Sauce is a excuse for bad cooking, amirite?

Someone has to cook or prepare the sauce as well - some are harder to make than actual food so... What?

by RegularCapital3879 2 days ago

So why don't people sell the sauce with an accompaniment of the main?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Thats your definition of "main". Soup is literally ONLY sauce, but with added bread or potatoes.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Exactly, soup is an excuse for badly cooked potatoes and poorly baked bread

by Anonymous 2 days ago

You answered your own question; because the sauce isn't the main, it IS the accompaniment. This is like saying sell the spring veggies with an accompaniment of the main... then the main isn't the main, the veggies become the main and whatever is with it IS the accompaniment. A sauce is not a dish, it is a sauce, it is an amplifier of the dish or a PART of the dish, not the dish itself

by Imaginary_Spring 2 days ago

No I'm saying what if the sauce was the main part of the main instead of just being mainly a part of it usually

by Anonymous 2 days ago

You're just saying that because you enjoy sauces though

by Anonymous 2 days ago

No, I'm saying that because sauces permeate food in nearly all its forms. It's probably impossible to go idk a week without a sauce in some form or another. That's why I said it's uninformed and not up for debate. Sauces are the foundation of many cultures cuisine, not just chicken wings. Hell mayonnaise is debated to be near mother sauce status, and only left off the list due to a mistranslation

by Worldly-Highway 2 days ago

Mayonnaise is a crime against humanity. If you think peak cuisine is liquified egg juice you are definitely American and are already disqualified from discussing food due to the numerous atrocities your nation have committed against the human digestive system.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Thank you for that saucy source! Potayto, pohtato! Emulsion, revulsion! Let's call the whole thing off!

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Almost everything liquid in a meal can be categorized as a sauce by following OOPs definition. Glace? Lazy Condiments? Lazy Milk over cereal? Lazy (actually lazy tho)

by Anonymous 2 days ago

So OP is correct and you concede. Wings are not boats and they don't floats

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Dude if you just seasoned the pasta it'd taste great !

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Instructions unclear. I just poured nutmeg and salt on a bowl of lasagna pasta.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Just give the man a protein pill and a glass of water and send him on his way.

by MiserableBicycle 2 days ago

This is just wrong. You think every sauce is just covering up bad food?

by bmraz 2 days ago

I'll be sure to let Joel Robuchon know

by Anonymous 2 days ago

This isn't an unpopular opinion, this is just a bad take.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

That is just wrong, sure it can taste good without sauce, but sauce adds something to it, it can add another layer to the food, it's basically the same reason we put season, or condiments on our food, to add more to the taste.

by Reinhold25 2 days ago

Nope. There are saucier chefs for a real good reason. And the ubiquitous saying "the secret is in the sauce".

by Hannaboehm 2 days ago

Some of the best kitchens in the world literally have people who's entire jobs is making sauce. It's just a wrong opinion, sauce complements many things.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Sometimes you just don't feel like a sauce & want the meat to shine alone

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I love how seasoning and sauce somehow serve differernt functions in your eyes OP. Genuinly curious as to how you got here.

by Serious-Ad 2 days ago

Table sauce like ketchup or bbq? Sure, potentially, although by no means always. But actual sauce? Like hollandaise or a proper gravy? Get out of here. Sauce making is just as skillful and integral to the success of a dish as cooking the protein and veg properly.

by marcelodavis 2 days ago

So we should all eat dry food? Dry fries? No ketchup? Burgers are just bread meat and veggies and no sauce? How about chocolate sauce on an ice cream? You have indeed an unpopular opinion.

by Educational-Bird 2 days ago

French cuisine reached Japan during the Meji period (late 1800's) and left a distinct mark on Japanese culinary. I'm sure Japan's historical culinary techniques also influenced the French chefs who travelled there.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I mean Japanese cuisine has its fair share of sauces too and Kaeshi is it's cuisines mother sauce that is used to build upon daughter sauces like ponzu and teriyaki

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Should say heavily influenced. I agree derived is not the right word, food has always existed.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I cook steaks and i feel this way about them. Not wings so much. I feel super insulted when I make this 5 star perfect steak, and then my wife slaps A1 all over it.

by Reynoldsporer 1 day ago

A perfectly seasoned French fry is great. Add ketchup on the side and it's even better Steak cooked with salt, pepper and garlic powder is really good. Add some bordelaise sauce and god damn. Or even garlic butter. Oooof I cook everyday for my family. I season all my food very well. But sauce compliments my dishes

by ana22 1 day ago

Sauce can be an excuse for bland cooking... Raisin' Canes is a perfect example. They just throw some flour on chicken and fry it relying completely on the sugary sauce to make it "taste good" Alfredo sauce on pasta is not to cover for bad cooking.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

I'm not a fan of sauces or seasonings but we are few. They just distract from the real taste A good steak, pink on the inside not bloody, doesn't even need salt

by Key_Breakfast 1 day ago

When people talk about how good a places Sauces are and not how good their wings are you know they make mid wings

by Kerlukekaylah 1 day ago