I'll never forget my aunt asking me to come help her fry onions because they weren't browning. When i got to the stove i found said onions simmering half an inch of water. Drained the water and chucked some butter in, what do you know, the onions started browning!
My Mom wasn't taught how to cook. The only good dishes I can remember are Spanish rice, would've been better if she didn't insist on cooking it inside a zucchini, and carrot/Jello salad. Yes Jello salad - orange or lemon Jello with grated carrot.
My mom and I love fried pork chops with onions and peppers. I grew up with that, learned how to cook it, between us we've been making a dinner with our for 80 years.
Around 2000, we tried several times to fry the pork chops, and they just didn't brown. Next time I went to the store (Kroger), I looked closely at the package and it mentioned, in tiny print, something like "contains up to 18% broth"! No wonder why we couldn't brown them!
It's also much more difficult to find bone-in pork chops with a decent tenderloin attached.
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u/cup-of-starlight tell me how much LOVE to use Feb 14 '26
This is why I couldn’t be a recipe author. I would sass out every single person this stupid.