In the defence of this person, some recipes for desserts offer applesauce as a replacement for oil as a healthier option, like the mug cake I made literally 20 mins ago. This might be one of those
this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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Are we talking about avocado or olive oil here? If that’s the case, the oil is much healthier than anything else in the cake, with exception of water.
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I've heard about replacing eggs with applesauce to turn a baking recipe vegan. But the oil?
Also, if you don't want an unholy amalgamation of way too much fat and sugar, why even go for brownies?
Blood can also be used as a substitute in baking. Pretty sure it's in lieu of eggs. Not curious enough to ruin a perfectly good batch of brownies though :(
I love that your concern is the integrity of the brownies, not the sourcing of the blood.
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That was a "fine enough" substitute before commercial egg replacers got as good and commonplace as they are now. I'll still do it for some recipes as I like the added apple flavor and moisture, but I generally use Ener-G Egg Replacer for replacing eggs in a dough mix and maple syrup for egg washes when vegan baking these days.
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Applesauce is a totally acceptable replacement for oil right?
Absolutely. 1:1 swap even so it’s odd that their dish failed.
Supposedly, but I assume you have to be familiar with baking with applesauce, and not just read somewhere that apple sauce can replace "oil, butter, or eggs" and just shoot for the moon.
Wait, really? I was joking, that seems like it would not do any of the things that something like oil or butter would do when baking something.
It can work pretty well, usually in baked good that have a high moisture content like banana bread. It is certainly not a 1/1 substitute. Best practice is to follow a known recipe, or have played around enough to know what changing fat, sugar, water, levels will do. Just changing something like sugar level will change not just sweetness, but gluten formation, browning, moisture retention. It can be complex.
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The other place had something like r' I didn't have any eggs' that was all people giving 1 star reviews to recipes where they substituted Triceratops horn for chicken breast, and it didn't work well.
That sub was hilarious! So many weird substitutions and people having no idea what the ingredients do for the final result. I actually learned a lot about cooking from that sub.
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Satire? I feel like this has to be satire.
this is the state of culinary education in most of the western world, people can't cook for shit and will somehow burn spaghetti in a pot of water.
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Have you met people?
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This isn't as crazy as it seems. In some bread and cake recipes, you can easily replace some of the oil with applesauce and have a successful bake. I've done this with muffins and banana bread to great success.
They're still being foolish as you need some fat for most bakes to work and using apple sauce introduces more fiber, protein and water instead of fat, but it's not a totally baseless substitution.
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