Cooking and baking gripe thread

[SummerRain]

Have you burnt a spounge? Did it sink in the middle? Have you killed the yeast in your bread? Ice your cake too early and it dripped down the sides? Does your pastry have a soggy bottom? Did you confuse sugar and salt again?

Then come here and moan, cry and - most importantly - commiserate with each other over it.

Today I wanted to make banana chips, I read the recipe that told me to put the banana slices in the oven at 200 degrees for 3 hours. Being from the UK, I assumed it meant Celsius, and I burnt three bananas to high heaven and now have the fun of cleaning it all off. Units are important!

 

[Amy SF]

But surely you wouldn't have set the oven at 200 degrees Celsius? Don't ovens in the UK have different settings anyway?

Anyway Sorry that happened to you.

 

[SummerRain]

I did, I did it at 200c and it should have been 93c I've never made them before, I didn't realise it should have been a low heat. The settings are in C (or gas mark if you're oven is gas).

 

[peacefulveglady]

I cannot make good pancakes but my husband can..

 

[Forster]

Have you burnt a spounge? Did it sink in the middle? Have you killed the yeast in your bread? Ice your cake too early and it dripped down the sides? Does your pastry have a soggy bottom? Did you confuse sugar and salt again?

Then come here and moan, cry and - most importantly - commiserate with each other over it.

Today I wanted to make banana chips, I read the recipe that told me to put the banana slices in the oven at 200 degrees for 3 hours. Being from the UK, I assumed it meant Celsius, and I burnt three bananas to high heaven and now have the fun of cleaning it all off. Units are important!

This is what dogs are for... dispose of one's mistakes.

 

[Forster]

I cannot make good pancakes but my husband can..

Nooo.... Really? Too hot of pan, flipping them too soon? Seriously what's happening, we can fix this. Pancakes are srs business.

 

[peacefulveglady]

Nooo.... Really? Too hot of pan, flipping them too soon? Seriously what's happening, we can fix this. Pancakes are srs business.

No matter what I do it tears apart and its a flop...

 

[Forster]

No matter what I do it tears apart and its a flop...

make smaller pancakes/get a bigger spatula and before you flip make sure the edges are starting to get a little dry.

 

[thefadedone]

make smaller pancakes/get a bigger spatula and before you flip make sure the edges are starting to get a little dry.

And make sure they are bubbling in the middle before you flip them.

I always screw up baking recipes by trying to make too many substitutions. Sometimes things have come out way better than expected when I substitute different ingredients, but other times it's downright disasterous .