In a previous post, I mentioned that I couldn’t taste the difference between regular milk and “burnt” milk. But I can taste the difference when some foods are burnt, like say toast or bacon. In fact, I prefer it when toast or bacon is more on the burnt side. When I go to restaurants, I’ve noticed that replying “crispy” when asked how I’d like my bacon cooked doesn’t always yield crispy bacon. If the bacon is bendy…I won’t like it. No flexible bacon here thank you.
So I always tell the wait staff to burn the bacon. And I mean, I want to see black on my bacon. So just scrape the left-over bits off the grill and stick them on my plate! Yum!
Anyone else with anosmia like this?
- Jun 5, 11:44 AM
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1 · Heather · Oct 20, 11:06 AM
Oh yeah, I also love burnt popcorn. I buy the minibags now because it’s easier to burn those more uniformly. And the thing I love the most about burnt popcorn is its texture (the popcorn just crumbles).
Burning popcorn is usually the first thing I do when I know I’ll have the house to myself for a few hours.
2 · Jeana · Oct 25, 04:10 PM
you and my husband should watch movies together-he loves burnt popcorn-it looks too ucky for me-I don’t like the charcoal flavor either. actually I don’t care for burnt bacon either-gots to be meaty-not limp-just not crumble apart crispy. I have been conditioned against burnt I think. I had (and sometimes still have)problems with cooking. I am easily distracted and with no sniffer-well it often turns out badly when I cook. I am getting better-I just stay in the kitchen the whole time and WATCH IT cook the whole time. Or read a book next to the stove so I can hear it cooking. Those early years we had a lot of “cajun cookin”. Now we tell the kids-we are havin pancakes for supper…whoops!make that CAJUN pancakes!