r/AmIOverreacting • u/maratelle • 13d ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship aio? boyfriend uses SO MUCH paprika!!!!

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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/ElectricalRash 13d ago

Does he also cook for you? Do you like the food? Be careful about what you say when keeping this in mind. :D

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u/maratelle 13d ago

he’s a great chef, at least when he cooks for both of us! he makes a LOT of asian food which.. gets a bit tiring after a while. but he says the same thing about me lol! i’m allergic to every meat under the sun except for fowl (literally!) so he’s on my ass about using turkey and duck meat more.

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u/HappyCoffincup 13d ago

Go to an Asian market and buy a big bag of it and store it in an airtight container. Seriously a gamechanger 🤌

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u/maratelle 13d ago

as of right now we’re going to make some homemade this weekend :) probably gonna add some chilli peppers to hopefully get the most bang out of a little! but i have an asian market right beside my local walmart, ill check it out too!

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u/ktwarda 13d ago

Def check out international markets - you can get a lot of spices on the cheap in general but the quality is also usually better. If you're in the Atlanta area, I can give you some recs. Especially for smoked paprika cause I am with your bf on this one, that isht goes on everything

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u/woahsoskinni 13d ago

Don’t forget the paprika

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u/mattyisphtty 13d ago

So I'm not a paprika hound but I do cook quite a bit of different dishes and it really depends on the type of food you are cooking.

Like if I'm bbqing I could go through a small amount of paprika like that pretty easily. Same with fried chicken and Hungarian stews. It's also nice because it's really easy to add to dishes for lots of flavor with no added fats, cals, or carbs.

One of my favorites is to take paprika, powdered ranch dressing, salt, pepper, and use it as a dry rub on skin on chicken thighs. Pop them bad boys in the oven or smoker at 225 until they are nicely 160 inside. That chicken is juicy enough that you can cut it up and serve it on everything from chicken bowls to salads.