Hell no. Makes me more hungry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 !
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.
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.
I’m the exact same. Also eggs if I think about them for more than a few seconds.
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.
If it does, what’s the point of using meat at all?
Why should it? That makes no sense. I cook to raise appetite, whatever I cook.
I’ve made a comment about this before: a lot of people lose appetite when cooking meals because it puts their brain into work mode, and we don’t associate snacks or food with working.
Probably a more prevalent thing for new cooks or people who aren’t rooutinely cooking dinner.
This is why cooking for other people, with a proper dinner ritual (set the table, talk to others, stay in one place and don’t dsitract yourself with youtube videos) is important. In my opinion. It overcomes the lack of hunger.
If cooking puts you in work mode, you made something wrong. Cooking is fun. Cooking is enjoying the creation of something wonderful, be it for yourself or others.
If cooking puts you in work mode, you made something wrong
That’s a lot of pressure!
If you have to cook dinner quickly because you forgot to and you have to cook for 3+ people, it can easily feel like work
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 mean 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.
This is the correct way!
Agreed on all counts
Makes me hungry!
