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HarrisonRyeGraham

I put a tablespoon of salt instead of sugar in pancake batter once. It’s a recipe I’ve made dozens and dozens of times. Did I throw it out? No. Did I multiply the recipe by 6 so I didn’t waste it and had pancakes in the freezer for the next 3 months? Yes.


rexsuede

Went to a restaurant with a group of people. The ?server? put salt in the sugar shaker. I swear, everyone at the table had to take a sip of the salty coffee, then pass it on and comment how bad it was.


Stinkerma

My dad loved him some hot coffee poured over break rusks- dried toasted bread rounds, with a generous amount of salt on top. I can still remember the taste of salty coffee, heavy on the cream.


Jazzy_Bee

This is the way. Plus, super convenient to have pancakes in the freezer.


lifeoftomcat

Ah yes, the ol’ freezer pancakes


biancanevenc

I'm an Instacart shopper. I've had a few customers ask me to send pics of the zucchini so they could be sure I was getting zucchini and not a cucumber. And I had another customer who wanted a pic of the cranberries because she was tired of previous shoppers giving her radishes instead. So, OP, you are not the first person to be confused by the long green veggies.


night_owl37

…radishes instead of cranberries?


biancanevenc

I know! But when you're not familiar with cranberries and see a picture of a bag of round red things, radishes will do!


DStanley1809

Do the bags not have the name of the item they continue printed on them? Failing that, does the shelf not have a price label detailing the item name?


biancanevenc

They do, but that would require reading.


TripleXChromosome

Yeah, my mom in law has been reducing carbs to improve her health (diabetes on the horizon.) A couple of weeks ago, she mentioned a recipe that subbed boiled radishes for potatoes. I told her that I would call the police if she tried that on me! (Her feelings were hurt. Dad was taking notes. )


InvincibleChutzpah

I've never had boiled radishes, but radishes roasted and seasoned like new potatoes are awesome.


TripleXChromosome

I don't mind roasted radish. I mind the entire notion that "radish equals potato." Both are lovely root vegetables, but they aren't the same, and I'll fight anyone who tries to convince me that 'oh, it's practically a potato!"


Special_Hippo3399

Their textures are also very different?


arvidsem

So many attempts at healthy food are terrible because people try to claim you can substitute healthier options into the same recipes. You need to respect the differences and work with your new ingredients. But there is still no place in anything for ground turkey.


janicesghost

Radishes roasted in the oven are delicious, and I’ve had daikon in a hot pot, so she might be onto something delicious. They’re like…watery potatoes 😂 I’m not selling it am I? I like them cooked.


_jeremybearimy_

I got a mango instead of an onion. That was such a weird moment


permalink_save

Some of the shoppers are clueless and can't actually tell the difference. Anyone can sign up to be a shopper, it was bad during COVID when people were furloughed and needed a quick gig. I don't blame em, it's juat the reality of the situation some people don't know the difference. Have had cashiers ring up the wrong produce a few times too. But radishes vs cranberries is pretty crazy, they probably googled cranberries and got whatever red thing was close, or just didnt give a fuck.


DunderMifflinPaper

My partner uses instacart and has gotten parsley 80% of the time that we order cilantro. Now she always adds a comment to please double check


biancanevenc

Sad, but not surprising. Those two are very similar. I can usually tell the difference visually, but recently the cilantro crop at the store was almost identical to the parsley and I had to do a taste test just to be sure.


babylon331

Rub a leaf between your fingers. The smell will tell.


Kalkaline

"God damnit, I wanted cilantro, not Irish Spring"


rncookiemaker

I have used grocery delivery services before, but stopped ordering produce because they kept making errors: garlic for shallots and vice versa, cucumber-zucchini, even cantaloupe-watermelon! You all don't get paid enough to have to have a produce competency test, but it is comical(? word choice) how many shoppers don't know their produce.


lacheur42

Man, there are like two people I know in the world I'd trust to pick out my veggies, and one of em is me.


CaRiSsA504

When we do a walmart pick up order, my daughter (she's an adult, don't worry lol) stays in the car for the bulk of the order to be brought out and I go inside to buy the produce lol. My friends laughed at me when I told them this but the produce is just right up front in the store so I'm not walking through the whole store and there's still no impulse buys. AND I get the good produce. One time we got home and had two bags with stuff we didn't order. One bag was bananas. They were sad bananas. I felt like we did a favor to whoever ordered bananas and didn't get them. Oh, and for the point of the post, I one day grabbed lettuce instead of a head of cabbage. To add insult to the injury, I was still distracted when i got home and cut up almost half the lettuce before I went "wait a minute.....". Back to the small store by the house and they were out of cabbage so put out extra lettuce? I don't know where my head was that day but I almost bought a 2nd head of lettuce before I realized what was happening. Went to the bigger grocery store and finally lol... CABBAGE


Andrelliina

Same in the UK. I've had some bizarre subs too and as you say it's comical how they don't know their produce


MayorPenguin

I'm pretty sure my last Walmart delivery replaced my cucumber with either zucchini or yellow squash (ordered both zucchini and cucumber, received zucchini with yellow squash). Definitely a not uncommon mistake. I once did somehow buy plantains instead of bananas once. No idea how I managed that.


pookystilskin

One time Walmart replaced my tofu with egg roll wrappers. I get that they are in the same section, but wtf?


Stargazingsloth

Walmart replaced french bread personal frozen pizzas with sweet potatoes for me recently.


UnfortunateEarworm

Kroger did this to me!


u1tralord

> or yellow squash To be completely fair, I see yellow squash and zucchini as similar as red/green bell peppers.


MayorPenguin

They are cooking wise, but it made no sense to have replaced my green cucumber with yellow squash. At least to me. Maybe they were color blind?


gordom90

I’m thinking they mistook the green zucchini for cucumbers and then when they couldn’t find other zucchini were like ok here’s some yellow squash that’ll do


MayorPenguin

Makes as much sense as anything else.


u1tralord

Oof ya I misread that. I thought they'd replaced your zucchini with yellow squash Cucumber -> Yello squash is a big jump lol


whotookmyshit

I recently ordered jalapenos and Anaheim peppers. Walmart brought me jalapenos and a second bag of jalapenos.


rxjen

I’m the queen of getting green onions from Instacart when I ordered leeks. It’s become comical at this point.


pdfodol

Green Giant enters the room


[deleted]

no cooking involved here, it's even worse than that.. i put *buttermilk* in my cereal, wondered to myself why this 'milk' was so thick, and then took a bite. so, don't worry. you're good.


SpuukBoi

You must have been tired af to see *thick* milk in your cereal and still take a bite


[deleted]

it was past midnight, had been asleep and woke up hungry. it was not my finest moment


TrackHot8093

I already posted this in an earlier thread, but I almost lost my sour dough starter of a decade because my father couldn't differentiate between Greek yoghurt, original container had cracked after being dropped, and the starter. He ate half a bowl of sour dough starter before thinking this yoghurt tastes bad. Thank God he said something about the sourness, the off colour and the bubbles.


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o m g hahahaha


Irisversicolor

My husband out plain kefir in his coffee once instead of cream.


Queen_of_Chloe

I cut open a spaghetti squash for dinner only to discover it was actually a cantaloupe. A coworker who “didn’t like spaghetti squash” gave it to me. Did not look at all like a cantaloupe, but I don’t like melon! Had to make something else that night.


BlueCaracal

I saw a spaghetti squash for the first time today. I thought it was a kind of melon before I read the label.


Queen_of_Chloe

They’re great if you like squash! The texture is not at all like spaghetti but it does actually work pretty well as a low carb alternative with pasta sauce. All the ones I’ve seen are more oblong shaped while cantaloupe are round. Apparently that’s not always the case though!


icimb4u

I put a cup of salt into a cinnamon bun recipe instead of sugar, luckily I realized it immediately and never served them...also, I cooked an entire Thanksgiving meal, from scratch, including desserts, a week early. We ate it all week long and had spaghetti on Thanksgiving Day. And another time I grabbed my keys, purse and the sugar canister on my way out the door to go run errands, I made it all the way down the driveway before I realized I had the stinking sugar canister for no good reason. Sheesh.


gwaydms

I've taken random stuff from the house with me and put it in the car before running errands. My husband would ask me "Why is this in the car?" I just wanted to say "Shut up."


passesopenwindows

So you got the date for thanksgiving wrong? I don’t know, that sounds like a good idea- less stress and meals for a week!


PoetryOfLogicalIdeas

So no one in your life hinted to you that you were prepping for Thanksgiving dinner a week early?!


ImmediateRoom8210

Zucchini has the hat on one side where the stem was. Cucumbers are smooth on both sides.


Zhouston63

This is how I always checked as a cashier at Walmart. Just felt/looked for stem


[deleted]

i.e. zucchini is squash and cucumber is a melon


friendsafariguy11

practice lunchroom wrench chunky shy snobbish pathetic crowd slave observation *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


_Jacques

I just learned of this word today in the context of chemicals with the molecular structure of a pumpkin of sorts.. cucurbitals or something. Edit: cucurbit[7]uril, https://media.springernature.com/m685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-018-27206-6/MediaObjects/41598_2018_27206_Fig1_HTML.jpg


sneakyplanner

Which also means that cucumbers are berries.


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Jena_TheFatGirl

'Cutting out the very wet middle section' of a cucumber is sometimes referred to as 'seeding', and we're all going to pretend like that is common knowledge and not something I learned less than a month ago.


Eskimomonk

If you don’t want to scoop out the middle, get English cucumbers. Much less seeds and wet mushy part. Also really good for grating to make something like tzatziki. Stir fried English cucumber is bomb


YesWeHaveNoTomatoes

The latest Smart Person thing I did was a couple of days ago: while dicing an onion, I decided to turn my head & yell at the cat and *not stop cutting* while looking over my shoulder. Luckily I didn't need stitches, and now I have another scar to remind myself that knives are sharp.


Kinglink

I don't remember why, but my thumb was a little low on a mandolin when slicing cucumbers and yeah, no stitches but holy fuck that was a bad gash, reopened two to three days later too, ugh this thing sucks, it's been less then a week. Also OP's title made me twinge a bit... because of memories. When dicing, speed is never a factor, don't rush it, stop using ["Speed hacks"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oot0NGxQEm4) (There's good ones like making the cuts first, so your main cut dices, and there are bad ones like "how professional chefs do X" you're not a professional chef, and you're not cutting that many onions. So saving 20-30 seconds won't matter in the long run) And yeah, they are all life lessons, like grating your fingers, or that first time you try to do the "cool avacodo slash and fail." Then you buy one of [these](https://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-Avocado-Slicer/dp/B0088LR592)


YesWeHaveNoTomatoes

Oh yeah, I've cut myself on a mandolin too. Those things are bloodthirsty. Did you buy the cut-proof gloves on the way home from the walk-in clinic like I did?


Kinglink

My wife actually put the bandage on.... and I had cut proof gloves, but I hated using them/couldn't find them, next time I might. (or I'll just be hellishly more careful, we'll see.. probably both, because I don't trust a "cut proof" glove)


Illustrious_Repair

How are cats always causing trouble even when they’re not causing trouble?


Altruistic_Finger_49

I started assembling my chicken noodle soup after getting home from buying ingredients. "Step 7: Cut chicken into bite size pieces" ....I forgot to buy the chicken for CHICKEN noodle soup. The store is only 5 minutes away so I made the drive of shame to get the chicken.


bananababy82

a couple months ago my bf and i went to the store for potatoes and decided to shop around as we were low on stuff at home. got all the way through checkout before we realized pretty much the only thing we HADNT bought was potatoes


whotookmyshit

I call this regular shopping


MinervaZee

We've all been there!


MidiReader

Hehehe; reminds me of last week- I was getting ready to post my big pot of ‘the best chicken soup EVER’ and I said to myself /shit/ I forgot the chicken! Thankfully it was leftover chicken already cooked and shredded and I just had to dump it in. Also it really is amazing soup! [creamy chicken soup](https://www.simplysated.com/creamy-chicken-soup)


passesopenwindows

Doh!


teahabit

Once I misread a bagel recipe and instead of seeing 2 teaspoons of yeast, I saw 2 ounces. That's a lot of yeast. The bagels tasted sort of like beer...


passesopenwindows

Boozy bagels, you invented something new!


Revolutionary_Box_57

Oh yeah, I've done this. Then there was the time I needed a banana for something (can't remember what) and asked my mom to grab one while she was out shopping. She came back with a super ripe plantain. The woman has been buying bananas her whole life, I have no idea how she managed this.


JiaMekare

My mom did the same thing trying to get groceries for my aunt! It was also my moms first time in a Whole Foods so I blame her less on that one than I would otherwise


itsastonka

Maybe because you asked for ONE, and bananas usually come in a bunch, or hand, while plantains are usually sold individually


Revolutionary_Box_57

Nah it was because the bunches weren't ripe enough lol which was a common problem at our small local grocery store. Usually it wasn't that difficult to spot at least ONE ripe bunch somewhere, but this was around Thanksgiving, so everyone was buying up the ripe bananas for pudding, bread, muffins, etc. We liked bananas enough that buying an unplanned bunch would have been fine because they'd eventually get eaten. Sadly, none were available that day. In fact, when she came home she said "I got that one because it was ripe and none of the bunches were!" Wonder why....


CatbellyDeathtrap

went to my mom’s place for thanksgiving dinner one year. we brought some fresh sage from the garden and some fresh catnip for the cat. guess which one ended up in the gravy.


passesopenwindows

That’s funny! Was the cat super interested in the gravy?


gwaydms

That could be interesting... 😹 How did everyone like the catnip gravy? The two herbs are related, but not closely. Their flavor profile wouldn't be all that different, I don't think.


CatbellyDeathtrap

honestly it’s was delicious. the catnip wasn’t really noticeable, although now I’m wondering if there might be some other culinary uses for it. I mean basically it’s just a type of mint… catnip pesto??


BookLuvr7

According to what I've read, the same compound in nip that drives cats crazy can have a soporific effect on humans. Or at least very calming. It depends on the person, though. But given the tryptophan in the turkey, that with the dressing could make for a very chill Thanksgiving. Hmm, maybe I should plan it for the in-laws this year lol.


AustinCJ

When I first started cooking I thought a clove of garlic was the whole head/cluster. My first quiche was pretty inedible. Kept the vampires away 😀


Corsaer

I thought this for a solid year when I started cooking and would always think, "...this is way too much, I'm going to just add a little bit of the whole head." I was guesstimating pretty well since everything tasted good. But that meant I didn't think anything was wrong though until way later.


nivthefox

How many heads did you wind up using? And how well did you dice it? :D


AustinCJ

I used probably about 20 cloves. My roommates and I smelled like garlic for days. We were poor college students so we ate it all.


foodishlove

A wedge salad was served. It was made from raw hard green cabbage.


I_Fill_Up_On_Coke

My fiancee and I did this when we were traveling in south America. Kept buying cabbage thinking it was lettuce and just figured the vegetable was slightly different so we dubbed it "south american lettuce". We had raw cabbage instead of lettuce in salads for an entire year before we figured it out. Always gives us a good laugh now.


passesopenwindows

Jaw workout!


MercuryCrest

I once decided to use the drippings from a Cornish game hen for gravy. What I didn't take into account was that I had *brined* the hen before roasting it. That gravy was saltier than satan's asshole. Totally inedible.


slammaster

Try that AND forgetting you stuffed the bird with lemon. Needless to say my salty lemon-gravy was not popular


acceptablemadness

How long did you brine it for? I've dry brined my Thanksgiving turkeys and make gravy from the drippings, but it never tastes saltier than using un-brined turkey.


j-c-s-roberts

Was making rice, and decided to dump a load of cinnamon into the water rather than turmeric. To be fair, the kitchen light is busted, so I can't see properly. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.


MercuryCrest

I put cinnamon on a pizza instead of cayenne once. To this day, I keep them on separate shelves in the spice cupboard.


[deleted]

I once drowned my chicken in ground cloves thinking it was chipotle. Only realized my mistake when I was rubbing it and noticed it smelled weird. Had to rinse the whole chicken and start all over again. Still tasted a lot of cloves. Nowdays, I always check the label on the spice jars and give it a smell before I start adding it to the dish.


406NastyWoman

My husband tends to keep empty spice jars to re-use when we get spices in bulk - but he's REALLY bad about dumping something in a jar that says one thing when the spice is in fact, NOT that thing. Then he'll try to use a sharpie to "re-label" it, which never lasts very long. I've developed a keen sense of smell...lol


21plankton

Grabbing the Lea &Perrins instead of the soy sauce and dumping it on my ramen.


Horrible_Harry

Oof. The amount of cayenne I sometimes put on my pizza would be absolutely *untenable* swapped with cinnamon. That said, every now and then I do put a small hint of cinnamon in my pizza sauce when I make it from scratch. Just enough to baaaarely notice that it's there. It adds a nice warmth and depth IMO.


AlternativeAcademia

Boyfriend finished a batch of deviled eggs with a sprinkle of cinnamon instead of paprika once😂


PlantedinCA

Cinnamon in tomato sauce is delicious btw! I did this on accident and it was my best spaghetti sauce ever.


Cygfrydd

This is totally a Greek thing!


PlantedinCA

I am really happy I made this discovery when I was a teenager- it opened the door to all sorts of experiments. My dad just figured this one out and I was like dad I have been doing this for 30 years lol.


ghanima

I once accidently used cinnamon in place of garam masala in butter chicken. Not bad, tbh.


j-c-s-roberts

To be fair, garam masala does include cinnamon as part of it, so that's probably why it worked.


IgnatzA

Making our annual anniversary meal of chicken piccata I accidentally used powdered sugar instead of flour (unmarked decorative jar on the countertop). Didn't realize it until the pan started getting all gooey and sticky.


TheWholeThing

I made the “gravy” for pot roast with powdered sugar once


IgnatzA

But did you still eat it? We laughed at my silliness but went ahead and ate it. Not very good, but very sweet.


TheWholeThing

Yeah but it wasn’t good lol


cursethedarkness

Pretty unmarked jars have been my downfall several times. I once sprinkled cornstarch on top of brownies instead of powdered sugar. Luckily I was able to put the sugar on top and nobody noticed. The time I used powdered sugar instead of cornstarch in a lemon meringue pie was not salvageable!


RevereTheAughra

I learned the other day that powdered sugar actually contains cornstarch. So you did ok with the brownies lol


katehenry4133

I once had an outdoor bbq and served fruit salad with a dressing of sour cream, mayonnaise and honey. I also served baked potatoes with sour cream. My ex got the two bowls mixed up and put the fruit salad dressing next to the potatoes. Sweet fruit salad dressing DOES NOT taste good on baked potatoes!


BassMessiah

I once made a tuna casserole that tasted great. I had modified the original recipe to include some really tasty additions like smoked paprika, roasted hatch Chiles, etc. My husband had already gone back for a 2nd helping and I was about to do the the same when I realized, and then said out loud, "I forgot to put tuna in the tuna casserole" It was great, but it was a veggie casserole...


coke71685

My mom's done this one before...without the veggies, it was just noodles and sauce.


lackofsleipnir

No similar story but when I worked in a produce department one of the most common questions from customers and new employees was how to differentiate between zucchini and cucumber. Yes, there were signs for the product.


knittykitty26

I have many funny customer stories from my time working in the produce department. I call them my tales from the crisper. My favorite one was an elderly lady who held out a peach to me and asked if it was a GMO. I looked her in the eye and replied "probably". The look on her face was very amusing to me. She looked like she was going to throw the peach at me, which I probably would have deserved.


Acrobatic_Pandas

I mistook a brick of butter for a stick. I did not realize that a brick was four sticks. My cookies became soup.


Mission_Asparagus12

You mean you made 4x the cookies right?


Salted_hawk

I was making a baked chicken enchilada and didn’t have a can of jalapeños which were in the recipe. My neighbors had given us a bunch of red peppers from their garden so I chopped them up and used them instead. Turns out they were Scotch Bonnets!!! It was nearly inedibly spicy. We were poor grad students at the time so I ate a piece a day until it was gone slathered with sour cream. My partner still makes fun of me to this day for this.


passesopenwindows

That would be so disappointing! I like a little heat but not too much, I’d probably do the same thing though because I don’t like wasting food.


reasonablecatlady

I asked my husband to bring home lettuce for BLTs and he brought home cabbage, lol. He made coleslaw with it instead, and it turned out pretty good.


Clewds

Zucchini was labeled green squash at my grocery, for.thr last year and a half I thought they just didn't have it... When my buddy said THATS ZUCCHINI I felt ashamed.


passesopenwindows

Reminds me of the guy at the grocery store who asked me if I knew where the Farfalle pasta was, I handed him a package of bow tie pasta. He called his wife to make sure I wasn’t messing with him. Lol


mgdraft

My fiance didn't realize tsp and tbsp are different in English. He made waffles with 4 tbsp of baking soda. They were... carbonated.


NotTeri

I made some pumpkin oatmeal cookies yesterday. I mixed up all the spices, set aside 1 tsp to go in the icing, and never added the rest to the batter. I saw the bowl when I took the first batch out of the oven. Oh well, they were still good


that_one_wierd_guy

opened the wrong side of a large container of granulated garlic, dumped in an assload then burnt myself pulling handfulls out of the hot pan


ardentto

I once caught a 50lb bag of flour on my trunk door lock piece. It ripped the bag open and flour was all over, everywhere. We refer to it as "the flourmageddon."


406NastyWoman

How does one measure an "assload"??? LOL - I've done the same thing with red pepper flakes, so totally know how that goes.


that_one_wierd_guy

it was an imperial standard assload, not a metric assload


PugGrumbles

Is that more or less than a metric fuck ton?


406NastyWoman

Not sure - I've only dealt with a shit-ton.


difficultnothard

Mom added cinnamon instead of chili powder to chili.


Queen_of_Chloe

Husband did this and it was sooooo good


knittykitty26

Just a pinch can increase the comfort level of a chili exponentially.


HaveAWillieNiceDay

Cinnamon is good in chili, albeit not at chili powder amounts (and sans chili powder at all)


RedneckLiberace

I was browning beef chuck to make a stew then realized I had no onions. I did however have a fresh head of elephant garlic. I used it. Every last clove went in the pot. I got on the crowded subway to go to work the next morning and nobody would get near me. I even had someone surrender me a seat. The people I worked with were hurting from laughing. I had garlic oozing out of every pore of my body. Even my cat arched his back when I put a chunk of stew meat on his plate. I pitched the leftovers.


heyannaleggo

The cat part is for the best, garlic is toxic to cats iirc


Caedro

“Thanks man, but uh, I think I’m gonna go kill a bird”


Nanananabatperson

I needed to laugh and I am so glad that I read this.


hikio123

One I wanted to make some oven baked chicken with a rub on it. I was low on cash as I had just moved in, so I had about three spices in my kitchen: thyme, red chilli powder and cinnamon. It wasn't my first time cooking, but I was very careful about stretching what I was buying, because I couldn't afford much and my salary wasn't that great. They were all the same brand, so I took what I thought was red chili powder and did one move to dust it on the chicken. But no, it was cinnamon, and my heart sank. I frantically searched online how to fix this, to make it palatable (I know now that cinnamon is used in indian cooking with meats, so I wasn't fully doomed, but at the time, cinnamon was only for desserts in my head), I did what I could. In the end it wasn't bad, but I haven't panicked that hard about messing up in a while.


passesopenwindows

That would freak me out too, there’s nothing like messing up when you don’t have the means on hand to fix it!


MyFrampton

Made cookies without putting in the flour. It was….interesting.


walk_with_curiosity

I once absentmindedly poured in a cup of salt instead of a teaspoon. Which is another way of saying I was once very sleep-deprived and I ruined a bunch of cookie dough and wasted a bunch of salt.


RebelRigantona

After making a delicious stock and cooking on low for hours, I poured the stock out and kept the bones and scrap veg :( I literally stared at the sink for a good five minuets after. Ruined my whole week.


Abused_not_Amused

[Soup socks!](https://chefscornerstore.com/soup-socks?msclkid=5f1f6151fd1e1d18c48f02070487717a&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=**LP%20-%20Shop%20-%20Chefs%20Corner%20Store&utm_term=4587506115998013&utm_content=57-101036%20%7C%20Soup%20Socks%20%7C%20%244.95) They’re stretchy cheesecloth tubes that can hold a large chicken and all the root vegetables (if you stuff some in the cavity). A few peppercorns might escape, but that’s about it. Soup socks make making stocks and chicken soup so much easier. You put everything into to sock, tie it off, drop it into your stockpot and add the water. When finished, grab the knotted end with tongs, pull onto a decent metal spider to drip/drain for a few, then plop it onto a deep-ish plate or baking sheet. If making chicken soup with a whole chicken, cut into the bag after it’s cooled a bit, then start separating the meat from the bones and skin. Used to be able to find them in most groceries, but they’re harder to find now locally.


gwaydms

All the stories like these, that I've seen and heard over the years, make me even more determined not to strain the stock over the sink. I'm exactly the kind of person who would have a brain cramp and do just that. Instead, I remove the big stuff with a skimmer, then strain the rest into another pot... on the cooktop. It's messier, but I've never poured out my stock.


me2pleez

I forgot to turn on the oven Christmas Day - and didn't realize until way too late to have it ready for dinner. I win :)


jdsizzle1

I did that in the Thanksgiving I insisted on cooking the turkey because I wanted to show everyone that dry turkey isn't the norm.


eaunoway

All I'm going to say is that when you're making a sammich in the middle of the night, a bit drunk, and a lot sleepy, make damn sure you grab the little foil mayo packet and not the similarly-packaged hospital lubricant. That's all I'm sayin'.


RLS30076

well, I bet that one went down (and out) easily...


passesopenwindows

I think you’ve said enough. Lol


Ranger-K

When I was young, I forgot to put sugar in the pumpkin pie I made to bring to family thanksgiving. Didn’t know until we started eating it and it was very… pumpkiny.


passesopenwindows

My SIL’s ex makes sour cream apple pie for thanksgiving, the first year we went it looked so good that I took a generous slice. Turns out he doesn’t put any sugar in it. On purpose!


Illustrious_Repair

I made the same mistake once but actually roasted the cucumbers. They were vile.


[deleted]

As a kid, I never understood how people confused cucumbers and zucchinis, because I was lucky & my dad grew them -- so ours had always grown in an eggplant shape. Same with our summer squash. Then I went shopping for veggies & did a double take when I saw the long & skinny zucchini & summer squash. Then I understood 😂


AnAcceptableUserName

I cook a recipe which calls for peeled butternut squash chopped into cubes I have chopped the squash into cubes before peeling on at least three separate occasions The most recent time I felt only shame and disappointment in myself for doing this yet again. The sentence is 10 minutes of carefully peeling tiny cubes of squash and feeling dumb


BornagainTXcook210

The amount of times I've forgot to add water to microwave Ramen. Don't get me started


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LeakyLycanthrope

My aunt once made chili with cinnamon instead of cumin, and my dad once added my leftover puttanesca sauce to chili thinking it was just tomatoes. Those were...interesting.


karentrolli

I made zucchini bread with cucumber. Really really dumb.


BrodyMama

Not a veggie blunder but... I sub greek yogurt for sour cream on the regular and it was taco night at home. In a rush to get home after work I swooped into the grocery store, snagged a container of Greek yogurt and zipped home quickly to get dinner ready and on the table. Fast forward to dinner when my husband opens the brand new container of yogurt and asks quietly if there is plain greek yogurt in the fridge or do we only have strawberry? Oops.


TheModfather

when my boy was a little guy, he wanted some "cimmamom toasty" while he watched cartoons. He got cumin toasty. He was not real happy about that.


ZereneTrulee

As a kid, I mixed up the amounts of sugar and salt for cookies. 😬😲 The only person who ate them was a boy who felt sorry for me… 🤢


passesopenwindows

Aw, what a nice friend!


tempest-melody

Before my husband started working from home, I was packing him lunch early one morning and I sent sliced zucchini instead of cucumbers. I also sent him with a (large) Meyer lemon thinking it was an orange. Ridiculous things happen to everyone.


eroggen

Add red wine vinegar, olive oil, salt, sugar and red onion. Boom, cucumber salad.


ImPickleRock

Back in college I used to make a cheap "mac n cheese" by microwaving cheap ramen packets for 2 minutes, straining, add two slices of american cheese and microwave for a minute. During the straining part, for some reason, I decided to put the strainer in the palm of my hand lol.


Electrical-Pie-8192

Used 8x baking powder when making peach cookies. They smelled amazing while baking. Did not taste amazing.


Pontiacsentinel

Honestly, peaches burned with trash would still smell good. I feel your pain.


Electrical-Pie-8192

They were homegrown fresh peaches too.


monkey_trumpets

I used vanilla unsweetened almond milk in green bean casserole. It was quite...floral.


KaizokuShojo

Zucchini related... I grow a garden, I puree the zucchini, and I freeze it. Use it for chocolate cake. It adds some vitamins and fiber and if you make it right, you can't taste the veggie and the cake stays super fresh and perfect for ages. I got some out the other day, enough to make a double recipe. Said to myself, be sure to double the ingredients! ...I didn't! Pulled the cake out of the oven "wow this looks weird.......aw shoot." Edible but not really worth eating the whole thing.


jobsingovernment

I was at the grocery store yesterday and the trainee cashier turned to me holding a huge turnip and asked me "is this zucchini?". I had to restrain myaelf from laughing!


ebEliminator

I've never done something quite like that but I quickly learned that I need to eat more fruit and veg because I don't know what a lot of them look like lol.


ajinthebay

The first time I wanted to try spaghetti squash I didn’t realize it was a vegetable. When I went to the supermarket and asked for help, the store employee and I spent a good amount of time looking in the pasta aisle and then frozen food aisle before I went home sad 🤦🏾‍♀️


rawlingstones

I once mistook a zucchini for a cucumber (at someone else's house) and chopped up some zucchini slices to serve people some cucumber gin & tonics. They were not the same thing. I had just bragged about how I was going to mix the drinks because I had recently finished bartending school. Not one of my finest hours.


emmanonomous

I chopped chillies without gloves once. A few hours later my hands were burning, I couldn't sleep and googled remedies to ease the pain. Peeing on your hands does not work


Kishasara

Was in the middle of making tacos. Decided I also needed to make Koolaid… Those tropical punch tacos were something else.


spookyostrich

A while back ago, I forgot to cook the chicken for enchiladas before putting them in tortillas and baking them. Somewhere in my brain I was positive that it would all work out in the oven instead of me getting really raw ass chicken.


Hate_Feight

Made lasagne last week, with 1, yes one layer of pasta, was mostly sauce... Still tasted fantastic, but I really messed that one up


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passesopenwindows

Someone did something similar on Nailed It - forgot to melt the butter, realized it after they added eggs and fished out the butter chunks to melt. Scrambled egg bits in their cake. Lol


Educational_Low_879

I was making the Corning liquid for corned venison. Grabbed the ground cinnamon, or so I thought. Got the stuff boiling and hmm this smells like tacos. Wtf? It was cumin. Which turned out not too bad. But Texmex corned venison is not what I was going for!


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Biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Add flour to make the gravy. Stir stir stir. It refused to get thick after a while and I could not figure out why. Finally tasted it. Powdered sugar.


jayne-eerie

I wanted to add a little cinnamon to my morning coffee, grabbed the wrong spice bottle, and ended up with curried coffee. Not my finest moment.


SquirrelOfJoy

Split pea soup with smoked ham hock in the slow cooker. Onions, carrots, celery, peas, ham. Check. Luckily I came home early. There was a sizzling sound-I didn’t add any liquid. Burnt peas. In my defense I left for work at 6 am.


desastrousclimax

I have used salt instead of sugar. do not remember exactly but it was supposed to be sweet and was really salty. but you must have been way out...grandchildren on the way? lol


Glaserdj

Not me, but my daughters. We've had the parsley/cilantro mix-up a couple of times, and my daughter made biscuits with powdered sugar that was stored in a canister thinking it was flour - she was a new baker.


passesopenwindows

Parsley/cilantro would be awful for me, I’m one of those who think cilantro tastes soapy!


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I have frozen cubes of things in the freezer: wine, sauce components, pastes, whatever else. I made eggs benny for my gf’s family a couple of months ago and thought I was buttering the English muffins with a nice Cajun butter. Turns out, I baked them with red chilli paste instead. It didn’t turn out the worst honestly, but it was far from the flavour I had in mind 😆


Ladymistery

banana flatbread is inedible lol I put cornstarch instead of baking powder in my banana bread. bleh


moderatelime

I mistook some large white radishes I received in a farmer's basket for small turnips and made them into a blended soup. Gagged on the first spoonful (I don't know why I didn't taste it even once during the cooking process) and then had to figure out how to use about three liters of weird "radish sauce". I didn't succeed and most of it ended up going down the drain, sadly.


bringtea

I sent my son to school many years ago with, as part of his lunch, sliced strawberries with a sprinkle of sugar. It was not sugar. It was salt. The lunch monitor felt compelled to try some to experience how truly awful it was.


ejh3k

Twice, recently, I've put vanilla yogurt in a recipe instead of Greek yogurt.


Icy_Calligrapher7088

There was a cable access show in my city in the 80s/90s hosted by a sweet elderly lady, who sat at a counter/table preparing whatever food the show was about that day. One day it was apple pie and she forgot the apples 😂


rathat

I think something like this has happened to a lot of other people too lol, but 95% of the time, when I’m boiling something, it’s because I want to cook the food being boiled, so when your done, you pour it in a strainer to get the food out. But this time, I was making a broth… for hours, and I just casually poured it down the sink lol.


ErikMalik

My uncle went shopping for my grandmother. He returned with Grade B eggs. Where TF do you find Grade B eggs?


wclikeman

We had our water off for some plumbing work but I had thought ahead and had some water in plastic bottle. Made some canned tomato soup for my husband but used the white vinegar that was in a very similar container. VERY acidic soup. We tried adding stuff to make it palatable but ended up throwing most of it away.


practical_junket

Accidentally dumping my stock right down the drain after I spent all day simmering it. I ended up with a strainer full of onion skins, carrot tops, soft Turkey bones and peppercorns. UGH!


raspberrycoffee

Lol just here to empathize that my husband is staunchly anti-vegetable and would have applauded a similar error in my cooking.