In My Humble Opinion Part 3...god should I rename my blog?

Okay, I have a lot of opinions, especially when it comes to food.

Some of these opinions are derived from long experience cooking or reading about food, however, this one was especially developed by my childhood and further expressed by my short period spent at a university residence cafeteria. To sum up my opinion simply: Most people don't know how to properly roast meat.

I grant you, sometimes it's a matter of taste, I can understand how some people would not like their roasts to be bleeding as they carve them up, some people are squeamish about blood, fair enough. What I object to is the hockey puck syndrome I keep seeing, meat should be moist, tender, and flavourful. I object to cooking a steak unto the point where it looks like a hamburger that has been left on the grill all day for a company barbecue. I know people that would consider doing that to a steak to be the highest form of heresy, why then do we so casually accept that people should be allowed to do it to their Sunday roasts? If you're going to say that gravy is supposed to solve the dryness problem then I'd say you should be sent to some kind of culinary re-education centre. Gravy is supposed to be used to increase the flavour found on your plate and hopefully make up for a lack of intense flavour that we find in the most simple of roasts. People should realize that having a tender, moist roast is the ideal that we are all searching for. There are many methods of keeping roasts moist that exist, even when using a dry cooking method such as roasting...but see, method is only half the problem. People need to start picking their meats better, pick more tender cuts and pick meat that has aged a bit if you don't, stop picking the really tough cuts expecting that they'll magically become nice and tender if you cook them in the oven. Marinating doesn't hurt either way, nor does butterflying a roast, there are so many food and cooking websites out there that most people have no real excuse to not find methods of improving their cooking techniques save for a strong degree of laziness.

But really people...Dry roasts? Come on, you really should be able to do better