Things in recipes that amuse you

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  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,464 Member
    TeaBea wrote: »
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    My mother's recipe for banana pudding says, "Butter the size of an egg". That's 4 tbsp in modern stick butter.

    LOL!

    My mother had a recipe that called for 4 melted 5¢ Hershey bars. Wonder what size they were back then.

    Omg! Hershey pie! I LOVED it as a kid. Have the recipe, can’t get it right. Either too much or too little.
    4 5-cent Hershey bars, a bag of marshmallows, a carton of cool whip. So easy, so hard!
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,960 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    acpgee wrote: »
    paperpudding wrote: »
    neugebauer52 wrote: »
    ..."stir it anti clockwise"... It might be a bad translation from Cantonese.

    Is the issue the words anti clockwise? - which as poster pointed out, is the normal term in many places. Not mis translated at all.

    Or the fact that it had to be stirred in that direction only? - which I agree does seem weird.

    Seems weird indeed, although I have a cousin who is a research scientist specializing in manufacturing processes for pharmaceuticals who once told me that for certain chemical reactions, liquids have to be agitated in a very specific way.

    And here I thought it was something only learned in Hogwarts Potions class. Interesting.

    He told one amusing story where his lab was hired as consultants by a drug company that could synthesize a certain medicine in a vat containing about 1 litre of liquid. The synthesis involved controlling air pressure, gradual change in temperature and a very specific agitation pattern. For months they tried to reproduce the synthesis in larger containers to no avail. In the end, to scale up for industrial production they just had to use 500 little 1 litre containers.
  • hmhill17
    hmhill17 Posts: 283 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Not sure if it's been mentioned but i have a cast iron cookbook and with every recipe it says

    "using potholders..." this is usually in a recipe to something that has been in the oven

    Is this really something we need to be reminded of this??? it always makes me giggle a little

    As someone who has grabbed a hot pan handle that was recently out of the oven, sometimes we need reminders. Though I did start putting the pot holder glove over the handle instead of on my hand for things like that.

  • ashleylaurenbuzzard
    ashleylaurenbuzzard Posts: 1 Member
    I have a few of my mom’s recipes and my favorite instruction she gives is “bake until done”. It always cracks me up because...1. Duh and 2. Still not enough info! I usually end up calling her to find out the timing which come to think of it is probably the genius part of the instructions on her part!
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    nikkit321 wrote: »
    Keep mixing until it feels right. If I've never made it, how do I know if it "feels" right??

    These are the kinds of instructions i give my husband when he’s cooking lol :D he asks me how nuch oil and I say “quite a bit” he gets so mad at me hah
  • Motherofship
    Motherofship Posts: 122 Member
    "Stiff peaks"
  • debrakgoogins
    debrakgoogins Posts: 2,033 Member
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    Seeing Pancakerunner’s thread in Food & Nutrition about Angel Food Cake I went to Pinterest to have a look at recipes for it. What did I find?

    “Two Ingredient Pineapple Angel Food Cake”.

    The two ingredients: Angel Food Cake Mix & a tin of Pineapple 🤯🤯🤯🤯

    That recipe is delightful. I used to make it for my kids.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,282 Member
    just_Tomek wrote: »
    errickar wrote: »
    "Stiff peaks"

    Really?


    Yes I've seen that in recipes that have beaten egg whites , eg lemon meringue pie.- beat until standing in stiff peaks.

    I haven't found it confusing - but I guess it could be if you don't know what stiff peaks refers to.
  • jthillk
    jthillk Posts: 18 Member
    Yes, similar, but I think it was making fun of allrecipes.com for some reason.
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    It's annoying when a certain blogger always says "This is the BEST recipe for **** ever!" for every recipe she shares. Ok... if you say so.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    GlenStevens1976 wrote: »
    I like it on a packet of peanuts it says may contain nut😂well I would hope so 😂

    My favorite story like that was back in the early 90's when caffeine was the big bad chemical and many drinks came out with a caffeine free version and those that never had it were advertising that fact. A gentleman came up to the cash register stating that he did NOT want the caffeine free 7-UP, he wanted the regular. Could not convince him that he was getting the regular and they put "Caffeine Free" on the box just to show people that it does not contain any. He left the store without buying it.
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    GlenStevens1976 wrote: »
    I like it on a packet of peanuts it says may contain nut😂well I would hope so 😂

    My favorite story like that was back in the early 90's when caffeine was the big bad chemical and many drinks came out with a caffeine free version and those that never had it were advertising that fact. A gentleman came up to the cash register stating that he did NOT want the caffeine free 7-UP, he wanted the regular. Could not convince him that he was getting the regular and they put "Caffeine Free" on the box just to show people that it does not contain any. He left the store without buying it.

    I've found the same thing happening now with "Gluten Free." Stuff gets labelled as gluten free that never, ever, contained any in the first place! :D
  • hmhill17
    hmhill17 Posts: 283 Member
    jthillk wrote: »
    I find it amusing when there is a recipe and people write reviews after making the recipe...but have completely butchered the recipe and then give it like zero out of five stars. If you follow the recipe 100% and it flops, that's fair, but otherwise, not fair. I saw a hilarious joke a few years back pertaining to this but have never been able to find it again. If anyone know what I'm talking about, please post it.

    Whenever I see something like that on a recipe site, I flag it as inappropriate. At least on the sites that allow it. Whether they rated it 5 stars or 0.

    The site I use the most, I use the review section to leave myself notes for the next time I see the recipe. That way if there was a glaring mistake, I know not to make it the next time.
  • Toria718
    Toria718 Posts: 396 Member
    I remember seeing a bag of apples labeled as fat free in college, someone brought it in during our health class because they found it funny
  • Katmary71
    Katmary71 Posts: 7,082 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    GlenStevens1976 wrote: »
    I like it on a packet of peanuts it says may contain nut😂well I would hope so 😂

    My favorite story like that was back in the early 90's when caffeine was the big bad chemical and many drinks came out with a caffeine free version and those that never had it were advertising that fact. A gentleman came up to the cash register stating that he did NOT want the caffeine free 7-UP, he wanted the regular. Could not convince him that he was getting the regular and they put "Caffeine Free" on the box just to show people that it does not contain any. He left the store without buying it.

    In this same vein packaged iced tea being labeled diet drives me crazy. Straight tea has 5 calories, it's the packaged sugary stuff that should be labeled differently.
  • forestdweller1
    forestdweller1 Posts: 415 Member
    Recipies that call for bread crumbs...say soak them in milk...then squeeze the milk out...WTF ??
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    forestdweller1 wrote: »
    Recipies that call for bread crumbs...say soak them in milk...then squeeze the milk out...WTF ??

    Makes sense so the final dish is not too dry. When a recipe calls for that I just use crumbs I make from fresh bread.
  • PAPYRUS3
    PAPYRUS3 Posts: 13,259 Member
    When chefs say - "...just a splash of oil or just a bit of butter..." The 'splash' is probably more than 1/4 cup+ of oil and 'a bit' is usually a stick or two of butter.
  • BarbaraHelen2013
    BarbaraHelen2013 Posts: 1,940 Member
    Not exactly a recipe but a photo of a recipe on Pinterest...

    Scrolling through I saw what looked like spicy meatballs (or vegetarian’meat’ balls) pictured on a crispy poppadum. Looking closer it freaked me out because the balls looked like they’d been made with tiny worms! 😱

    Turned out to be chocolate truffles covered with chocolate vermicelli on a sheet of very crumpled parchment paper but it did shock me for a few seconds! 😂
  • s131951
    s131951 Posts: 3,776 Member
    MelG7777 wrote: »
    When a recipe says to “unthaw” something. Really? You want it “UNTHAWED”? So, like, you want it frozen then is what you’re saying? Or when something says “hamburger” instead of ground beef. Okay, I’m being nit picky now. Lol.

    Thank you

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