan and fry until the chicken is cooked - it is delicious!
Dry, then wet, then dry. I actually like doing that, too. One dry hand, one wet hand, what's the big deal? But you can always use tongs for both of them.
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#49 Mon 09 Nov 09 4:37am
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Re: Is there a cooking or food preparation process that you hate?
Chocolat; how do you get it from the egg and into the breadcrunbs and then into the pan without getting your dry hand gooby or your wet hand claggy? If I use tongs I just get them gooby and claggy! 
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#50 Mon 09 Nov 09 7:26am
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Re: Is there a cooking or food preparation process that you hate?
I usually get gluggy hands towards the end of the process. I use my left hand for the flour, then my right hand for the egg, and then my left hand for the breadcrumbs. This minimises the glug.
It is funny I hate rubbing butter into flour, but I love crumbing!
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