This makes me think of this classic about changing recepies...
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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.
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?
Next time maybe mention I shouldn't use soap in the recipe?
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!”
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.
Dissolve gummy worms in monster
You're the person that replaces cream with mayonnaise aren't you?
Yes
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)
If carrots have too much sugar for you, sweety, don't bake a fucking cake.
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 ass mayonnaise and an egg to fix the ratio.
Whenever I'm thirsty I just drink a liquefied byproduct of hydrogen and oxygen combustion instead of water
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Sure, but the people with common sense don't leave these kinds of comments.
I clearly missed something in the last couple weeks- what is with "rule"? Can anyone explain the sudden explosion of this usage?
It is just a meme of !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone. It has only one rule, to post something before you leave. So everybody somehow puts "rule" into the title when they post.
For some reason you're just getting more 196 posts than usually. Or you just started noticing the title more.
Gracias!
Note that there are actually a bunch of rules. "There's just one rule" is itself a meme derived from it's historical antecedents.
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!?
My mother in law.
Who the fuck substitutes mayo for heavy cream?
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.
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