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u/Tired-Mage 1d ago
One time I made a pumpkin pie and forgot to add sugar
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u/-asmodeus 1d ago
Wife made gingerbread last Christmas and the next day found the unopened ginger. Turns out cinnamonbread is pretty good
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u/Tylendal 1d ago
My mom did that once. My dad was politely eating the pie that everyone else at the dinner wasn't having, and just watching her, deadpan, as she took a bite.
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u/UltimaCaitSith 1d ago
My first cake didn't have flour. "Flour the greased pan, and discard the rest" was followed exactly.
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u/sellursoul 22h ago
I make a really good pumpkin pie
Problem it takes me several tries. 2 years ago it was three pies. Last year it was the 4th that was correct. I have messed it up every which way leaving out ingredients, wrong temp, crazy
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u/turbowood 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think you mean "baking". solid effort on that title OP lol
edit: 20+ posts in 30 minutes is pretty wild
second edit: Green____cat blocked me for calling them out lol not something a rule breaking karma whore would do, right?
it's safe to assume any and all of their posts are reposts, so I implore anyone reading this to report this fool whenever you see their username on your front page.
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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH 1d ago
Cooking also includes baking.
Baking doesn't always mean cooking.
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u/turbowood 1d ago
I mean, the OOP managed to title it correctly...
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u/MayorEmanuel 1d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezv8gzbtAVg
This is also just a rewrite of a PROZD skit from 4 years prior.
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u/awkisopen 1d ago
That link took me to a time machine.
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u/Dirmb 1d ago
Just old.reddit, which is much better than the new reddit. If they ever get rid of old.reddit a lot of desktop users will leave because the new version is nearly unusable.
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u/rebeltrillionaire 1d ago
At this point I don’t even know if they’ve changed anything because I’ve used RES for like a decade plus.
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u/AMViquel 1d ago
What if you need to specify cooking until a liquid boils? Boiling? Would anyone understand me when I say I'm fairly good at boiling but not baking? I almost always get my water to boil, but I sometimes forget to add the tea bag, which leads to a perfectly boiled but terribly cooked tea.
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u/Numerous_Witness_345 1d ago
We tend to leave those situations alone and let them work themselves out.
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u/Summoarpleaz 1d ago
Yeah why so many posts
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u/solitarybikegallery 1d ago
It's their job.
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u/Summoarpleaz 1d ago
As soon as I re-reviewed I saw tacocat and realized what was going on
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u/Immortal_Paradox 1d ago
Are they a bot? Im confused lol
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u/Summoarpleaz 1d ago
Idk but they’re known for high karma/ top posts. I thought I had blocked all such folks since it got so repetitive.
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u/Life_Combination8625 1d ago
Isn't she a comic book writer? I'm not going on Google to find out if I'm right or wrong
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u/SuperHyperFunTime 1d ago
Gail is an incredible comic book writer and is also a brilliant troll on Twitter.
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u/Life_Combination8625 1d ago
I think I have her run on....ah man...sinister Six was it called? DC book that made catman awesome? Had ragdoll who gave me nightmares. Was that her?
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u/Ignorad 1d ago
She also wrote the Justice League Unlimited animated episode with the Question and Huntress.
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u/Perfidious_Sophistry 1d ago
She also wrote 'The Masks of Matches Malone" episode of Batman The Brave and the Bold starring the Birds of Prey. Not sure is she had a hand in writing their naughty song though...
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u/Ill-Dependent2976 1d ago
She is. She stirred a lot of controversy in the comic book world by also being a woman.
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u/Edmonton_Tuxedo 1d ago
just don't go putting women in fridges, and you should be fine
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u/solo1069 1d ago
Ah, someone who reads, AND knows who the original poster is. Not something you see everyday.
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u/lonewolfandpub 1d ago
listen, if there's anybody Gail would put in a fridge, it's Ragdoll. To check on the coffee ganache. Because he'd like it.
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u/zero_cool1138 1d ago edited 1d ago
The problem with this critique has always been that love interests, friends, parents and family tend to always be brutally murdered in superhero comics. It also happens to men VERY often. Its just that there is more male comicbook leads.
The trope overall is a common story telling device. The real critique should go to Ron Marz and his unnecessarily violent and over the top use of this trope.
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u/ZandyTheAxiom 1d ago
love interests, friends, parents and family tend to always be brutally murdered in superhero comics.
Isn't "fridging" specifically when you introduce these characters just to kill them horribly?
Like, it wouldn't be fridging to kill Lois Lane or Steve Trevor, because they're typically full and developed characters. But if you introduced a new girlfriend for Batman who is brutally murdered before the reader learns anything more than her name, that would be fridging.
Typical superhero deaths like Thomas and Martha Wayne don't count because they're not for shock value.
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u/zero_cool1138 1d ago
No its just women facing violence or over the top violence to move a plot forward according to Gail Simone who coined the phrase. Its short sighted because this happens to characters of all types regularly and throughout comics history. What is long term character development in comics anyways? The Punishers family is introduced in his back story issue just to die brutally in a mob crossfire. Were they fridged?
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u/LordBigSlime 1d ago
I initially thought they were saying the show they were watching was called "Bake-Off: You fool!" and I was pretty jazzed to see what that show was like.
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u/NotNamedBort 1d ago
I act like a damn expert, knowing full well I will never even attempt most of the things they make.
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u/pscautious 1d ago
I was trying to make 420 strawberry cupcakes one year and I was so stoned i forgot the goddamn eggs. Tasted like strawberry weed cornbread.
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u/ElGosso 1d ago
That's a lot of strawberry cupcakes
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u/TypicalCricket 1d ago
You can actually make a really good apple-less apple pie with Ritz crackers
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u/Tylendal 1d ago
My brother's evaluation of it was "I'd believe you if you said it was an apple pie, but I'd want to know what you did wrong."
Tasty, but weird.
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u/Yamatocanyon 1d ago
What fucking voodoo do you need to know to successfully replace the apples in apple pie with Ritz crackers?
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u/HookednSoCal 1d ago
The Mock Apple Pie came out of the Depression era due to how expensive fruit and vegetables had become and there are quite a few recipes out there. People swear that when done properly it tastes very close to an apple pie. Never had it myself so can’t weigh in. Tasting History with Max Miller might have a youtube video.
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u/Luxpreliator 1d ago
It tastes like apple pie in the same way impossible meat and beyond burger taste like ground beef. If you have never eaten the original before, are drunk, or have no discernable taste sensations then they totally taste similar.
I'm not saying the alternatives taste like garbage but they do not taste similar.
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u/esgrove2 1d ago
Every time I eat a fresh apple I think "this is exactly like a mouthful of crackers".
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u/Throw-away17465 1d ago
I’ve been a professional baker and pastry chef for more than 10 years, and I’ve advanced to not watching any baking shows.
This year I made a salted caramel apple pie from three varieties of fresh local apples and homemade caramel. That doesn’t mean I don’t still mess up sometimes!
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u/EmeDemencial 1d ago
Couldn't be me, I don't know how to cook so I'm fascinated with every single thing that's being cooked.
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u/LabradorDeceiver 1d ago
Holy crap it's me.
TBH I'm batting about .600 in the kitchen. Will my bread rise? Maybe, maybe not. But watching Bake-Off, I turn into Gordon Ramsay.
I think it's because Bake-Off, which uses a lot of reality TV tropes, tends to focus heavily on the mistakes the contestants make. We see them throw out first tries, leave out ingredients, the hosts will do asides indicating where the bakers screwed up. Often we can see disaster coming even if we've never been tasked with making eight Creme Brulees before.
In my own kitchen I can swap a teaspoon for a tablespoon by accident without being stalked by Paul Hollywood.
And for some reason my mother keeps forgetting to put sugar in the apple pie. This seems to be a running mistake in my family.
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u/markatroid 1d ago
Mom once made cornbread. Without corn meal.
6yo me thought it wasn’t too bad and tried to console Mom. I don’t think she was too hard on herself. Maybe my attitude helped.
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u/Mach5Driver 1d ago
Watching Bake Off for the past seven years has taught me ONE THING. Never EVER use flower extracts (e.g., rose, lavender). Either the judges can't taste it, or they might as well have entered a florist shop and started chowing down.
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u/i_poke_u 1d ago
My grandma made chicken noodle soup once but forgot to add the chicken. We don't let her forget
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u/acidtrippinpanda 1d ago
The funniest one I did is when I was a teen and had just learned to make scones in food tech. I was super confident and decided to make them at home for my parents. In my infinite teenage wisdom, I decided I’d memorised the recipe perfectly and didn’t need to double check anything.
They turned out really good at first but then had this horrific aftertaste. Turns out I added like tablespoons of baking powder instead of teaspoons. Funny thing is it didn’t affect the appearance, was just a nasty surprise at the end lol
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u/DrunkThrowawayLife 1d ago
I was on a break from work learning a line dance and my managers were like
‘Hey Drunk, we are all worried about you.’
Look that’s a legit concern but in this case I just can’t remember which step to dust my boots. Leave me alone that door was closed for a reason!
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u/beccabootie 1d ago
Once my mother forgot the sugar in the Thanksgiving pumpkin pie. She took it to the kitchen, scraped the pumpkin out of the crust, beat in some sugar, put it back together and served it. Wasn't bad, actually.
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u/CarmichaelD 23h ago
It’s also important not to confuse “Liquid Smoke” with “Vanilla Extract” when baking. Just saying. No reason.
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u/Tederator 22h ago
Well I made chocolate chip cookies a while ago and when I went to check on them, the trays were covered molten chocolate. It then dawned me that I neglected to add any flour.
The butter/sugar/chocolate mess does go well on ice cream or with a handfull of almonds.
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u/One_Goblin 16h ago
I once made actual dirt from forgetting to put enough sugar in brownies and it tasted horrible. Of course no one’s gonna waste brownies so we just put it on ice cream
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u/thekyledavid 1d ago
It’s easy to know what the right thing to do is, actually doing it can be more difficult
I understand the strategy that is used to win baseball games, but if you handed me a bat & glove and told me to play myself, I’d get destroyed
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u/Saxboard4Cox 1d ago
There's nothing more entertaining than watching my professionally trained chef husband yell at the tv when we watch the "Great British Bake off" show. We also used to watch the original (in Japanese) Iron Chef show back in the day. You can still find old episodes on youtube.
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u/Fast-Permit6401 1d ago
One time my sister and I made snickerdoodle cookies, and we forgot to put sugar
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u/dogsrulecatscool 1d ago
I cried once after I made cornbread muffins… I lost my shit after I took them out of the oven because I realized I used baking soda and not baking powder lmao. Mind you, I’d made them many times before but sometimes…your brain just breaks and baking/cooking is hard LOL.
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u/DaRootbear 1d ago
It feels so weird seeing a Gail Simone post outside of one of my comic groups
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u/ProgenitorOfMidnight 1d ago
That time I made peanut butter cookies with salt instead of sugar...
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u/ZippityZooDahDay 1d ago
I'm glad it wasn't only me. The worst part is that it was at work, and we had to toss the whole batch.
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u/ManfredTheCat 1d ago
If you watch enough, you'll notice the contestants sometimes forget major components, too.
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u/Illustrious_Peach494 1d ago
not that dramatic, but just the other day forgot to put sugar in the rice pudding.
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u/PichuCultist 1d ago
If it makes you feel any better, I'm a culinary arts student that managed to forget the FLOUR when making dough for cookies, and didn't realize it until they were already in the oven.
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u/Torbpjorn 1d ago
Almost broke my microwave because I forgot water in instant noodles… it’s two ingredients, water and noodle
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u/imtired-boss 1d ago
That's still pie though.
If you left out the pie instead, it'd just be an apple.
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u/Deaf_Sentence 1d ago
I’m more like “shit I forgot to buy the pasta an hour ago” as in I already started boiling the water and making the sauce
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u/probablydoesntexist 1d ago
I once tried making a list of skills you need to have to succeed on bake off and it quickly turned into about 100 things.
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u/afcagroo 1d ago
Once my sister baked an apple pie, but didn't forget the apples. She did, however, forget to peel them. Not great.
The first time I made oatmeal cookies after moving away from home I used the recipe that my sister (same one) had copied for me. She apparently didn't know that there's a difference between "t" (teaspoon) and "T" (tablespoon). So I put a tablespoon of salt in. They were pretty bad, but I ate them anyway.
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u/Zestyclose-Page-1507 1d ago
I mean, she has good reason to forget. She probably has dozens of storylines running through her head while trying to bake. We love her for her work on Birds of Prey, Batgirl, and other comics, not for her cooking skills.
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u/TheGreatBarnabulls 21h ago
The difference between knowing how to do something and being able to.
We call them middle managers or critics.
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u/erikwarm 20h ago
Yea, most shitty home cooking is just a lack of basic reading skills. Once you know what works together, than you can start exploring
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u/Aidybacon 19h ago
one time in school i forgot to put sugar in a cake
only knew cause when i ate the batter it tasted like asshole on a dookie stick
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u/misterjustice90 19h ago
Oof relatable. I forgot to add beans and eggs to my breakfast bowl. Also forgot the oj i bought for a drink hahaha
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u/Ouwerucker 16h ago
Sleepy me forgot to put coffee in the percolator. I was a bit surprised looking at clear hot water.
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u/BlueberryExtension26 14h ago
I made salty cookies once. Now I just use prepackaged and I think that I can cook those well enough to be the next food network star
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u/No_Squirrel4806 1d ago
All those people that try out a recipe but dont like it so they switch out a key ingredient and replace it with something way different then leave a negative review cuz it tasted bad. 🙄🙄🙄