Have you ever tried a recipe that turned out to go horribly wrong, or maybe the end product, despite being good, just wasn’t worth the effort? What was that recipe, and what about it made you say “NEVER AGAIN”?
I ask this as I am actively trying to remove the stench of onions from my Instapot lid’s silicone ring after making French Onion Soup in it (so far steaming it with white vinegar on the steam setting, soaking the ring in a water/baking soda bath overnight, and baking it at 250 degrees F for 20 minutes have all done nothing, so I ordered a new one, I give up). And I realized that cutting all the onions and waiting hours for them to caramelize and now this damn smell issue just isn’t worth it. Plus I still have frozen soup in the freezer because I can only eat French Onion soup so many days in a row.
NEVER AGAIN.
My wife and I tried to make Pho one year for our anniversary. Went all out and got stuff from the Asian market to make it authentic and to the recipe I was recommended.
It was so bad, we just had to throw it out and order pizza. It sucks cuz I really like Pho, but it’s just not worth trying to do myself.
I’ve got pretty close with my instant pot recipe, but its hours of work and I end up throwing away so much rotted veg because I don’t use it all. So yeah, way better to buy in from a local place.
The good thing is the majority of Vietnamese restaurants are small family businesses that don’t charge a lot. So for me pho is an exclusively eat out option. I know any attempt I’d make would be shit and expensive.
NEVER put lemon juice in an omelette. Absolutely disgusting. Once tried it, not following any recipe. Never again.
I’ve never seen an omelette recipe call for lemon juice, that does sound totally gross.
I do suggest adding a splash of lemon juice or vinegar to the water when boiling eggs tho. Makes them much easier to peel.
I usually add baking soda to the water, does the same thing
One time I made a Chinese restaurant favorite, mei cai kou rou.
It was very long and made a ton of dirty dishes.
It turned out not quite as good as restaurant quality, cost the same, and I learned it’s better left to someone with a prep cook and dishwasher.
I can never get Chinese food right. I’ve tried making my own fried rice and chicken lo mein and it’s always nasty
It’s usually because you didn’t use enough oil, likely you need at least twice what you put in.
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Angel Food Cake. It turned out fine, but it really wasn’t much better than the store bought kind. Plus it calls for about a million egg whites so I was left with a million egg yolks when it was all said and done.
You’re supposed to make an angel food cake and a pound cake using the two halves of a dozen eggs.
What did you end up doing with all the egg yolks?
We buy egg whites in a carton. Much less hassle that way
I tried some asian dessert once. It took a lot of effort to make. It tasted like scrambled eggs with a hint of coconut. Nope, not again.
Pumpkin lasagna roll ups. Absolutely delicious but not worth the time and effort.
I made pumpkin ravioli once. Was also delicious, but definitely will never make it myself again.
egg bites in the instant pot. The texture and flavour haunts me.
I don’t cook or bake often, but I love watching other people do it. I watched a video last week of a dude making “Thousand Layer Pancakes” which were layered thinly sliced potatoes. IDK how many he used, but he halfway vertically filled up a large sheet cake/lasagna pan with paper thin slices of potatoes, coated each layer with oil or butter and then baked it for like an hour or two. He said just layering the potatoes took like a half hour or so.
It looked good, but definitely not worth the effort.
Fried chicken, it was absolutely delicious but the prep work, frying and dish clean up was more than I’d like.
Some sort of marshmallow dessert that added condensed milk and sugar.
It caught on fire in the oven.
It tasted like eating pure sugar.
Threw it away after it cooled and it was also a bitch to clean off the pans. 0 stars.
Reminds me of the time I tried to make spun sugar for some decorations and I wrecked so many pans of sugar water by not getting the temperature right and yes, cleaning them was a royal pain in the ass. The sugar basically turned into a solid rock inside the pan every time, so I had to add water and reheat it on the stove to melt it down again just to get it out.
French Onion Soup is indeed a bitch and a half, but its also delicious and vwry affordable to make. Next time, try a heavy cast iron pot; it’ll absorb the onions flavor without stinking. That said, you still have to endure chopping 3 lbs of onions…
I’ll probably never make fried ravioli again. I like em on salad but its just a pain to deepfry anything and the payoff isnt worth it.
Chopping onions is not an issue. I remember peeling and cutting three bags of 25 kilograms each with a number of farmers wives for some kind of savory onion cake.They had thought it funny to invite me to their table (I was dropping by as one of them had to leave), expecting to see a young man giving up after a few minutes. What they did not expect was that I was quicker in peeling and cutting than they were, as I’ve had learned to do this from a real cook ;-)
I’ll probably never make fried ravioli again. I like em on salad but its just a pain to deepfry anything and the payoff isnt worth it.
This sounds heathenly (yes, you read that right).
Gotta get an air frier! Totally worth it!
No-bake cookies with Splenda instead of sugar. My wife made some and they turned out looking amazing, but had the taste of Bitrex. Absolutely foul.
All things containing stevia are soul crushingly bitter to me. I do meal prepping for a diabetic person who loves it and doesn’t taste the bitterness at all. Between that and adding walnuts (which I am allergic to) to almost every dish, I can’t taste test anything I make for him.
Steak Ranchero. I had a version of it in a family owned Mexican restaurant that has been open for years near me. I moved away and missed it so much, I looked up how to make it online and I tried two different recipes from two different sources and they both came out tasting terrible. The first time the beef was super undercooked and chewy, and the sauce/salsa was very acidic and not very pleasant to eat. The second time the beef was still undercooked, included a bunch of ingredients that I would not have considered to be part of the actual dish (but may have been in the authentic/traditional dish) and everything came out underseasoned and didn’t taste anything like how they made it at the restaurant. I was so disappointed I actually never bothered to make it again. If I really want it, I’ll drive my ass to that restaurant five towns over. Or just wait until I move back there soon-ish.
I set out tonight to make a delicious chicken paprika kind of stewish thing I’ve done before. As is my usual habit I took the jar of paprika from the cupboard and sprinkled a generous amount in the pan. Tasted after half an hour and fuck me, it was HOT.
It was cayenne pepper, not paprika.
My stomach actually hurts a bit.
This is brutal
Paprikash?
Yes, kind of, though I don’t follow a recipe. It’s what veg I have kicking around, flavoured with garlic, paprika and Hungarian sweet red pepper paste. Sometimes a bit of chicken or chorizo.
Oh spicy.
The spice so nice you feel it twice!
