i think i have the opposite problem. If something is not made to my EXACT requirements i automatically don't think it's as good. which is something that people hate me for. just no accounting for food snobbing i guess. 

I feel the exact opposite lol! I love when I cook for someone else and they love it. Feels more gratifying that way for me :)

I say this all the time. I really think it's because you didn't have to put in the work. But I still don't understand WHY

Oh I 10000% agree. Even when it doesn't taste good, it tastes better. The fact that I can be sitting on the couch then a meal appears out of NOWHERE -- even if it's technically sub-par -- it is still the most amazing feeling and it's that magic that makes it slap.

I FEEL THIS. For some reason, whenever I cook something, by the time I'm done making it, I am just over it and not even hungry anymore. But when someone else makes my food I am all about it. 

I think I'm just not as good of a cook as other people so when I try to replicate a recipe, it just sucks.

I would say they must be putting a little more of something in that you aren't. Like, if your cheese grits aren't as good as your sister's... just add more cheese. "Add more [delicious ingredient]" is ALWAYS the answer. 

not to be cheesy, but it's the thought that someone took time to make something for u that makes it a total 1000% better - even better if it's a closed one that made it 

Exact ingredients cook it on the same exact temperature for the same exact time and my chicken n rice doesn’t come out as well as my moms. But the same thing happens when she makes me a sandwich. I could use the same amount of lunchmeat cheese and bread with toppings and somehow hers taste better. Also my sister makes these cheese grits and they taste so delicious and I’ll use her exact recipe and it just doesn’t slap The same. I really feel like it’s a psychological thing. This Tastes better because I didn’t have to make it myself. Less risk, more reward

Why does food taste better when someone else makes it