I’ve not seen the movie, but this is shades of that film about the woman who reinvented a lot of cattle technology, and there’s a scene where they’re trying out her new design for something and they decide the materials and shape are wrong and change them, and then three cattle die, and they’re laughing at her saying her thing doesn’t work, and she looks at what they did to it and calls them out for being idiots
American behaviour
pretty much. And suburban Melbourne mother shit too.
I’m speechless. So they change the recipe and then they blame the recipe? WTF…
He changed it? How did he change it?
He changed it as it was going out the door 🐀🐀
Do people just substitute things that look similar?
I didn’t like egg whites, so I used soap instead. Ew, it tastes like soap!
chef_the_kiss ★☆☆☆☆
I replaced the vanilla extract with balsamic vinegar and it tasted like a disgusting overcooked salad! Why would you let me do that?
somebody wants a mud pie!
Next time maybe mention I shouldn’t use soap in the recipe?
These are the people who are impressed by llm ai.
I had a friend who wanted to make my No Bake cookies for her husband so I showed her the recipe and she said she had everything.
I show up to a game night and she’s making them but substituted the butter for the ‘can’t believe it’s not butter’ stuff. I told her it’s not the same thing and she didn’t believe me.
Instead of cookies she served us bowls of congealed cookies.
She tried blaming me but my friend knew better and called her out for not following the recipe.
This makes me think of this classic about changing recepies…
If carrots have too much sugar for you, sweety, don’t bake a fucking cake.
These people are going to be fucking mad when they learn about braille books. “1/10, couldn’t read it, doesn’t have words in it!”
One of my favourite recipes has a comment in a similar vein and it tickles me every time.
For context the recipe is for Oatmeal Cakes, which are baked in a muffin tray.
The commenter says: “I wouldn’t make these again. Although they are not called a muffin, they do look like one in the picture. They are nothing like a muffin. I only realized after I had all of the ingredients in the bowl that the recipe did not call for any flour.” (2/5 stars)
I’ve replaced the celery in the raw celery recipe with pizza. Why am I not losing weight?
It says 10 calories per serving! What gives!?
I’m doing keto, but with muffins.
In the 60s of last century (IIRC, was before my time) there was a product called “Millical”, a powder to be mixed with water that provided (according to knowledge back then) every nourishment for the day with a total of 1000kcal (hence the name) per “day pack”. Basically a diet powder. Best comment was “It tastes boring, so instead of water, I mix it with cream.”
The weird part about these is sometimes the results are absolutely fire as long as you use a little common sense.
Its possible to bake an amazing chocolate cake by replacing the eggs and oil with mayonaise and a great Vanilla cake by replacing the milk and sugar with melted ice cream.
Replacing eggs and oil with mayonnaise?
Milk and sugar replaced with melted ice cream?
You’re just substituting two things with one thing that is made almost entirely from those two things.
Like yes, eggs and oil are a great replacement for eggs and oil.
It still sounds insane at first until you think about it. “I’m baking a chocolate cake, fetch the mayonaise” Is not normal behavior.
Nor should it be unless it’s the exact same ratio of those ingredients as is in the substitute.
Well, you can always add mayonnaise and an egg to fix the ratio.
I would only do this if I seriously wanted to annoy someone looking over my shoulder while baking.
I kind of want to call the cops
Theres also a great chocolate cake recipe that involves a can of pickled beets I cant wait to try.
B Dylan Hollis on youtube does a lot of vintage recipes, some with seemingly insane substitutions but some of them work out really well. Theres a bunch he does that I still want to try. The disgusting ones are just entertaining.
Whenever I’m thirsty I just drink a liquefied byproduct of hydrogen and oxygen combustion instead of water
Um that’s horse thirst quencher. Plus it’s incompressible.
Sure, but the people with common sense don’t leave these kinds of comments.
It’s like that Marie Callender Pie incident lol
“I grilled this pasta for hours and hours, but it wouldn’t go soft!” (Terry Pratchett, “Opera”)
I didn’t know this meme until now, and this image is my favourite. Can’t stop laughing.
One of the few things I miss on Reddit is a sub called “Ididnthaveeggs” or something like that. Basically a whole sub of the bonkers substitutions people have done. It was always a good read.
1/5 stars
I didn’t have sugar, butter, vanilla, or baking powder, and I substituted the milk with cheddar cheese. Also, I don’t have an oven, so I just used a frying pan on the stove top. It turned into an omelet! Would not recommend this cake recipe.
It might sound totally insane but this is barely an exaggeration with some of the ones you see submitted there (and I mean ones that aren’t jokes).
They will absolutely make tons of substitutions and still rate the recipe based on it. It’s infuriating and should be illegal.
This is outrageous. Where are the armed men who come in to take the substituters away? Where are they? This kind of behavior is never tolerated in Boraqua. You cook like that, they put you in jail. Right away. No trial, no nothing. Bakers? We have a special jail for bakers. You’re leaving out ingredients? Right to jail. You’re editing Michelin Star recipes? Right to jail. Right away. You’re whisking too fast? Jail. Slow? Jail. You’re adding too much butter for cakes, pastries, you right to jail. You undercook flan, believe it or not, jail. You overcook quiche, also jail. Undercook, overcook. You make an appointment with the food delivery and you don’t show up? Believe it or not, jail, right away. We have the best cooks in the world, because of jail.
7/11 with rice
Honestly one of my favorite subs ever. Would be nice if we had that one here
Be the change you want to see in this world.
I tried to make fried eggs but I didn’t have eggs so I replaced them with ice cream.
0/10 hot ice cream soup isn’t fried eggs!!
But the ice cream obviously had no yolk. So I used yellow mustard.
How did I know about that sub! I love hearing about those idiots
How did i not know about that sub? I would love hearing those idiots
It’s better to fail while experimenting like this than to keep rigid to the recipe and produce stale results
Add some random shit to the recipe and see what happens, who knows maybe you will invent next sliced bread
If it fails there’s nothing that a strong drink wouldn’t deal with
Like mayo with strawberries turns out it is as bad as it sounds but you would never know for sure till you tried. Are you just gonna obediently take somebody’s word for it?
Yeah, but if you do crazy replacements on recipies, at least don’t complain to the recepies author, and don’t downrate the recipe because of your own ineptitude.
On the other hand, if you find a substitute that actually works, post it as an alternative.
Why not? Can’t they take a bit of criticism? You post something on the web you must be ready for spiciness.
In the comments, sure. I want to hear about substitutions that work, variations that are interesting, and where common substitutions or adjustments fail. (Does adapting this recipe for high altitude work?) An experimental substitution or modification that didn’t work? I’ll likely find that useless, but whatever.
In the rating, it’s just noise. The number should be a guide to answering the question “if I make this item as written, will it be good?” A poor rating based on not following the directions is misleading, same as a good rating based on making changes to a bad recipe.
The author’s feelings do not factor in.
Experimenting with the intent to discover how different flavors interact is an excellent thing to do.
However, if you are following a recipe and substitute something in it for something you don’t actually know 100% works as a substitute and then blame the person who published the recipe for it not working out so well, you are an asshole.
Who else am I gonna blame? I have such a rule I keep to that it is never my fault.
Unless you successfully prove it. Why would I weaken my position right at the start? Maybe they will make another recipe specifically for you. Nothing to lose
Dissolve gummy worms in monster
You’re the person that replaces cream with mayonnaise aren’t you?
Yes
