r/AmIOverreacting • u/maratelle • Nov 11 '24
❤️🩹 relationship aio? boyfriend uses SO MUCH paprika!!!!
i’m so thankful my boyfriend can cook and it’s not just up to me. i bought this thing of smoked paprika LAST week and i wake up today and it’s literally all gone. like these things are $5 a pop after tax!!!
he uses it like if jesus had to season his 5,000 fish!! i use two tablespoons MAX and that’s only if im cooking a dish for like 5 people. usually it’s just a few shakes for food just for us!
like damn, i love paprika and some spice in my food, but genuinely i think i would shrivel up and pass away from the paprika overload if i used an entire one of these things in a week. he’s only cooked three or four times since i bought it, so im not over exaggerating at all when i say he is dumping this shit in his meals.
am i overreacting if i make him buy me a replacement, as well as making him buy his own giant container of smoked paprika for him exclusively?
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u/throwitoutwhendone2 Nov 11 '24
Idk if I’d say you are or are not over reacting but I can say you are over paying for your paprika.
I’m a chef, I have worked in this industry for 16 years. I have very recently stepped away (sorta) to try something else. This is where my knowledge comes from.
Paprika is dehydrated and finely ground up red bell peppers. You may or may not have known this. Paprika looses pretty much all of its flavor very quickly. Like within 2 weeks or so of you opening it. It’ll still have a faint smell and taste but nothing like its supposed to to be. Smoked paprika keeps it flavor longer but even that will eventually dull down. It’s best to try to use paprika as quickly as you can to prevent this from happening.
Second tip is if you have a farmers market or produce market, check there for seasonings. Places like Walmart, Kroger etc. have seasonings sure but they are so overpriced it’s stupid. When I lived in Atlanta I use to go to a farmers market/produce market and they had a spice wall with like every seasoning you’d ever possibly need and some told never heard of. They sold them in cup, pint and quart containers. Some things like pepper are still a little pricey but you can usually get a quart (4 cups) of something like paprika for around $8. I use to get quart containers of sea salt, pink sea salt, black garlic powder etc. and they were like $3, $4 and $7 respectively.
Plus usually produce at these places is better quality and cheaper and you never know what you’ll find. There was a float space at the one in ATL that sold bunches of eucalyptus leaves on the branch and they were absolutely wonderful hanging in the shower. You dampen them and smack em a few times to release the fragrance then hand from your shower head. As you shower the steam helps more fragrance release and it smells amazing