Do people just substitute things that look similar?
I didn't like egg whites, so I used soap instead. Ew, it tastes like soap!
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Do people just substitute things that look similar?
I didn't like egg whites, so I used soap instead. Ew, it tastes like soap!
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?
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 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 [email protected]. 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.
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.
Sure, but the people with common sense don't leave these kinds of comments.
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 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.