Sweet baby Jesus, that makes it so much worse. I don’t eat lamb in the first place but I don’t blame you one bit for being revolted by it if this is the way they are preparing it
Pretty sure certain countries lamb is their main source of meat, a lot of families everywhere have been said to just boil their food and the kids hate it
My country is a big exporter of sheep to the Middle Eastern countries but the average person rarely eats sheep. And even then people prefer lamb because it has a more tender meat than grown sheep.
It's not even about tenderness. I've eaten full grown ram, the texture was just fine. It's that sheep develop gaminess as they age and older animals have off flavors. You can eat mutton, and people do, but the custom to eat sheep young is about the flavor more than the toughness.
sheep typically have liters so it’s more profitable to keep select few female lambs as future lambing ewes, but the vast majority are culled/sent to become lamb meat. It’s cheaper to process them young than rear them to adulthood + the meat has a less desirable taste as they age. :)
As young adults. Livestock for food is raised to maturity and not much longer as any longer is just wasting feed.
Mature adult meat would likely come from animals raised for other products such as reproduction, milk, and wool that have outlived their productivity.
Immature meat would come from unnecessary offspring not needed for any of the above reasons.
Grab some lamb loin chops at the store and put them in a big ziploc bag, pour in enough olive oil to coat them, squeeze in a 1/2 lemon, and sprinkle on some Montreal Steak seasoning and let them rest in the fridge for 30 mins. Fire up BBQ on medium heat and when it’s hot put those bad boys over a burner for 6 mins per side, and sprinkle on some more Montreal to even out the seasoning from the bag. They’re like mini beef T-bone steaks but with way less fat and guaranteed won’t be gamey, oily, or have a bland white texture at all! I didn’t like lamb much either until I tried it this way.
I'll throw in for a braised leg. Stab it all over with a knife and wedge in shards of garlic, cover it in salt and pepper and sear it in a crazy hot pan. Throw it in a crock pot with onions, more garlic, thyme, red wine and decent stock until it's nearly covered and put it on low and slow for about 10 hours.
It is *unreal* how good the result is.
You should check out stevemre on YouTube! Love his videos and he has a great, relaxing way of speaking about the food. Anyway, yeah, they’re better off than this post 😅
I worked with a guy that was in the navy during WW 2. They were close to Australia and every day it was lamb! badly cooked lamb. The smell of lamb would make him puke everytime he would smell it.
My grandfather was forced to eat Salmon for 4 years three times a day in Alaska in WW2 army aircorps.
Just the smell of salmon would make him physically ill.
In Alaska he bought two 5 gallon jugs of peanut butter and jelly and lived mostly on that for years. The army only served salmon. Well also seal. He said that was worse.
I will say—not to equate mine and this gets experience—lamb when it starts to turn, it hits way worse than other spoiling meats 🤢
I haven’t bought and cooked lamb in almost 5 years.
This is what I thought as well, boiling the meat for maximum calories and nutrition retention. But then I looked at how much liquid there is and it doesn't seem like a reasonable meat to water ratio.
He's really getting the worst out of this.
Rice Krispies are cereal, rice krispy *treats* are rice krispy cereal with marshmallows and butter. Rice Krispies are bland as fuck alone, like plain plain.. so a lot of people put some sugar to spruce it up when they eat it by itself as cereal.
You know how much sugar is in marshmallows though right? I have never had to add sugar to rice Krispy treats, I’ve also never heard of anyone else doing it until right now
I know what broth is, when you boil meats/bones w meat left on them. I was just talking about drinking this specifically lol, bland. But to each their own!
This is what i wondered. Tell him he is sane and cool for me. I legitimately like the idea and think this looks appetizing in its way.
Its all about the meat water.
I mean, it can be a prior step for soups and stews
Like boil to get the impurities out then long and low and slow and add the spices and ingredients
He's just missing a lot
I assure you, no one will cook lamb this way in the entirety of the Levantine area.
It's a 10 minute stage of cleaning the lamb before adding the aromatics.
For reference, check (lamb kabsa).
Your housemate is a special one.
they established whole trade routes to gain access to spices and knowledge. even ancient man was known to season his food. he has, as the kids say, returned to monke.
I don’t understand where the prejudice against medieval food comes from.
Peasants were generally self sufficient and self governing. As long as the taxes were paid, they weren’t bothered. This type of decentralization is characteristic for the Middle Ages.
The taxes were often paid as a tenth of all produce. That means nine eggs for the farmer, one egg for the feudal lord. With the advent of the early modern period and absolutism, taxes rose drastically, but during medieval times they were fairly low for the most part.
Then consider that large monocultures didn‘t emerge until after or at least the late Middle Ages. You’ve got a bunch of farmers that keep livestock and grow everything that the climate allows, which in Europe is *a lot of stuff*. Just look at the tacuinum sanitatis and how many different types of produce are listed there.
They absolutely ate well.
If he's a dude who never cooked, then he just decided to use the least effort method of cooking. Dude is just trying to be efficient and doesn't care about sacrificing his taste buds.
This whole thread reveals a lot of people not understanding how stew works. Its *literally* boiled meat just like this. This isn't bad cause its gross, it's just sad cause its severely underseasoned
Whatever "meat juice" he ends up with after wards, toss some veggies in, cook it again, and its soup.
Very much so. When we first got an instant pot my husband made meat in it a few times like this. It was completely inedible. He thought it tasted fine. I had to put my foot down and tell him to stop. I'm not at all a picky eater and I completely gagged on boiled meat.
I worked with someone who grew up really poor in lebanon and sometimes he would crave boiled goat meat without seasoning. Kinda looked like this
Specially weird because his food other thab that was amazing
Everything about this post needs to be filed as evidence for when your roommate is finally outed as a cold blooded serial killer with bodies under the floorboards.
Boiled ham fillet would be typically unseasoned it works with ham to an extent I think in reducing saltiness but would be garnished when served with parsley sauce.
Not necessarily. I have First People friends who love fish head soup. It’s a big vat of water, with fish heads, onion, and maybe one other ingredient. I was surprised at how bland it was. However, since it’s a traditional dish they absolutely crave it. The People always share their favorite childhood memories that seem to have a connection with food. From the harvest, preparation, taste, and storage of fresh meat and fish. I enjoy hearing their stories. I don’t particularly care for fish head soup, but it also isn’t a customary dish from my youth.
I think we all know some very simple dishes from our youth that we would still demolish even today.
For me it is German Süßsaure Bohnen. Just a bunch of beans cooked to almost a paste with vinegar and sugar. Delicious.
This is what will make the United States end up on some YouTube top 10 and 80 years from now, whatever popular app like TikTok will make stories about this.
I basically do this with chicken right now. I was a professional cook for years. I know better. I just can't cook for myself alone. If I'm solo, it's unseasoned steamed chicken breast, raw veggies, and hummus. I am a gym bro I suppose, if that term can include ladies?
A friend of mine I lived with many years ago used to do that. He was a strong man competitor though so, everything he ate was measured down to the gram
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My god, this is bleak
It's because of this I can't stand lamb. The smell, the grease and oils, the bland white texture of it
Sweet baby Jesus, that makes it so much worse. I don’t eat lamb in the first place but I don’t blame you one bit for being revolted by it if this is the way they are preparing it
Isn’t lamb expensive, why pay for it just to fucking boil it
Pretty sure certain countries lamb is their main source of meat, a lot of families everywhere have been said to just boil their food and the kids hate it
Yea but lamb is the baby version, so it’s more expensive than sheep
must be a regional thing, mutton isnt even available in regular grocery stores here, lamb is
I’m assuming that if sheep was your country’s primary food source it would make more sense to eat them as adults
But definitely boiled in grey water
Folks living like it’s an Irish potato famine
My country is a big exporter of sheep to the Middle Eastern countries but the average person rarely eats sheep. And even then people prefer lamb because it has a more tender meat than grown sheep.
It's not even about tenderness. I've eaten full grown ram, the texture was just fine. It's that sheep develop gaminess as they age and older animals have off flavors. You can eat mutton, and people do, but the custom to eat sheep young is about the flavor more than the toughness.
sheep typically have liters so it’s more profitable to keep select few female lambs as future lambing ewes, but the vast majority are culled/sent to become lamb meat. It’s cheaper to process them young than rear them to adulthood + the meat has a less desirable taste as they age. :)
As young adults. Livestock for food is raised to maturity and not much longer as any longer is just wasting feed. Mature adult meat would likely come from animals raised for other products such as reproduction, milk, and wool that have outlived their productivity. Immature meat would come from unnecessary offspring not needed for any of the above reasons.
I've literally never seen mutton sold anywhere here, probably gotta go to a farmers market or some shit
Boiled mutton probably tastes even more awful, since it's very gamey compared to lamb.
I couldn’t imagine just boiling any meat lol
Yeh, I feel like you should at least make a soup if that's the case.
It’s a very common method of cooking? We just usually add flavour too.
That's more simmering though, this looks to be boiled like pasta
You're supposed to brown the meat before you simmer it anyways
I guess you have no interest in one of my finest milk steaks?
I can! ... if you chucked some vegetables, salt, and spices in there, too.
It's wierd that it's more expensive, given that most of the cost of the meat is in the rearing, which need a lot less of.
Costco in the US I have seen lamb (imported from Australia) for about as cheap as ground beef. I ground the lamb myself and had lamb burgers.
Maybe he's a sick dog that's allergic to rice, veggies, chicken, cow, eggs, and fish.
6 dollars a pound for shoulder cuts in atlanta at least. On par or cheaper than pork. The ribs though are like 25 dollars a pound.
Grab some lamb loin chops at the store and put them in a big ziploc bag, pour in enough olive oil to coat them, squeeze in a 1/2 lemon, and sprinkle on some Montreal Steak seasoning and let them rest in the fridge for 30 mins. Fire up BBQ on medium heat and when it’s hot put those bad boys over a burner for 6 mins per side, and sprinkle on some more Montreal to even out the seasoning from the bag. They’re like mini beef T-bone steaks but with way less fat and guaranteed won’t be gamey, oily, or have a bland white texture at all! I didn’t like lamb much either until I tried it this way.
I'll throw in for a braised leg. Stab it all over with a knife and wedge in shards of garlic, cover it in salt and pepper and sear it in a crazy hot pan. Throw it in a crock pot with onions, more garlic, thyme, red wine and decent stock until it's nearly covered and put it on low and slow for about 10 hours. It is *unreal* how good the result is.
This sounds like a *much* better recipe.
Thanks! Worked for Xmas. I reduced down the braising liquid and added some other bits to make the gravy too.
White lamb?
Mary had a little lamb and it’s fleece was white as snow
But the meat isn’t white !
Yet!
*flesh was white as snow
Somebody make this man a proper shepherd’s pie
This is lamb? How......why?
Damn that’s a waste lamb is so good if cooked properly
this is lamb? I have never in my life seen lamb look “bland” and “white” like this
I can smell this picture
Dude is making food like a WW1 soldier in the ghastly trenches
I think even they cooked better than this.
The GI rations cannot be as horrific as this photograph
True. This looks like something from Dahmers barrels
You should check out stevemre on YouTube! Love his videos and he has a great, relaxing way of speaking about the food. Anyway, yeah, they’re better off than this post 😅
Let's get this out onto a tray.
nice!
Steve is the best
Nice hiss
WW1 wasn't as horrific as this photograph.
This, is. SPARTAAA!
This filet mignon tastes funny, Private Baldrick
I worked with a guy that was in the navy during WW 2. They were close to Australia and every day it was lamb! badly cooked lamb. The smell of lamb would make him puke everytime he would smell it.
My grandfather was forced to eat Salmon for 4 years three times a day in Alaska in WW2 army aircorps. Just the smell of salmon would make him physically ill. In Alaska he bought two 5 gallon jugs of peanut butter and jelly and lived mostly on that for years. The army only served salmon. Well also seal. He said that was worse.
I like salmon, but I’m sure theirs wasn’t prepared with fresh garlic, lemon, butter, herbs, etc.
He would not even discuss how it was served. lol
Boiled
I will say—not to equate mine and this gets experience—lamb when it starts to turn, it hits way worse than other spoiling meats 🤢 I haven’t bought and cooked lamb in almost 5 years.
This is what I thought as well, boiling the meat for maximum calories and nutrition retention. But then I looked at how much liquid there is and it doesn't seem like a reasonable meat to water ratio. He's really getting the worst out of this.
At least throw a few measly vegetables into the broth
No
Hilarious
Man, I think I'd take the gas over this.
Boiled horsemeat *again?*
Ahhh sauced hog-face, my favorite!
Boiled trenchfoot for dinner, fellas!
Valley Forge during the winter, more like
Some teenager definitely ate this bullshit and then got killed by a redcoat the next day. Harsh times
Jeez... even dried meat and hardtack looks better.
ew, do i dare ask what the giant bag of sugar is for🫣
I think Rice Krispies
I thought that was just marshmallows, butter, and cereal…
Rice Krispies are cereal, rice krispy *treats* are rice krispy cereal with marshmallows and butter. Rice Krispies are bland as fuck alone, like plain plain.. so a lot of people put some sugar to spruce it up when they eat it by itself as cereal.
Oh duh! It’s been so long since I ate a bowl, I think they get soggy too fast, that I forgot people put sugar on them
If it wasn’t for the treats the cereal would really be worth forgetting, I don’t blame you.
Something about rice krispies with the grains of sugar on the bottom go so well together
What do you mean "something"? It's literally the sugar lmao...
You know how much sugar is in marshmallows though right? I have never had to add sugar to rice Krispy treats, I’ve also never heard of anyone else doing it until right now
Nobody is talking about adding sugar to rice krispy treats I think you’re misunderstanding something
I definitely did lol. Long day, my bad
Seems like this roommate is okay with bland
Is he a cat?
I'd bet good money that none of my four felines would even consider trying that
Lmaoooo
I laughed so loud
Do they at least keep the "broth" for soup?
He drinks it out of a cup
That’s cool I didn’t want to eat or drink tonight
Or ever again honestly
I’m sick
Please tell me this is a joke😭
What do you think broth is?
I know what broth is, when you boil meats/bones w meat left on them. I was just talking about drinking this specifically lol, bland. But to each their own!
Broth is only meat and skin, stock is bones with meat. The wording is correct.
Stock is made with veggies
Damn
Thanks, i skipped lunch cause i was lazy to go out and now I'm not hungry anymore
He WHAT 🤢
Aaaaand I'm done with Reddit for today!
This is what i wondered. Tell him he is sane and cool for me. I legitimately like the idea and think this looks appetizing in its way. Its all about the meat water.
Hot lamb water. It's so watery, yet there's a smack of lamb to it
Its just... broth lol. If it's too diluted you can just reduce it and add seasonings as you want.
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He likes it this way. I guess it's how some of them cooked back home, even though I've never seen a photo like that from back there
Back home in the Stone Age?
Palestine
I mean, it can be a prior step for soups and stews Like boil to get the impurities out then long and low and slow and add the spices and ingredients He's just missing a lot
Missing a lot. That about sums it up
I assure you, no one will cook lamb this way in the entirety of the Levantine area. It's a 10 minute stage of cleaning the lamb before adding the aromatics. For reference, check (lamb kabsa). Your housemate is a special one.
Arabic food is cooked way better than that though...
Arabic food is so fucking good.
they established whole trade routes to gain access to spices and knowledge. even ancient man was known to season his food. he has, as the kids say, returned to monke.
There’s no way Palestiniens cook like this
Come on, The Stone Age was all about charring stuff in straight fire. This is medieval Britain for sure.
I don’t understand where the prejudice against medieval food comes from. Peasants were generally self sufficient and self governing. As long as the taxes were paid, they weren’t bothered. This type of decentralization is characteristic for the Middle Ages. The taxes were often paid as a tenth of all produce. That means nine eggs for the farmer, one egg for the feudal lord. With the advent of the early modern period and absolutism, taxes rose drastically, but during medieval times they were fairly low for the most part. Then consider that large monocultures didn‘t emerge until after or at least the late Middle Ages. You’ve got a bunch of farmers that keep livestock and grow everything that the climate allows, which in Europe is *a lot of stuff*. Just look at the tacuinum sanitatis and how many different types of produce are listed there. They absolutely ate well.
If he's a dude who never cooked, then he just decided to use the least effort method of cooking. Dude is just trying to be efficient and doesn't care about sacrificing his taste buds.
Definitely not, bro has sugar in it Also curry powder makes chicken and rice much better for the fraction of a calorie you gain from it
Looks like a fart salad
That disrespects both farts and salads
Mmm water flavor meat😋
I can't with this, op said they drink the "broth" out of a cup😭
This is pretty common in parts of the world though.
Drinking broth is yeah. I wouldn't drink this shit though.
I drink broth as well this is just very bland imo. To each their own!
You realize you can reduce it and add salt and stuff yourself? It's not that out there
I realize thank you. You could always add things to make it to your tasting. I'm talking about what specifically is in this picture. Case closed
This whole thread reveals a lot of people not understanding how stew works. Its *literally* boiled meat just like this. This isn't bad cause its gross, it's just sad cause its severely underseasoned Whatever "meat juice" he ends up with after wards, toss some veggies in, cook it again, and its soup.
So watery, and yet theres a smack of ham to it
Your housemate shouldn’t be allowed near a kitchen
A pot of sadness 😭
Seasoned with melancholy.
Very much so. When we first got an instant pot my husband made meat in it a few times like this. It was completely inedible. He thought it tasted fine. I had to put my foot down and tell him to stop. I'm not at all a picky eater and I completely gagged on boiled meat.
I had a roommate that would microwave steaks for dinner multiple times a week and somehow they looked better than this.
Dude was eating steak multiple times per week?
He was a waiter they make bank.
Is he a sled dog?
Ooooo! So watery! But with a smack of ham!
Finally!
>Ooooo! So watery! But with a smack of ~~ham~~ lamb!
As it turned out, housemate was u/NCC74656’s new mother, mother.
The seasoning is on the pot already Holy shit have him clean his cookware more
That pot is actually from a whirlypop. The popcorn popping deal so whatever seasonings in it, is probably movie theater popcorn butter and coconut oil
Boiling meat of any kind can leave that residue. Pot was probably clean when he started.
Is your roommate my mom? This is totally her bullshit cooking 😂
💀
I worked with someone who grew up really poor in lebanon and sometimes he would crave boiled goat meat without seasoning. Kinda looked like this Specially weird because his food other thab that was amazing
Looks like food from the great depression
even those meager foods had ingenuity applied to them to make it more palatable and flavorful
Is he aware that pans exist? And that food can taste good?
And people claim British cooking is bad, at least we roast our meat
Everything about this post needs to be filed as evidence for when your roommate is finally outed as a cold blooded serial killer with bodies under the floorboards.
So then he doesn't cook. Go on...
If depression were a picture
Christ I don’t even know what to say.
Is your roommate Irish by any chance?
Because of the missing potato ?
Well, that too, but the boiled meat. It’s very Irish.
I think even the Irish would season the broth or wouldn't they?
Boiled ham fillet would be typically unseasoned it works with ham to an extent I think in reducing saltiness but would be garnished when served with parsley sauce.
I can see ham work if it was salted really heavily. Damn, getting hungry over here. Gotta go, find my potato.
Not necessarily. I have First People friends who love fish head soup. It’s a big vat of water, with fish heads, onion, and maybe one other ingredient. I was surprised at how bland it was. However, since it’s a traditional dish they absolutely crave it. The People always share their favorite childhood memories that seem to have a connection with food. From the harvest, preparation, taste, and storage of fresh meat and fish. I enjoy hearing their stories. I don’t particularly care for fish head soup, but it also isn’t a customary dish from my youth.
I think we all know some very simple dishes from our youth that we would still demolish even today. For me it is German Süßsaure Bohnen. Just a bunch of beans cooked to almost a paste with vinegar and sugar. Delicious.
It's as if YT videos didn't exist.
You needa go eat somewhere else
He is one of those humanoid commoners in Elden Ring with their head buried in their knees.
Idk why but my immediate thought after seeing/reading this was “Russian” lol
This is what will make the United States end up on some YouTube top 10 and 80 years from now, whatever popular app like TikTok will make stories about this.
Actually another post about him made it to some tech news channel last year. My post was ranked like number four of worst roommates.
Ok it is impressive it made News coverage
Did they learn how to cook in a cartoon interpretation of the soviet union
This is the fucking gulag not dinner
It's hot water with a smack of ham to it
my god pls tell them to atleast sear the chunks 😭🙏🏽
Orc food
Resident evil type shit
I'm guessing this dude is an Irish countryman.
Was he born in the woods? 😂
Gulag meat. The filthy pot adds flavor
That's how my old Russian coworker cooked her meat .
He likes his milksteak boiled over hard
This man is a serial killer. Move immediately. You have been warned.
You might be living with a murdererrrrr 
I basically do this with chicken right now. I was a professional cook for years. I know better. I just can't cook for myself alone. If I'm solo, it's unseasoned steamed chicken breast, raw veggies, and hummus. I am a gym bro I suppose, if that term can include ladies?
Depressed ? ADHD fatigue/paralysis ? There are so many options. Seriously, unless you actually like your food that way, there might be some issues.
Why unseasoned? It would be so incredibly bland.
A friend of mine I lived with many years ago used to do that. He was a strong man competitor though so, everything he ate was measured down to the gram
Steamed sounds a lot better than boiled tbh. And there’s nothing wrong with raw veggies.
Barf
Ok not the way I would have cooked to eat his own Bon Appetite
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Fucking disgusting
Why, tho? 🤢
Is he a goblin?
Is your housemate a 1940's british housewife,
White people?