Today, my 17 year-old daughter told me she was going to bake a cake. When she finished, she offered me some, but it was crunchy. I asked her why and she said the recipe said to put eggs in. She put them in whole. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my 2-year-old asked for cake, so I told her I would make her one. I showed her two boxes of cake and asked which one she wanted. She picked one and happily tried opening it. She'd thought a fully cooked cake is in the box. Ever tried explaining baking to a toddler? FML
Today, I woke up early and spent hours baking and icing a three-tier cake for my friend's eighteenth birthday, which is this evening. I just found out my mother threw it in the compost bin because she's on a diet and it was "tempting" her. FML
Today, my sisters and I were throwing my mom a birthday party. Since I'm not good at baking, I ordered her a really nice and expensive cake. As my daughter and I were headed out the door, she told me she had added some sprinkles to make it pretty. It was the silica beads from a package. FML
Today, to be nice, I baked cookies for my step-mom as a birthday present. I burnt my hand while putting them in the oven, but I'd hoped it would be worth it. When she got home, I gave one for her to try. She took a bite, spit it out, and threw it on the floor, asking if it was a joke or if I was really trying to poison her. FML
Today, I told my daughter that she should put some love into her cooking. She started kissing the ingredients. FML
Today, with the most certainty and confidence that I have ever seen in her, my 16-year-old daughter told me an egg is a fruit because of its "hard shell and growing seed." FML
Today, I was babysitting and told the kid we’d make pancakes from scratch. I mixed everything, poured the batter, and waited. They never set. I'd forgot to add flour. The kid looked at the pan, then at me, and said, “Is this soup?” I ordered pizza and tried to spin it as a “fun cooking experiment.” FML
Today, my two year old daughter was playing in the kitchen. I went to go have a look and she was pretend cooking. When I asked what she was making she said "look mommy, chocolate!" and stuck her finger in my mouth. It wasn't chocolate. FML
Today, I had to explain to my seventeen year-old daughter that deep frying food doesn't "melt the calories." FML
Today, I went to make cookies, the box said mix by hand so I literally used my hands. Not a fork or anything. My step-mom walked in and laughed at me. FML
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ThatLastKid 21
How does one go 17 years without knowing how to crack an egg? Or that it needs to be cracked?
am1717 22
You raised a bright one huh :)
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Comments (61)
ragnarok1540 39
When it said to beat the mixture, I hope your daughter did not grab a hard object and start smashing the bowl ... otherwise some of the crunchy texture might be from shards of glass.
team_garra 8
Seems like she's a chip off the old block!
ragnarok1540 39
Oops, wrong post ...
lvg_fml 10
Have you never baked or cooked with her. If not ydi Even though it seems she would have seen someone use eggs but how do you expect her to know how to cook or clean or do laundry if you never show her
BeautifulChaos27 37
This. My mom never taught me how to cook, and there were no classes to learn such a skill in my high school. Now, I'm 22 and only just learning the basics. About 7 or so years ago I had only just learned what to boil the water meant when cooking pasta. You actually had to wait for the water to start bubbling. Not just pour the pasta in with the water and put it on high heat to then boil (starting the time from when I poured the pasta mind you). Always wondered why my mac & cheese was harder than my moms... I must've ate so much half cooked pasta. T_T
Dale_shackleford 13
Honestly, I think parents are doing a huge disservice to their kids if they don't teach them basic cooking skills. I'm not saying to make them a 5 star chef, but so many people are so clueless that they probably couldn't make pancakes if their life depended on it.
RageWolf16 31
Ok except every millennial had or currently has access to the Internet at some point during their childhood / teens and could easily teach themselves how to cook
Ichiya 29
Its much harder than you imagine to teach yourself to cook without a basic understanding. My mother always assigned tasks for me and my brother and sister while cooking. By age 13 we were doing most of the cooking with her supervising and handling the complex tasks. Now as a 23 yr. old college student living at home I cook every meal in the evenings while my parents are at work.
CouchOrnament 11
This. Children just don't automatically know, even if you've cooked around them before. I've taught both of mine the basics and have been teaching my daughter how to make more complex dishes. Tonight she learns butter chicken and curried rice. OP needs to really get her 17 year old ready for the real world, teach the basics of house keeping, cooking, how to change a tire and oil, check the fluids in the car, how to do taxes, how to grocery shop (it's an art form people). The only person to blame for your child being oblivious to basic tasks is yourself.
bloodykid 8
too innocent
Onigori 14
Gives it some texture.
sidpool912 14
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this generation is so smart
Dynosaur_dollie 38
This isn't a generation specific issue. There were stupid people in every generation and one person being a bit dense does not speak for a whole generation.
Dale_shackleford 13
The cooling issue is mostly this generation, though. I know lots of people that honestly can't cook something if it doesn't have microwave instructions. People used to have to cook to eat, but now it's possible that a kid could grow up never seeing anything more complex than a grilled cheese or burger cooked.
pandalover69 26
I'm technically in this kid's generation and I've never met anyone that dumb before. Most of my friends are between 18 and 20 and they're not even close to being this dumb.
Axel5238 29
The ease of instant and microwaveable make it easier for sure to not know somethings, but to be completely oblivious to eggs needing to be cracked is hard to believe. Makes me wonder if there are those that don't know how to make toast, or a grilled cheese sandwich.
Ichiya 29
I myself am only 23 and have had guys offer to become gay and marry me over my braised beef and tortellini with marsala wine sauce.
PotatoesAndCake 26
She sure ain't the brightest star in the sky
idkausernane 9
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Well, I can see why she would do that, considering she is the offspring of someone who doesn't use grammar correctly.
DirectorLincoln 12
Just be glad she didn't burn the house down...