Do you give the other person the full order of fries, or do you keep it for yourself? This is a moral dilemma you may face

Wow. Putting aside salt/pepper/sweet/sour levels varying widely between cultures, ages, regions, culinary traditions and generations--this self involved bit of unwanted advice whiffs of snobbery . One opinion does not a fact make. Your post reminds me of those insulting old TV Guide “articles”. The Best TV Show You…

So many things I miss about her. Fearless, crazy but in a fun way, put some skill and knowledge behind her posts, was a good teacher and boldly traveled into unexplored culinary corners where others wouldn’t go. Great sense of humor, was not shy about sharing her feelings good or bad. I still make a few of her…

This is perhaps the dumbest, and at the same time, snobbiest take I have ever seen on this site. Do you really think that everyone likes the same level of seasoning? If I was getting breakfast at a restaurant and there was no salt and pepper for my eggs, we’d be having words. Grinding pepper seems to me to be mostly…

There is no such thing as “perfectly seasoned.” Different people may prefer different amounts of salt. Salt at the table allows people who like a little more salt to add it.

I thought it was a way for younger writrs to make themselves feel more important than they are.

It is fantastically bad. 

I pointed out the utter inanity of a similar article last week and another commenter asked me “Who hurt you?”

But the point is true: they’ve been filling space with nonsense articles.

Salt and pepper shakers are useful. That’s why they are popular. If you don’t want to use them, don’t. But this is a really bad take.

This is the most useless article I’ve ever read on this site. Who was clamoring for an article on the downsides of table salt and freakin’ pepper?

I mean, that’s somehow assuming that people would actually agree on “well-seasoned”

Amen. The original editor in chief Kevin Pang did a long thoughtful piece on Medium a few years ago on the original thinking behind the site, and it’s sad to see the site stray. Not that a change is necessarily bad, but what is the unifying theme now? “You’re doing it wrong” articles, Lifehacker-type articles, “I will…

Seems like there are now three standard articles on The Take-Out:

This might be the very worst take from anyone on the masthead here, ever.

Not to mention the fact that most of the takes are pretty bad.

this is a pretty bad take

Yep. It’s their version of click-bait. Instead of saying “An Alternate Way To Peel A Banana” they have to make it sound divisive and aggressive by saying “You’ve Been Peeling Your Bananas Wrong”.

I know this is just the way this whole family of sites are going, but I find it a real bummer the increase of headlines/articles to the effect of “this is the only right way” or “you’re doing it wrong”. It seems unnecessarily divisive and more mean-spirited than the culture/style that got me to read the Takeout in the…

As someone who usually doesn’t have good enough dexterity for most pepper mills, I’ll defend pepper shakers to the death! I typically like more pepper than the average restaurant likes to add, anyway.

Steakhouses are overrated because steak is super easy to prepare if you don’t suck. But this isn’t the case for all fancy restaurants. Frankly, some recipes require annoying amounts of attention or time.

Yeah, neither of the Asian grocers I frequent have a smell issue, but they’re also not displaying whole animals and parts the way the article describes.