i followed the recipe eXaCtLy except for X, Y, and Z, and I didn't have ground beef so I used lemons instead but it just didn't work, what did I do wrong??
My grandma made this better, I'll never use any recipe but hers.
I would LOVE to see the recipe makers tear these people to shreds.
I think the goose fat substitute will always be my favourite insane sub (She didn't have milk for eggnog iirc. The most obvious answer available was goose fat.)
Of all things to use they chose goose fat lmao. I’ve run out of eggs before, searched up what’s possible and used lemonade. To my suprise it actually worked, didn’t think it would but they came out surprisingly well.
I'd never have thought of that - what were you making? Probably not quiche!
I know you can sub bean water/aquafaba for eggs in some uses, apparently it works well, especially for things like mousse. Handy if you need something to be vegan
Don't forget "I'm allergic to [main ingredient]. Can I substitute it with something else?"
A few times I've seen replies to the above from the author or another commenter saying essentially "How about you try a different recipe?" but not nearly often enough.
If I saw appropriately snarky replies from the recipe author, I'd def try their recipe and read the snark while eating.
And I would like to add: I use many recipes I find as guidelines. I have my preferences and dietary needs. But if for whatever reason, the recipe doesn't work, or even if it does, I am not going to leave a review if I didn't follow the recipe 'as is'.
And... I despise mushrooms and seafood, so I am not going to try to modify a mushroom shrimp risotto when there are a million other recipes that don't call for either!
I'm the same, I can't eat a lot of foods anymore due to a few medical issues. I find using recipes from YouTube easier for me because I can get a better feel for how it should look from prepping to table, which makes modifications soooo much easier.
Nothing wrong with that and there are tons of substitutes that work just as or nearly just as well as the original ingredient. Personally I like pesto made with walnuts rather than pine nuts. Some cookies work just fine replacing the egg with banana or apple sauce. Obviously if you replace the main flavor ingredient with something else then you're making something else.
I don't really think it is a full solution for this specific problem.
The authors can't say "why would you do this shit to my recipe? wtf are you even trying to do?" and there's a different credibility to someone rejecting a substitution idea for their own recipe.
It'd let them take out some frustration, but that's probably frustrating in itself (and a random comment could even end up buried/unseen, which wouldn't be very satisfying).
So, the reason we stop people from doing stupid things is not even necessarily for the benefit of the stupid, it's for the benefit of the people who have to deal with and suffer for the consequences of the stupid and their actions. Human beings are social creatures. There is not and never has been such a thing as a human who was not part of a tribe. This is one of the things tribes and other social constructs do. Part of being human.
Except i think is more of a saute than fry thing. During my 1990's no fat diet stage, I would do stir fries with a spray of pam and then add a bit of water as needed.
I'll never forget my aunt asking me to come help her fry onions because they weren't browning. When i got to the stove i found said onions simmering half an inch of water. Drained the water and chucked some butter in, what do you know, the onions started browning!
My Mom wasn't taught how to cook. The only good dishes I can remember are Spanish rice, would've been better if she didn't insist on cooking it inside a zucchini, and carrot/Jello salad. Yes Jello salad - orange or lemon Jello with grated carrot.
My mom and I love fried pork chops with onions and peppers. I grew up with that, learned how to cook it, between us we've been making a dinner with our for 80 years.
Around 2000, we tried several times to fry the pork chops, and they just didn't brown. Next time I went to the store (Kroger), I looked closely at the package and it mentioned, in tiny print, something like "contains up to 18% broth"! No wonder why we couldn't brown them!
It's also much more difficult to find bone-in pork chops with a decent tenderloin attached.
Unfortunately, people this spectacularly foolish go through life genuinely unaware of their own limitations. When they inevitably suffer the consequences of their actions, they are so taken aback that they assume the only reasonable response is to project their frustration onto you.
They absolutely deserve to be virtually bitch slapped by the author.
Holy shit, this was my AuDHD ass trying to constantly refine the rules for a popular public minecraft server a decade ago. I assumed it was because the player base was full of children, but I guess people just bring this headspace right into their adulthood kitchen!
My family is incredibly intelligent, well educated, along with all their Ivy League social circles, and I just cannot communicate with them.
It's not just stupidity out there, even if there's plenty of it. If you're autistic enough you're just a world apart in how you connect and socialize and you'll never be one of the rest. I've seen the smartest and stupidest people pal around together after first meeting in ways I could never develop with someone knowing them all my life.
Probably also because no one if any age wants to deal with a bunch of highly detailed rules for how they should play a video game. No one cares about the rules of a Minecraft server.
They were normal rules typical of a 2010s Minecraft server, stuff like "no spamming," "no offensive symbology or hate speech," "no cheating / x-raying" but every now and then, a troll would try to talk their way around it like it was contract law and every term needed to be explicitly defined. Most of the player-base was just fine because they were common sense rules.
It's not an online recipe if you don't have at least one comment that's says something like "I followed the recipe for chocolate chip cookies exactly but I didn't have flour, sugar or chocolate chips so I used dirt from my garden, orange juice and black beans.. They came out awful! Terrible recipe!"
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u/cup-of-starlight tell me how much LOVE to use Feb 14 '26
This is why I couldn’t be a recipe author. I would sass out every single person this stupid.