1.1.18 Pointless Prepositions

There is an absurd obsession with tagging on a preposition when none is required.  The worst offenders are cooks, chefs, narrators and competitors on food programmes.  The television is swamped with food related programmes, and with them comes a hoard of idiots who cannot fry, reduce, cook or separate without flowering their utterances with shit.  Here are examples of the phenomenon.

Cook off the chicken
Reduce down the sauce
Separate out the leaves
Roast off the meat
Mold them up (ref samosas)
Fry off the butter
Braise down the leeks
Balance out the ingredients
Sealing off the meat

This all follows the same path as "return back" and other such ludicrous inputs.  Pleonastic SHIT!

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