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[dogpuppy]

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

[sandmandaddy69]

[korrasamibottles]

Not enough people talking about how well broccoli holds a sauce

[dogpuppy]

[dogpuppy]

mixed reviews

[thethirdromana]

The worst types of cookbook:

The Ottolenghi - it is vital that you use 1g of this very expensive ingredient. It comes from a 500g bag with a one-week shelf life.

The time machine - 15-minute recipe! First, leave to marinate overnight...

The dishwasher - one-pot recipe! Now decant your ingredients and wipe out your pot. And again. And again. And again.

The optimist - cook the onions until caramelised (2 minutes).

The kindergarten teacher - get one nommable little tree of broccoli and bosh that into boiling water. Delish!

The brand names only - ingredients: Ritz crackers, Philadelphia cheese, Cool Whip, orange Jell-o...

The 1950s palate - use one (1) clove of garlic and a small pinch of chili flakes (omit if preferred).

The why bother with a cookbook - to make beans on toast, gently heat a tin of beans and put on top of freshly buttered toast.

[badvintagecooking]

So, White Castle has a recipe site, and this might be the wildest corporate recipe site I've ever run across. Every time I remember this site exists, I start cracking up. I desperately want to know who (if anyone) has ever willingly made any of these recipes.

Recipes - White Castle

In 1921, it all started out so innocently. A five-cent small hamburger. A Castle-shaped restaurant. And nothing like it before, or since. A

My favorite recipes below (all of these use White Castle menu items as ingredients):

[neat-deadandlive-things]

There are certainly some things in your life that you can get at discount stores to save a dollar... Cookbooks are maybe not one of those.

[neat-deadandlive-things]

Why so much pop (soda) and candy?!

[haydenthewitch]

my favorite thing about the "guy fieari doesn't swallow" controversy is that in every video i've seen on it there's someone in the comments going "actualy we were featured in diners drive in and dive episode 342 and he came to our restaurant and he definitely ate our food on and off camera like he cleared the plate and he's a really chill dude actualy" and it's like. does guy fieari know that he has a loyal army across America defending him AS WE SPEAK against the stupidest conspiracy theory i've ever heard of

[foodnetwork-fandom]

guy fieri doesn’t what now?

[depsidase]

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

our new head chef Barbecue Pistol is going to rock your world with his brand new fry sauce which is a mix of ketchup and mayonnaise and a little sriracha for that pistol kick

[badvintagecooking]

Fruit-Flavor Popcorn

Jello: fun and fabulous recipes. General Foods Corporation, 1988.

[w-e-i-r-d-f-o-o-d]

What do y’all think, would the powdered Jello contribute anything in the way of texture? Would Kool-Aid work just as well?

[manic-street-creacher]

I immediately made this upon seeing this, except with blackcurrant hartleys jelly instead (I don't think we have jell-o here). It's incredibly nice

You can also do this with seasoning sachets you'd use to make meals. I tried mango masala popcorn last month. I might try fajita flavour soon

[w-e-i-r-d-f-o-o-d]

Then he got an idea, an awful idea. The mod got a wonderful awful idea

[bunniope]

in charcuterie city, you'll always be cheesed to meet your friends

[iamoutofideas]

I hate charcuterie city I want to go somewhere else

[bunniope]

this is all that's left.

[iamoutofideas]

this is all that's left.

[dotty-literati]

the big mamdani

[dotty-literati]

[xanaxfarts]

SONY: Promotional Tea Set

[bogleech]

Does tumblr know about that Papa Johns sauce bottle pissing everyone off on all the other social media?

Its for a good reason but it's kind of also undeniably funny. It really looks like that.

[impossiblepackage]

there’s no way that can be legal

[fieriframes]

[Bed is my friend.]