You have to break some eggs to make an omelette, but if you’re missing some eggs and you don’t even like omelettes, it might help to leave a scathing comment online.
Sometimes even the best-laid plans go awry, and if you’ve found a great recipe and plan to make it, it can be disappointing when it doesn’t work out.
Instead of taking it as a learning experience, some hotheaded cooks use it as an opportunity to declare war on the recipe, or even the person who posted it online, instead of taking a much-needed look at who they may really be. responsible for the recipe. culinary disaster.
In a hilarious Reddit thread, titled I had no eggs: terrible recipe reviewsusers have posted the snarkiest and silliest comments left by people who decided not to follow a recipe, but were still furious that it didn’t work.
A hilarious Reddit thread, titled I Had No Eggs: Terrible Recipe Reviews, reveals the snarkiest and silliest comments left by people who decided not to follow a recipe (stock image)
The responses have left readers baffled in disbelief at how many people don’t follow simple instructions, or realize they may be the ones who screwed it up.
One showed a recipe for slow-cooked beef, which one woman changed so much that she made an entirely new dish.
The enthusiastic cook posted a five-star review, calling the dish “delicious” and listing her substitutes, which included using ground turkey to roast the butt, ketchup instead of soy sauce, and eating it on an open hamburger bun instead of rice.
In response, one confused person wrote: ‘Not even remotely the same recipe… weird.’
Some people left some low star ratings on donut recipes saying they didn’t really like the doughy treats, while others asked what steps to skip to make sure the recipe still worked.
“I never know what shortcuts can be taken and what steps are essential,” they complained.
Other unconscious chefs have shown that they are determined to follow a recipe, even if their least favorite foods appear in the title of the dish.
“I don’t enjoy bell pepper very much, I’ll have to find a substitute for it but no matter what,” one person wrote under a bell pepper soup recipe.
Despite changing almost everything in this recipe, the user was very satisfied and gave it five stars.
Another enthusiastic cook left a review saying he doesn’t know what corners to cut to make a recipe work.
Some low-star ratings include donut recipes from people who said they don’t actually like the doughy treats at all.
Stan didn’t like anything about the recipe, but he didn’t let that stop him from making it and then left a negative review.
Some chefs don’t consider the mess and make the dish worth it.
“It’s a bell pepper soup,” one user responded. “If you don’t like pepper, don’t make pepper soup.”
Others simply asked why one went to the effort of preparing food, “when you could just buy it.”
Some strangely complained about the lack of compatibility between recipes for humans and dogs.
On one chicken gravy recipe, a disgruntled dog owner gave it a low one-star rating, listing salt, pepper, and especially onion as offensive elements since they are bad for dogs.
“Other ingredients can be used and the sauce will still taste good to your dog,” they continued.
“Plus, whenever I boil chicken, I save the broth to use later in my dog’s meals.”
Other unconscious chefs have shown that they are determined to follow a recipe, even if their least favorite foods appear in the title of the dish.
A not-so-enthusiastic cook didn’t understand why people bother to cook in the first place.
But recipe reviews don’t stop at complaining about why a recipe didn’t work, because one woman’s favorite brownie recipe comes with a special ingredient: adultery.
Other people were quick to give a 1 star review for a recipe they didn’t follow at all.
Some amateur cooks would prefer all recipes to be designed specifically for them.
Recipe reviews don’t just complain about why a recipe didn’t work, as one woman’s favorite brownie recipe comes with a special ingredient: adultery.
He explained that the recipe in question had been his favorite for “30 years” before diving into a heartbreak story.
‘In the 80s, an acquaintance in Germany to whom I brought some brownies, and who considered herself a great cook, asked me for the recipe but could never make it work.
“She kept asking me what she was doing wrong and I was never able to solve her problem,” the scorned woman continued.
‘She finally moved to the United States and stole my husband!’