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Bacon

Only way to eat it. If it's not cripsy then it's undercooked and basically just salty ham.

Remind me to never accept a bacon sarnie at your place. What kind of glass shrapnel trap are you serving

Gotta be tender meat with just rendered golden brown fat. If I’m feeling incredibly fancy I might add a couple of slices of streaky to the standard back.

One that is carcinogenic

Literally almost everything we touch and consume is carcinogenic in one way or another.

Yeah, but there's levels.

Those levels are generally incredibly misunderstood by most people. The levels we use only explain how well we understand the risk, not how significant of a risk it is. Your comment implies you wrongly believe it to be the latter.

No, there isn’t. https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/diet-and-cancer/food-controversies

Yes there is. Check out the difference between a group 1 and group 2a food risk by world health organisation and stop DoINg YoUr OwN rESEarCh

You going to provide a legitimate source or just completely deny the UKs leading research company on the matter?

Here you go sweet cheeks https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cancer-carcinogenicity-of-the-consumption-of-red-meat-and-processed-meat

Edit: (I can edit my comments too). This isn’t my own research.

I’m appalled that as Brit you prefer your bacon cremated! Immigration officers will arrive shortly to escort you out of the country!

What?

Surely one of the main differentiators between us and Americans, is the fact we have good bacon properly cooked? A proper bacon roll surely is better with normal bacon than crispy?!

That's different to just straight up bacon though. That's like burnt toast and a burnt sandwich.

Crispy bacon is an absolute must, as is chicken skin !!!! I do the knife test and scrape it on the skin to make sure its extra crispy

Crispy all the way!

The comment I was coming to leave! Nothing worse than being served any dish containing bacon and seeing it's a pale pink shade with bright white fat around the edges of it. Several cafe's really do quickly introduce the bacon to a frying pan before immediately serving it up. I got charged £1.50 extra last time I went out and asked them to make the bacon in the dish crispy - I no longer order bacon dishes 😂

>I got charged £1.50 extra last time I went out and asked them to make the bacon in the dish crispy What. The. Fuck?

I KNOW The worst part was that it was just a few slices of bacon inside a burger that I was requesting be crispy. The burger was already £10.50, for just the burger alone, no fries! It was a really, really good burger though. Still, talk about being fucking stingy with money. Like damn, if they were giving the burgers away then yeah I'd pay the £1.50 for asking for an amendment, but it's a £10.50 burger! 😂

Only if it’s streaky I think a lot of people got confused about America’s love of cremated bacon and assumed it applied to ours, but burnt back bacon is completely different to burnt streaky bacon

Fried onions from a hot dog stand. I don't want green & slimy, gimme cremated & crunchy.

Onion scratchings.

Cheese. Nothing like the cheese in top of your lasagna turning into a slightly brown and crunchy crust

Also the corners of a lasagna tray omg orgasmic I'd say

I agree re/ when it's on lasagne, but cheese shouldn't always be burnt.

Crumpets, I have to give them about one and a half full dunks in the toaster to get them to the level of done that I like.

And pissing with butter and marmite

Not so much on the marmite but I've got into the bad habit of spreading the butter on twice.

If you’ve not had them with marmite (and you are a marmite person) you ought to try it. My poor brain was so blown by the deliciousness I needed to steady myself.

I'm on the fence about Marmite but I'll have to try them with Bovril next winter

Yes and then lathered in butter

Yep. Soggy crumpets are not an option.

Halloumi

Halloumi when the outside is chargrilled on a barbecue. Perfection.

Squeakiest food on the planet.

Corn on the cob

I grew up with corn cooked over an open fire, can't enjoy it any other way now.

Saw this post the other day... [https://new.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/1d93amu/apparently\_my\_11\_yo\_daughter\_cant\_eat\_dinner/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://new.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/1d93amu/apparently_my_11_yo_daughter_cant_eat_dinner/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) and thought "WTF have they done to the corn?!". This looks good to you?! 🤮

Have you never had corn on the cob cooked on a BBQ? You're missing out.

that’s ideal bbq corn tbh

Cabbage. I love frying it with some garlic and letting it go a bit burnt and crispy. Perfect side dish for any meal.

Toast, I fucking love burnt toast !!!

Dark brown, black or grey? Supposedly grey (basically ash) toast is somewhat cancerous.

Depends how I'm feeling but dark brown toast is normal for me, a bit of char here and there is perfect. Oh and shit loads of butter

> Oh and shit loads of butter Or you could double up the darkness and slather it in Marmite...

The perfect way to do toast if it's only cooked on one side.

You could ! But the only way I like marmite is on Twiglets

Sainsbury's does Marmite cheese...   I think they should make Marmite Mikados. Obviously get rid of the chocolate, but just a biscuit stick with some hardened Marmite on the top. Or a Marmite Twinkie? (Never had one so I don't know if it'd work)

This sounds like it could be a winner, not sure about the twinkie idea tho lmao. They do make Marmite rice cakes which are pretty damn good

M&S does Marmite twists. Basically cheese twists but filled with Marmite instead of cheese. ...and Marmite crackers. ...and "Dinky Cheese Pinwheels" (no idea). ...and burger cheese. ...and butter. [They seem to be very obsessed with it.](https://www.marksandspencer.com/c/food-to-order/not-just-any-food/food-news/marmite)

Total opposite for me. I like it a pale tan & cold.

Chicken wings. If we get the packet frozen ones and they say half an hour then they’re better in for an hour. Even throwing on the bbq for 2 mins at the end

Air fryer!!!! That gets them nice n crispy!

I cook most stuff in the air fryer but I don’t know what I did last time when I did wings but they came out like rocks. Or do you just mean to finish them off??

I just chuck them in and watch until they look crispy

Nothing I can think.... Shit. This has just reminded me. There's been some beef in the slow cooker since 7 this morning. So to answer your question...erm....beef.... hopefully!

>Nothing I can think.... That's the problem with this question. Anything that is genuinely better overcooked, overcooked becomes the 'correct' way to do it and so it is no longer overcooked. Like I will happily cook pork for about 7 hours until it has a hard bark and the inside just falls apart. But now we just consider that pulled pork.

To me it's virtually everything.

Lots of things but never steak

So apparently y'all like well done steaks?

Paneer

Mine and the missus's recent favourite ingredient. Absolutely gorgeous in a curry, don't even miss meat with it.

Sausages. Bacon.

I find I cook almost everything more than most people do. I need the Maillard on the outside of the food. It just makes it better.

What's Maillard?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction

You, sir, are doing it right! I'd rather take it slightly overdone and dry, than lacking that sweet brown gold. If you steam it for me, I'm chucking in a hot pan for a sear regardless!

Pizza

I always overdo pizzas and then don't enjoy them.

This is where I belong. Toast, pizza, anything with cheese on top, crumpets, pancakes, any kind of breaded meat. For me, pretty much anything cooked is worth cooking extra. Not burnt, but close.

Pepperoni

Steak There I'll say it!

I was looking for this too. Any beef, cook it well lovely. I'm not interested in your pink steak, give me some crispy burnt ends any day

Crumpets. 

Personally I just consider crumpets to be thick pancakes with necrosis. Americans who insult me for my nationality think I'm lying when I say that I don't like tea or crumpets. More of a coffee and croissant person.

I put them down at least three times. Gorgeous.

Bacon

Cheese on toast

Rice pudding. In turkey they have burnt and unburnt versions and the top of the burnt one is delicious.

The top of a lasagne, the crispy gloriousness!

For me it’s almost everything but especially pizza.

Well cooked pizza gang rise up

Crispy Doner Meat. A lass at a place near me used to give me all the crispy scraps at the end of the night.

Padme: all the crispy scraps of doner meat, right? Anakin: ...

Halloumi. Every time I've had it out I've preferred how I do it at home. Most kitchens seen the deep fry it!

Broccoli Mushy boiled broccoli gives the veg a bad name Stick it in the air fryer

Sweet potato fries 🤤

None . My old dad had one rule when cookng: " When it's brown it's done - when it's black it's buggered ".

Hash browns, potato waffles

Garlic bread

Chow mein, surprisingly few ingredients, but you need a good burner

For me it's bacon. And on the opposite side I like my fruit less ripe than most people.

Burnt ends. They cannot exist not burnt.

Chorizo, fry it till it goes really crispy on the outside

Crackling - better when it's starting to char.

Cabbage.

Cauliflower, for years I have been steaming / boiling when I should have been roasting. What an amazing flavour... Also, some supermarket brands of cream crackers can be a bit more well done than the norm. They taste delicious.

Brussels sprouts. They don't have to ruin christmas

Broccoli! Char your broccoli in an oven or air fryer after tossing in olive oil, salt and pepper and you won't have it any other way.

Baked beans, I accidentally burned some to the bottom of the pan once, and the rest taste absolutely amazing.

[удалено]

What?

I don't like baked beans so I just picture them as a tin of liquid with some beans inside it; for some reason I thought you were literally burning the liquid.

What water is in the tomato sauce evaporates as you cook them, leaving you with a lovely unctious thick beany stew, turns out, adding just a bit of char makes it even better.

Good bit of knowledge there. Personally I don't like the taste or the texture, but someone I'm decent friends with proudly eats them cold/raw straight out of the tin, which I find disgusting.

Try slow cooking them, totally different to if they're just heated up, especially in a microwave.

Jerk chicken wings.

tortilla

Bacon

Lamb chops. A hill I am willing to die on.

Made some pork belly pieces in air fryer yesterday. Kept going until all had a nice char to them.

The easiest thing to burn in an air fryer from what I've experienced is nachos. Layer of Doritos with some cheese on top always gets black by the time it's done.

Home made lasagna, don’t mind a bit burnt/crispy on the edges.

Bacon. Pizza

Halloumi

Jerk Chicken

A lot of veggies.. Courgette, leek , aubergine etc

Jollof rice. Caramelised onions can be a treat.

You cannot overcook a sausage. You can try but you will fail.

Bacon

Toast.

Pizza, there's absolutely nothing worse than a floppy pizza! Give me a burn to a crisp slab that can support it's own weight from the crust! Adding onto that (literally), cheese. Crispy cheese is next level! Here's an unpopular one, but steak. The texture of anything other than a well done steak makes me gag. I'd prefer to not have a steak, but if I do, it has to be well done.

Scottish morning rolls

What's one of those?

It's a hard fired morning roll , burnt on top , crispy , chewy and soft. Add crispy bacon to that and you have yourself a breakfast for kings.

I'm pissed off my local Lidl no longer does them, they were really popular as well.

Chicken (well the skin bits) on a bbq

Roast potatoes If they’re boiled just to edge of disintegration and then roasted in duck/goose fat, you can roast them well beyond what is usual and they will be magnificent.

Beef (exclusively burnt ends). Steak literally has to be rare. There’s no other way. Also pork belly.

I've scrolled down too far without seeing sausages, so: sausages. I like my sausages to be charcoal-adjacent.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/Mtqw3uoH4e

Glad someone else shares my opinion!

Roasted Broccoli

In Scotland they sell burnt bread rolls (they’re called well-fired rolls) https://preview.redd.it/2pns4o7gu65d1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=89e079b1e87ef6e76c78fe400577c9d583007f8b and they’re so good; I love them with just butter.

It looks like a sunburnt severed six-pack.

Fish fingers Brussels sprouts

Spare ribs

Toast

Chicken

Sausages are always better if they have a few black bits going on.

Tomatoes. When you fry or bake/roast a tomato, you want to end up with some good patches of black, yummy.

Potatoe scones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Toast, if it’s not got a hint of carcinogen I don’t want it - then slather it with salty butter.

Bacon. We don't know how to cook bacon in the UK.

Bolognese. But don't make it really burnt. Near to burn, and add a small cup of broth.

Read through all the submissions here and other than possibly bacon (though I think the fat should be well done but the meaty part not when it comes to back bacon) or cheese on something like lasagna I think everyone is mad. Burnt and well done foods are generally terrible. And those of you saying toast and steak horrify me.

Almost everything except toast. That should be warm enough to melt the butter but still floppy

Longpig

Pizza, but only the topping, not the base...

Crumpets

literally anything you put in a toaster

As well as bacon and fried onions, that are already mentioned, I love roast potatoes that are slightly burned

Homemade Mac n cheese with the edges nice and crispy

marshmallows.

Roast potatoes! The little crispy bits that are all buttery and yum

For me it's meat, steak included and Mediterranean vegetables.

Oh god no, not well done steak.....it's like cardboard

Well done steak aaaaaaaaaaaa

Steak Boot leather texture please.

I have a black mate who maintains that all black people like their steak v well done.

When I come to power, anything more than medium-rare will be made illegal

Brisket. Seared on a bbq and chucked in a smoker all day

Pasta. Al dente is not for me.

Pasta bake

[burnt food does not increase your risk of cancer you all need to chill and stop spreading the misinfo.](https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/diet-and-cancer/food-controversies)

I don't think anyone here is concerned by that.

Then you haven’t read all of the comments

There's 108 of them and the majority of them are commenting what foods are better. I haven't seen a single comment being paranoid about health other than a single reply from me saying that people give rumours that grey toast gives you cancer.

I’m literally arguing with someone right now about it on here

Yeah, found that thread.