"good"

[Stinky The Clown]

"Use a good dijon mustard"

"Find some good flour"

"Half a cup of a good olive oil"

"Whisk in some good heavy cream"

Does anyone use bad cream? Or bad mustard? Or bad olive oil?

Martha used to say this a lot. Now it seems every teevee cook does it.

Perhaps we need a good dialogue coach.

Or a good editor?

[hippywife]

1. Good observation.

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:rofl:

[auntAgonist]

2. ....

:rofl:


:hi:

[hippywife]

5. Hi, K!

Good to see you wander over here oncst in a while. :hi:

[Warpy]

3. They need to drop the "good" and be specific

"good dijon mustard," not that mass produced stuff they hand each other between Rolls Royces.

"good flour," not that year old self rising crap on the supermarket shelf.

"good olive oil," make it green and not that yellow crap with no taste.

"good heavy cream," well it's all ultra pasteurized but try to find one with an expiration date a month later than the day you buy it.

Specificity is everything, especially in cooking.

[Callalily]

4. Maybe they should just

substitute the word(s) high quality or even just quality for good. Just my humble suggestion.

[hippywife]

6. Yeah, good is

a very relative term. I like your ideas better. :hi:

[Stinky The Clown]

7. See, I think that if .........

..... someone is actually making an actual teevee show about actual cooking that no one would assume to use low quality stuff. If you intend to bother, you'll use the best you can afford.

I know that when I share a recipe, I always assume that and only qualify the ingredient when, it seems to me, that some further definition is needed.

As but an example, there are some things that seem to really benefit from San Marzano tomatoes. If that's the case, i say so. If any canned tomato will do, I'll say "canned tomatoes".

[NashVegas]

8. By Any Chance, Is This TV Show Trying to Reach Out To Those

Who can't imagine why anyone would pay more than $5 for a bottle of olive oil, $1.29 for a bag of flour, and thinks Grey Poupon is "getting fancy?"

If that's the case, "good" is a good way to say "don't cheap out on this and get Kraft grated along with Kroger brand olive oil imported from Texas, or your pesto is going to suck," without using that exact verbage.

[Dover]

9. A 'good' editor, or at least define 'bad'....you know, spell it out.

Husb2Sparky, sounds like a George Carlin routine coming on...

[eleny]

10. I figure it's encouraging people to buy the best they can afford

[MagickMuffin]

11. As Charlie Brown would say "Good Grief"

I just used almost a half gallon of Half & Half. I made several batches of scones with it and they were GOOD.

[sandnsea]

12. hehe, probably me

If it's not rotten, it's "good" in my household. I have such a weird palate that I actually don't like "good" olive oil. lol. I do understand the concept that some are better than others though, as well as flour and dijon. I have absolutely no idea how there could be one cream that is better than another. As far as any of it goes, as long as the food tastes "good" in the end, that's all that matters.

[hvn_nbr_2]

13. They do that so you'll blame yourself for their disastrous recipe that comes out bad

You'll think you fucked up by not using ingredients that were "good" even though the real reason is that they're desperate to make up new recipes so they can sell new books and TV shows, and some of those new and different things just suck.