How would you tell someone that their cooking is bad?

[Berties]

I had attended our annual big family dinner on Saturday evening.
After grace & blessings for the food were said, then everyone went up to the table to get a plate of food. It was served buffet-style. One such item that I had on my plate was a fairly large piece of rib. When I bit into it, right away, I tasted the charcoal lighter fluid!! Plus the meat was burnt up on the outside, and not done at the bone!!! I quickly put it down and didn't finish it!!

One of my worst pet peeves is not only BBQ that tastes like lighter fluid, but meat that is overcooked on the outside & not done at the bone!!! Burnt up & ain't done!!!!

Maybe buy him a charcoal lighter like I have it's flask with holes at the base you light the charcoal with paper and kindling
May be they would get the hint

 

[GadgetGuy]

Well, as a rule, I don't eat everyone's cooking, and when you attend a family dinner, it means that if you eat there, you are going to eat other peoples' cooking, so you have no choice if you are hungry, and I was because I hardly ate all that day.