Today, I wanted to bake some chocolate chip cookies. As the first load was done, I tasted a cookie and it tasted too salty. Thinking it was because of the pinch of salt, I added more sugar to the batter, only to realize that the sugar I've put into the whole batter was actually salt. FML
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Today, I made a small batch of cookies and took them to work. Mostly everyone took one, but nobody said anything until I asked how they were. Someone asked what my recipe was, because it tasted like I'd forgot to add sugar. I bit into one. I had. The cookies tasted like muddy mush. FML
Today, I made Salt Water Taffy for the first time, misread the recipe, and put 1.5 cups of salt instead of the 1.5 teaspoons it called for. Needless to say it's inedible and I had to throw it away. FML
Today, I meant to surprise my boyfriend by baking him a cake. When I took it out of the oven, I realized I had accidentally used salt instead of sugar. He tried to eat it anyway, and ended up spitting chunks of it out all over me. FML
Today, I made homemade pasta from scratch. I spent hours kneading the dough, rolling it out, and cutting it into perfect strips. When I went to cook it, I realized that I forgot to add salt to the dough. The pasta tasted like damp cardboard. FML
Today, I made huge pot of curry, adhering almost exactly to my proven and delicious recipe. It tasted completely bland, even with all the spices. I kept adding salt, until it tasted bland and oversalted at the same time. I think either the salt is broken or my taste buds are. FML
Today, my mother-in-law came over for dinner. She decided to salt the food I was preparing without even tasting it first, then complained at dinner that I'd used too much salt. She then lectured me on the proper seasoning of food for the rest of the evening. FML
Today, I spent all day carefully preparing a wonderful homemade beef and vegetable stew from scratch. Close to dinner time, I tasted it and it was inedibly salty. Confused, my horrifically bratty stepdaughter then laughed and admitted she poured salt in it because it wasn’t what she wanted for dinner. FML
Today, I attempted meal prepping to “get my life together.” Within an hour I'd burned rice, melted a plastic spatula, and discovered I’d seasoned chicken with powdered sugar instead of salt. My smoke alarm and my stomach filed complaints. FML
Today, after a shitty day, I went to the kitchen to make myself something to eat. When I grabbed the salt container, the bottom lid came off and the salt went everywhere. FML
Today, I hosted a family dinner. I made a roast, potatoes, green beans, and homemade bread. Everything went smoothly until I realized halfway through I'd used powdered sugar instead of flour. No one noticed at first, then my aunt asked in horror, “Why's it taste like cake?” The rest of the meal was eyed suspiciously and I almost fainted from the stress. FML
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wmayrhofer 18
Sugar and salt don't actually cancel each other out, you know...
avanillachai 3
I'm just bothered that you did a "load" of cookies and added sugar to cookie "batter." In what world is it not a batch of cookies and cookie dough?
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Comments (16)
RichardPencil 32
On the plus side, you won’t get diabetes! (High blood pressure is another story.)
Gofuckyourself 24
Hahaha the amount of times I've mixed the two up is too high 😂. Now, I have everything labelled lol.
wmayrhofer 18
Sugar and salt don't actually cancel each other out, you know...
BurnInDemonFire 39
Especially if you keep mistaking one for the other.
PenguinPal3017 19
Now that's what I call a salty situation!
avanillachai 3
I'm just bothered that you did a "load" of cookies and added sugar to cookie "batter." In what world is it not a batch of cookies and cookie dough?
darkshadus 10
How do people confuse the two? they come in different types of containers and they have Salt and Sugar written on the container smh
Dexter_1995 1
Agreed. And they have a completely different texture
dedanjel 33
Some people put them in containers after they open the package, so that explains the possible lack of labeling. Not registering the different textures, I got nothing for
demix_fml 32
I have no clue how people mix these up.
darkshadus 10
How do people confuse the two? they come in different types of containers and they have Salt and Sugar written on the container smh
azerty_fml 16
These cookies must have been really really salty. How messed up are your tastebuds that you believe a bit of added sugar will cancel out that much saltness?
PenguinPal3017 19
Years ago when my spicy tolerance was much lower, had a can of spicy chili with lots of ketchup. It was a bit too spicy for me, so next time I added even more ketchup. Somehow it was even spicier. I looked at the ketchup bottle and it was spicy ketchup.
Taurus_ChicKa 37
And I thought I couldn't cook! This makes me feel better about myself!