I’m speechless. So they change the recipe and then they blame the recipe? WTF…
Do people just substitute things that look similar?
I didn’t like egg whites, so I used soap instead. Ew, it tastes like soap!
Next time maybe mention I shouldn’t use soap in the recipe?
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?
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.
These are the people who are impressed by llm ai.
This makes me think of this classic about changing recepies…
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!”
If carrots have too much sugar for you, sweety, don’t bake a fucking cake.
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)
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.
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
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.
I would only do this if I seriously wanted to annoy someone looking over my shoulder while baking.
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 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.
I’ve replaced the celery in the raw celery recipe with pizza. Why am I not losing weight?
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.”
I’m doing keto, but with muffins.
It says 10 calories per serving! What gives!?
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.
Who the fuck substitutes mayo for heavy cream?
Stupid fucks do.
Hey, they’re both thick and white. And eggs are dairy too!
Hey, they’re both thick and white
If that’s the bar, we should be glad it was mayonnaise!
Morons, that don’t think at all.
There’s a sub for this on the other site, called “Didn’tHaveEggs”. It’s funny as.
Damn I must’ve missed out on that one on other site
funny as what
Funny as fuck. The last word is implied.
“as” is short for “as shit” it’s like “af” but instead it’s “as”
Where I’m from we say “funny as” missing off the “fuck”.
I’ve heard Kiwis say “sweet as” to mean something similar to “it’s cool”-- can’t remember if there were other adjectives instead of sweet but I think so.
I know Brits that say that too, sometimes including the F word, sometimes not.
Either way we’re having a good time.
I must’ve done the fucking wrong if it’s supposed to be funny.
Different people find different things funny?
as
They forgot the *.
It’s funny as <wildcard>, meaning funny as anything!
Thank you. It was one of my favorite subs but I couldn’t remember the name.
Carrots have way too much sugar?? To go in a cake?? Wut
What’s wrong honey? You haven’t finished your kale cake.
Kace
Kake, by KDE
Someone probably tried to install Linux on a cake
Kacke - which is coincidentally a German word that describes the look and taste of said cake very well.
Cachu (pron same as above), a welsh word that is even more appropriate
In my grandparents’ region (south-east of France), there’s a traditional pie made with leafy greens: tourte de blettes, that is to say “chard pie”.
My grandmother calls it tourte d’herbes (“herb pie”), it’s very good, there’s definitely sugar in it!
