Any Home Bakers Here?

[BullChick]

@BullChick
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Pumpkin muffins
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Ooh, baby!

 

[Bonkerelli]

What is the worst "fail" you had in baking?
I was doubling a muffin recipe.. well I doubled the flour and nothing else, lol.

 

[BullChick]

What is the worst "fail" you had in baking?
I was doubling a muffin recipe.. well I doubled the flour and nothing else, lol.

I didn’t realize that a new measuring set had lines, and I wasn’t supposed to fill them to the top.

 

[jnicholes]

What is the worst "fail" you had in baking?
I was doubling a muffin recipe.. well I doubled the flour and nothing else, lol.

Two fail stories:

First, I was baking bread. I mixed the dough, and I formed the loaves. I put them out to rise. They did not rise. Put them in the oven to cook, and still no rise. I was like, “WHAT IS GOING ON?!?! WHY IS THERE NO RISE?!?!

Then, while cleaning up, I found the yeast in water I forgot to add.

Oops.

Second story is a family legend:

THE LEGEND OF THE CURSED SOUP.

A true story written by Jared Nicholes.

A long time ago, my mother and I worked hard to make a crockpot soup. We finished making it, and we tried it. It wasn’t good. We didn’t like the taste. We put it in the fridge to bring to a potluck later in the week, because we thought someone might like it there.

Then, a few days later, my mother went to the fridge to get food. When she opened the fridge, half the soup spilled all over the floor. I said as a joke, “Mom, the soup is cursed!”

We laughed, and cleaned up.

Two days later, we were taking the soup to the potluck. It then spilled in the car, and made a big mess. We saved half of it again. I then said, more seriously, “It’s cursed! It keeps spilling!”

Then, the next day, my mom opened the fridge. I heard a crash, and I said, “AGAIN?!?! It’s the curse of the soup!”

We all agreed it was cursed, and made it spill one last time in the outside garbage can.

The events of that week went down in my families history, as the legendary “cursed soup.”

 

[BullChick]

Why would they do that? I mean, it had four sizes. Why lines?!

 

[bruceha2000]

It helps to be computer literate to use Linux.

Exceptionally true.


The big problem with Apple products is they are STUPID expensive. And every time they come out with a new model it is missing a hardware feature (buy the peripheral they say) and cost more than the last one. MacBooks used to have CD drives, ethernet ports, SD card slots. The newest version has none of those. But I restart my Macbook maybe once every 2 or 3 months, usually when I load the newest (free) version of the Operating System. Windows machines generally hang long before that.

I have 9 virtual desktops, leave everything running so like a real desk, they are all messy when I get up in the morning I currently have 26 Chrome windows open, most with a number of tabs. There are 12 tabs on my BYH and BYC window. No way I could do that if I had to reboot every few days.

 

[Sequel]

What is the worst "fail" you had in baking?
I was doubling a muffin recipe.. well I doubled the flour and nothing else, lol.

I made a cake and doubled the butter. It was tasty but had the texture of rubbery boat anchor.

 

[R2elk]

Exceptionally true.


The big problem with Apple products is they are STUPID expensive. And every time they come out with a new model it is missing a hardware feature (buy the peripheral they say) and cost more than the last one. MacBooks used to have CD drives, ethernet ports, SD card slots. The newest version has none of those. But I restart my Macbook maybe once every 2 or 3 months, usually when I load the newest (free) version of the Operating System. Windows machines generally hang long before that.

I have 9 virtual desktops, leave everything running so like a real desk, they are all messy when I get up in the morning I currently have 26 Chrome windows open, most with a number of tabs. There are 12 tabs on my BYH and BYC window. No way I could do that if I had to reboot every few days.

You have no idea how seldom I need to reboot my antiquated Windows system. Of course it is out of date and will not work with any of the new stuff so there is nothing that some coder overlooked to mess it up.

 

[topochico225]

What is the worst "fail" you had in baking?
I was doubling a muffin recipe.. well I doubled the flour and nothing else, lol.

I started baking very young, around 6 or 7 years old. I had supervision with the oven, of course, but I thought that doubling the recipe included the oven temperature as well. I turned the dial up high after my mom left, thinking she made a dumb mistake.

I vividly remember my mom smelling smoke, making sure I was okay, then opening the oven door to a billow of smoke. I had turned the temperature dial up to 600 F, the highest broil temp we had, because it was the closest to 350 x 2 I could get.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Bakers good morning one and all!

The temperature is 47 and sunny.

Have a great day!