Tasting while you are cooking

DH and I are having a 'discussion' about this.  I am very much a 'taster' - helps me realize what spices/herbs I might want to add or if something has gone horribly wrong.  DH thinks it is gross and hates when I ask him 'just taste it and see if it needs more salt'.  He does it but very grudgingly.  Of course I don't taste it with the cooking spoon!

Ya gotta taste it

I taste everything.  I even use the cooking spoon (unless I'm sick).  Oh, and the cooks/chefs at the restaurants I waitressed at all tasted with their fingers.  Remind him of that next time you eat out 

I totally agree.  I taste for spices just like you said.  Unfortunately, df does not.  And he's made himself extremely sick over putting in the wrong spices/too much spice quite a few times. 

Tasting is a must.  And if it's really good, I'll take a few bites lol! 

Even Gordon Ramsey says, how can you serve something if you don't even know what it tastes like?  A good cook always tastes.  (Yes, I am a GR fan!)
 

My Mom's family owns a restaurant. She grew up in it and my grandparents, in the beginning, did all the cooking themselves...They were ALWAYS sticking their fingers in everything!  My uncle went to the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and he sticks his fingers in everything!  I am told...it's the only TRUE way to taste. 

I taste too - but with a spoon!  I took classes at culinary school and they taught us to use plastic spoons...thrown away after every taste.

You have to taste!!

The only time I don't is when I cook something for my carnivorous bf (I don't eat red meat). Then it's a problem because I hate not knowing if it's right ... but I can't bring myself to taste it. Blech!!

Hmmm yeah those were my thoughts too.  DH is a bit wack about some of these things.  His culture/religion has a lot of 'different' thoughts about hygiene/cooking/cleaning etc.  He even sent me a link to a site that described the reasons behind it (why you shouldn't taste the food).

I will continue to sneakily taste stuff but maybe not ask him to do it as much.   

If he doesnt agree with tasting things while they are cooking, how does he know if the spices are just right?  Or doesnt he care if the spices are right?

I definitely have to taste...and DF asks me to taste the stuff he cooks.  G - you'll just have to be sneaky and accept his non-tasting ways (but you could really mess with his mind by over spicing it one day and saying, 'but you told me not to taste it so I just didn't know!') 

Definitely a taster.   Nothing worse than getting it al lto the table (or sofa!) and realising it needs more this or that.

Hubs and I both taste, we even get our son in on the tasting, with the cooking spoon!!! A little bit of booboo slobber is a great seasoning!! Also, on the serious side, it gets him more interested in food, we set him up on the counter, and let him stir, taste, then when it's time to eat, he's more interested in doing so.

I definately taste... and even with the cooking spoon.  Who cares? It's just he 2 of us.  If there is to be anyone else eating it then I might use another spoon.  DH grew up with a mother who cooked in manor houses and he is quite used to being the taster so it doesn't bother him at all.  In fact, if he doesn't get to sample it, he hmmmpffff's.  Oh, and he has to lick the bowl when I am done baking too!   

Taster... smeller, feeler...looker... thinker....food is and must be dealt with with all the senses... or you might as well as just shove anything down your throat...

Sorry just a wee bit passionate about it!