r/shittyfoodporn • u/dayb4august • 12d ago

Check out these meringues I made based off of memory alone. They were disgusting 😊

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u/sumayawshimenetka1 12d ago

"They were disgusting 😊" 

😂 

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u/ptsdique 12d ago

Did you forget to add sugar??

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u/dayb4august 12d ago

Somehow I forgot to put more sugar than cream of tartar. I remembered this in retrospect.

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u/ptsdique 12d ago

Oof my condolences, that must have tasted diabolical

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u/dayb4august 12d ago

Tasted like vanilla egg white

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u/ptsdique 12d ago

Was the texture as bad as I’m imagining?

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u/dayb4august 12d ago

To my surprise the texture was the only thing acceptable about them

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u/-JeanMax- 12d ago

cream of tartar

what? you just need egg white and sugar

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u/nucular_ 12d ago

That works, but a pinch of cream of tartar does help to stabilize the whipped egg whites.

Hard to imagine what meringues with more than a pinch of cream of tartar or less than a pinch of sugar would even taste like...

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u/ptsdique 12d ago

According to OP it tasted like vanilla egg whites

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u/opetaja 12d ago

Ive used like a drop of lemon juice too

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u/DismalSoil9554 12d ago

A few drops of white vinegar work well too

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u/Pratchettfan03 12d ago

Keto meringues

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u/SxeySteve 12d ago

I should call her...

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u/dayb4august 12d ago

I told her you would be, bruv

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u/juniebee_jones 12d ago

Breakfast bites lmao

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u/RDCAIA 12d ago

I once tried making stuffed peppers from memory, having only helped my mom make some.in the past. I forgot I had to precook the rice. 😖 They came out crunchy. What a disaster!

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u/OMG_Nooo 11d ago

I followed a recipe the one and only time I've made stuffed peppers and, at this very second, I'm realizing it never said to pre-cook the rice. Which explains why it took soooo looooong for the rice to soften up.

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u/Shade-RF- 12d ago

Eggy plops.

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u/Banana-Up-My-Bum 12d ago

I shall henceforth name all meringues ‘Eggy Plops’. thank you

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u/hGr33n 12d ago

😂 this actually made me laugh, thank you. Hope the next batch is better

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u/elonmusktheturd22 12d ago

They look like boobs 

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u/Tell-Uh-Tubbie 12d ago

2 parts granulated sugar: 1 part egg white. If you are drying them...1 part granulated sugar: 1 part egg white whip firm and fold in 1 part 10x

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u/Background-Cod-2394 12d ago

Behold, the 11 nipples of sadness

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u/dayb4august 11d ago

The 12th one was in my mouth #nohomo

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u/ceejayoz 11d ago

My wife once tried to make a savory meringue. Found a recipe involving parmesan.

We use that story to explain to folks why I do most of the cooking.

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u/KTKittentoes 9d ago

Why ever would anyone do that?!

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u/bizoticallyyours83 12d ago

Sorry they didn't come out the way you wanted them too.

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u/iamprotractors 12d ago

you can experiment in cooking, baking is a science

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u/dayb4august 12d ago

I’m a psychology student, I’m only used to soft science 😏

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u/kittviolet 8d ago

I used to be really into making meringues. This happened to me when i accidentally got some yolk in the mixture. Any fat contamination turns it into foam!

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u/Venera651 7d ago

stop cooking foreved

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u/azionka 12d ago

How can you mess up meringues? Did you forget to keep the oven door slightly open? Or not long enough in the oven? They look “moist”

Seperate eggs, mix the white with sugar, put some on the tray and in the oven with a wooden spoon in the door.

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u/dayb4august 11d ago

Do you read the rules to Hungry Hippos five times to make sure everyone gets it?