Oh man, kind of similar, but not due to a volumetric misunderstanding (kind of a long read). A couple years ago before Christmas, my dad and I were making Krumkaker (Norwegian waffle cookies). He heated the iron and I made the batter. When the batter was done, my dad checked the consistency and thought it was too thin. So we added a little more flour to try and thicken it, but it was still too thin. We ended up adding about 2-3 times as much flour as the recipe called for, but it wasn't any thicker than when we started. But that's a lot of flour. So we decided to try making a cookie and see how it turned out. It burned. The batter was still too thin. My step-mom came down to see how it was going and we told her about how baffled we were that the batter wasn't thickening. She looked at our set-up and said, "Where's the flour?" I said, "Right here." "That's not flour. That's powdered sugar." I, who does not bake often, accidentally grabbed the wrong white, powdery ingredient, and neither of us noticed the different consistency. In my defense, the containers weren't labeled. So we made sugar cookies with the sugary batter and started over for the Krumkaker. I then got them a label maker for Christmas, which they both found very amusing.
"In my mind, everything was a tablespoon" will go into the fan favorites for 2021 and be forever remembered if not by the fact that you now have more taco seasoning than any person could need at a time in a non- commercial and non- banquet setting.
It's too bad Mal didn't catch that lizard. You need it to upgrade your climbing gear. The set bonus on it is very useful. You know about set bonuses, right?
9:08 Mal saying "I may have missed a tablespoon, but I can always add more" about the finished seasoning feels like the most ironic unintentional summary of the predicament up to that point hahaha
Honestly, this reminded me of that episode of Hey Arnold where I think the crew wanted to get into the world records for the world's largest Pizza Puff...only to be wrecked by Sid whom misread the recipe.
Similar stories ? Well, in 2017, a family member of mine was supposed to visit me with their significant other + some of their side of the family, so I could meet them. When I asked them how many more people I had to add to the table, she responded 20. I found that a bit strange, but hey, I have the space. So I went shopping, and cooked, when the day came, for 20+ people. When my relative and their significant other arrived, they were 3. They did not meant 20 more people, just 2 additional guests, it was a typo. Needless to say, we ate a lot that day, and leftovers were given as gifts, haha! I still ask for confirmation since that day, always
HAHAHA "Hey you got chili powder?" "Yeah." "Can I have some?" 😂 I guess... now you won't have to make taco seasoning for a while. So there's _something_ good in all of this 'I don't know how to read simple recipes' madness. :P ... Mal, don't ever let him follow a baking recipe. Kitchen probably won't survive that.
...I feel like Stephen should take the extra few seconds to make sure that he's doing directions right. With this, not checking cans of soup to heat up and not making the changes at his parents house, I can only imagine how he would handle doubling any recipe without Mal.
I made a pie with 5 egg yolks and thought to myself, “well then I’ll make my own meringue with the egg whites”. Found a recipe with only 2 egg whites and thought, “can’t be that much harder to basically double”. I never made meringue before. I don’t have a mixer. With these two hands I spent 75 minutes ferociously whisking egg whites and sugar in a small mixing bowl, eventually moving on to a giant mixing bowl when I realized that meringue gets VERY BIG AND FLUFFY the more you mix ferociously. But in the end, I had a deliciously tangy lemon meringue pie and a lot of extra meringue that I baked into cookies. ‘Twas an experience I will never repeat, but a worthwhile reward.
Me: (pauses video and yells to the other room) Hey honey! Stephen pulled something I would do in the kitchen!! 😂😂 My kitchen shinanigans include: tripling a recipe and putting cups of nutmeg in the food, accidentally throwing chopsticks 10 feet away from me, having the oven spontaneously combust into flames despite doing everything correctly, and many others
I once accidentally doubled the amount of butter in a cookie recipe. Turned out cookie like, but I could physically feel my arteries clogging as I ate it
I was making a cake with my girlfriend, who doesn't normally do anything in the kitchen. I was asking her to help with assembling the ingredients. One of the ingredients I said was "2 teaspoons of vanilla extract." Didn't think much of it until I tasted the finished product. IT WAS SO UNBEARABLY SWEET. I asked what she did. She recited all the ingredients back to me and then paused at the vanilla extract. Turns out she used 2 tablespoons of vanilla extract.
cooking mishaps are my bane. one time I forgot to plug in the crockpot and didn't notice for an hour. another time mom and I were making meatloaf and put water in the meat and not the roast pan and it looked like a deflated football. I have so many stories
8 tablespoons of chili powder is half a cup... 😬 Bless mama and papa Georg for helping with the extra chili powder! Good news is that taco seasoning is delicious. I used leftover taco meat in an omelette once and it was divine. As a kid, I used to make lemon chess pie every Thanksgiving. One year, my mom was helping me and she poured some vinegar into a little cup so it would be easier for me to measure out a teaspoon or a tablespoon or however much it called for. I just grabbed the cup and poured the whole thing in. We had to dump it all and start over, but we still had pie at the end of it all!
When I was a wee chiclet, maybe ten or so, I loved whoopie pies and wanted to make them myself. So I followed my mom’s recipe, got the batter whipped up, and she came in the kitchen to check on me. She gave the bowl an approving look and swiped up a bit for a taste test. She sputtered and coughed and immediately went to the sink to gargle/rinse out her mouth. I was horrified. Turns out I’d somehow read the baking soda measurement wrong, if I’m remembering correctly I did a tsp/tbsp thing too… and baking soda tastes absolutely ghastly lol
Alright, I've got a couple similar recipe mix-up stories: 1) Once my dad was giving my aunt a recipe over the phone for cake frosting and he read it as butter OR shortening when it should have been butter AND shortening. My aunt ended up with some very thin frosting 2) I was making cinnamon rolls and the recipe calls for 2 different amounts of sugar, a little bit goes into the dough, the larger amount is for the mixture that gets smeared on them with the cinnamon part. I did not pay attention and put a cup of sugar in the dough rather than a couple tablespoons
Hey could you or Mal send us the recipe for that taco seasoning? Curious to see the normal proportions. Also don't worry Stephen. I've made this mistake PLENTY.
I've done this exact thing but with CUPS. And Native American Fry bread. Needless to say all our neighbors got to try my cooking. Not exactly what I had in mind for some "Quick and easy tacos...."
Being from the north, it always just boggles my mind that there are places in the US where it's warm enough where there are lizards just running around residential areas.
I always marvel the extent you two go to to not throw stuff out, and I have never said anything about it. Today, however, I'm going to tell you that I think in some situations it's okay to waste. 😂 #sunkcostfallacy
this is kind of similar, one time I left a recipe for potato, ham, and cheese croquettes which are breaded and deep-fried for my mom to get ready so when I got home from work we could do the breading and frying. So she looks at the list of ingredients which include the stuff for the breading, doesn't look at the preparation instructions, and just puts all of the ingredients together mixes it up, and calls it good. So all the stuff that was supposed to be on the outside of the croquettes is just mixed in with everything. It was edible but it wasn't very good. So in light of that your mistake wasn't that bad.
i once made butter when i was trying to make whipped cream by hand, that was the day me and my mum learned that i should not whip cream...we went step by step and well i don't register time, i had fun whipping the cream and boom i made butter
That gave me more of a giggle than I intended. Sorry to say I have no such stories to tell to make you feel better. Least, none I can remember anyway! Loved Keppy with the shoelaces, too adorable.
I did this exact thing when baking cookies this Christmas.. which normally would have been fine cause I could have given some away... but because of being in the during times... the 3 people I live with and I had over 100 cookies......
The first time my brother made quacamole he didn't know the difference between a clove and a head of garlic, the recipe said one clove.. im sure you can piece together the rest
When my sister was really young my mom let her make the kool-aid for dinner by herself while mom read the instructions. My mom was busy making the meal so she didn't supervise, she just read the list and let my sister do the work. Come dinnertime and she was SO proud to tell everyone she made the kool-aid by herself. We soon found out that since she couldn't read the difference between sugar and salt we should not store them next to each other, because they were both white crystal powder. My mom made another pitcher.
I don't normally comment, but there was one time when I was younger I made Mac and cheese there was supposed to be 6 tablespoons of milk for the cheese and I made it 6 cups of milk for the cheese. Needless to say that we had to improvise and make a different cheese for the Mac N Cheese. I will forever be teased about that.
I’ll give you a fun cooking story so I was making tuna noodle once just remember the key word tuna... get it all made and eat it just to find out... I forgot to add the tuna.....
During the Summer I usually make a lot of "tomato salad" (tomato, onion, and garlic in vegetable oil with some seasonings). Now normally when I make it I triple the recipe so there's some for about 3-4 days (usually how long it keeps in the fridge), and it got to the point where I wrote down the tripled recipe so I wouldn't have to do mental math while chopping food. Now a few times when I'm making it I'm dead tired at the end of the day, and a few of the ingredients get tripled (again), so there have been times where it's super salty, or super garlic-y, and there was even a time when it was mostly onions instead of tomato. At least when I'm just making it for me, I don't have to fix my mistakes, I just run with it and try out the new "recipe"
I'm sure Stephen's shoes would look even more ridiculous next to my feet :D The other day my mom dug out a pair of boots that she bought for me when I was like 12. They fit me completely fine. Also: this isn't a cooking story, but NASA did once lose a Mars probe worth over $100 million because the units used in the documents were measured in pounds and someone else thought they had been converted to metric...
"Welp" indeed. I've 2 similar stories, both involved making some of AB's recipes. Story number 1, I was making some of AB's chocolate bread pudding and made a mistake about the size of the blender & pans we had. suffice to say that the end result was inedible & a waste of ingredients. Story number 2, T'was making some of AB's Cocoa Mix (Do you see a pattern) and on the final step, adding some cayenne pepper to taste, I added to much. Not enough to make it completely unusable, but enough to make it too spicy to have as often as I would have liked and most of it ended up going to waste. Suffice to say that I haven't made those recipes again since, though I generally don't have an issue following a recipe, just seem to have trouble in the less than direct instructions or eyeballing sizes.
I had a somewhat similar experience but in the form of misreading. I was making my mother peanut butter pancakes and it called for a good but of baking powder, but I somehow ended up grabbing salt... Yeah, my mom took a bite and 5 seconds later freaked out at how salty they were 😅
I get made fun of all the time for this, as it's happened on numerous occasions. The one I'm most often reminded of is making Gordon Ramsay's Sweet and Sour Peppers and Onions. I don't remember how exactly my brain processed it, but instead of using 3 Tablespoons of Red Wine Vinegar, I used 3 cups. That is 16 times the amount of vinegar and nowhere near comfortable for human consumption. I make sure to underline every measurement in recipes now.
I think those are called green anoles? I love those little guys. They're /adorable/. They get into the clinic occasionally (along with the odd small snek, spider, or cricket) and I'm literally the only one who will go catch em and take em outside. So cooking mistakes. I was making chicken parm one night and had everything set out. Chicken was cleaned, marinara sauce was ready, breading station all set up. I breaded my chicken properly which took /a while/, poured the sauce and grated the cheese...and realised /I forgot to fry the oh-so-carefully breaded chicken before putting the sauce on it/. I baked it anyways but it was /not/ great XD;;;;
My favourite mistake (and by "favourite" I mean "the bane of my kitchen existance") is when I want to double a recipe, and then part way through the ingredient list, I forget to double the written amounts, so part of the ingredients are doubled and the rest are the regular amount and if I don't catch the mistake in time before it goes into the pan or oven, everything is just... ruined XP
Times I've done this. Let's see. I added too much dark cocoa powder to homemade oreos and they were quite dry (still good). I once made to little pie crust for apple pie, had to made more while the 90% finished pie just sat there. And the various times where I was scaling a recipe up or down and accidentally added too much of one ingredient. The Baking Gamer has made many a mistake in the kitchen.
This is a story about one of the worst things I've ever eaten and comes courteous of my father. When I was a kid my family went camping every summer, mom was always the one who packed up all the food and dad did most the cooking, which in retrospect is how it all went wrong. So one year we get to our site get everything set up followed by a light dinner then go to bed, next morning as usual we wake up to the smell of bacon and eggs (dad's an early riser so always had breakfast on the go before anyone else in the camp ground was awake). All seems normal as the rest of us stumble out of the tents, in various states of preparedness and set the table, sit down butter the toast, pour the OJ , plate up our food and take a big ol bite of our scrambled eggs all of which are immediately spite out! See my dad makes eggs kind of like Stephen, low and slow with salt/pepper little bit of hot sauce except at the time instead of butter he used oil, which for camping was stored in an unlabeled container. Not usually an issue except this morning dad was up before the sun and in his haste to get things going and out of courtesy for our neighbours didn't turn on any lights save the one directly over the stove. All of this combined meant he didn't realize he'd grabbed the dish soap (Sunlight for those curious why the colour wasn't a tip off) instead of the oil, he hadn't stirred it enough nor had the light to get anything besides semi normal frothing and dear mother nature combined with his coffee covered the odd smell. That aside let me tell you there is not much worse then soapy lemony spicy eggs bubbling up in your mouth first thing in the morning. Lesson of the story kids as my family and I have stressed to my father ever since, ALWAYS label your cooking ingredients and wait for the actual Sun to light up your food .
If it makes you feel better. I have a recipe that calls for a 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes. When my grandmother went to go make it she used 1/4-cup red pepper flakes. She had to scrape some off.
I've done this so many times lol. But there was a one-time when I was doing the opposite so I was cutting a recipe in half and I was making fried chicken so I made half the flower but then put the normal amount of seasoning I had very very spicy chicken it was almost inedible
I messed up 0.5 dl and 1.5 dl once or twice when baking, causing the entire thing to just fall together in the oven. When I saw it happen, I just looked at the recipe and thought "...oh. Oops." It has been over a decade since it happened last, and ever since, I make sure to be sure how much I should put in.
I once had to quadruple a recipe for a sauce, and only quadrupled a few of the ingredients, including the beef broth. So it ended up almost being half beef and half chicken. It worked out in the end and was really good though
First, this was hilarious. And second, any mistake where the end result is an unexpectedly large supply of taco seasoning, how bad can that mistake really be? You learned to be more careful with teaspoons vs. tablespoons, and you got extra taco seasoning. That's a win-win right there.
Ok I got one Stephen in middle school my dad and I were making a pizza cookie to take into school when my dad asked me to spray the pizza pan with Pam but what I didn't know is my uncle bought a garlic Pam with the normal Pam and guess which one I grabbed. Needless to say we had to start over but at least we caught it before we baked it.
Do you know what happens when you put 1.25 cups of flour in cookies instead of 2.25 cups? You get one very flat, scrapable cookie sheet instead of a dozen eatable cookies.
one time i had to add half a cup of milk for some hot chocolate. I added two cups instead because when I saw the 1/2, i only focused on the 2 and ended up with really diluted chocolate milk. would not recommend
I made a similar mistake when making biscuits so I ended up making double the amount the biscuits...which wouldn't be a problem except I was making for 2 and one recipe made 8 biscuits...so we had 16 biscuits. Sigh...we ended up having to freeze half of them. I felt so dumb lol.
I feel like the "taco season incident" is just a little bit of Stephen's mother coming through. He went to make something with "a little extra" and made enough to supply another quarantine
I had a similar situation where I was making chocolate cookie-brownies with my 7 year old nephew, and I gave him the ingredient list and asked him to measure out the flour and chocolate powder. There was supposed to be 2 cups of flour and a cup and a half of chocolate powder. The bowl ended up having 2 cups of flour and “eleven half cups” of chocolate powder, because that’s what he read 1 1/2 to be. I didn’t catch the mistake until after we baked them. They turned out .... fine, just overpowered chocolate brownie under a normal sugar cookie.
So I worked in industrial kitchens for years and now as a result, whenever I cook, I can only make enough for an army. I can't do personal sizes or just enough for four people. It's enough for twenty or more or just myself. No in-between.
I had a simliar experience with flower and my cooking class i had 4 years ago, I was thickening a soup and I read 4 cups of flower instead of a 1/4 cup of flower so I had this super thick soup it was inedible I felt so bad for me team but hey at least it is a good story.
I remember when I first started cooking my sister and I had attempted to make a meatloaf and oh boy we didn’t add nearly enough seasoning and the fact that we forgot to get breadcrumbs and had instead just used regular bread wasn’t that wise of a decision but I still ate it mostly because no else would but it wasn’t inedible just a bit bland
When i was a kid i was trying to make mac n cheese, and for some reason i read 1/3 cup of water as a cup and a third, so i ended up eating flavorless macaroni because i had dumped the cheese packet in already. Also as an adult i tended to make homemade pizza a lot and had some fun mishaps, first i forgot salt entirely and had really bland dough, then i forgot salt until it was already doughy, and the salt couldn't incorporate very well making the dough extra salty, i misread the sauce recipe and used double the chicken broth (that one actually turned out really good and is my go to (especially since we use bullion cubes to make the chicken broth now and the current measurement is exactly how much you're expected to get from a bullion cube)). And one time i managed to forget to put pepperonis on the pizza (we eat pepperoni and black olive pizza), and somehow no one noticed anything aside from it tasting a little different, i only realized that i had forgetted the next day when i was looking at the leftovers
Oh lord do I have a few to help out. First I was making a sauce that asked for what basically amounted to about 1/8 a packet of cholula, yeah I put in the entire packet and the sauce was basically just cholula. I think the best one is I was warming up some cinnamon rolls I had baked the day before. My friend suggested I just put them in for 20 seconds to just warm them up. I put them in for 2 minutes. No one wants hard cinnamon rolls
Mal’s mistake was assuming Stephen knows how to read.
I would’ve loved to know Stephen’s parents reaction to this whole ordeal 🤣
Oh man, kind of similar, but not due to a volumetric misunderstanding (kind of a long read).
A couple years ago before Christmas, my dad and I were making Krumkaker (Norwegian waffle cookies). He heated the iron and I made the batter.
When the batter was done, my dad checked the consistency and thought it was too thin. So we added a little more flour to try and thicken it, but it was still too thin. We ended up adding about 2-3 times as much flour as the recipe called for, but it wasn't any thicker than when we started. But that's a lot of flour. So we decided to try making a cookie and see how it turned out.
It burned. The batter was still too thin.
My step-mom came down to see how it was going and we told her about how baffled we were that the batter wasn't thickening.
She looked at our set-up and said, "Where's the flour?"
I said, "Right here."
"That's not flour. That's powdered sugar."
I, who does not bake often, accidentally grabbed the wrong white, powdery ingredient, and neither of us noticed the different consistency. In my defense, the containers weren't labeled.
So we made sugar cookies with the sugary batter and started over for the Krumkaker.
I then got them a label maker for Christmas, which they both found very amusing.
Loved that story, and what a witty way to turn this Into a funny present at the end
A reverse mail episode where Stephen and Mal send little jars of taco seasoning to patrons and long-time fans.
This is the most adventurous vlog in a year!
"When Stephen gets there make him tell you"
this line made me die XD
“Aye you got chili powder..?
“Yeah”
“Can I have some?”
"No" *Steve goes back inside the house"
At least it wasn´t as bad as the "Buttered Toast" incident. Just a normal day in the Georg household.
Do you happen to remember which video that is? I'm curious now lol
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You can always give the excess to your parents to say thanks for the extra chilli powder. 😂🌮🌶️
I can't wait to see how the Taco Seasoning Arc of StephenVlog shakes out.
Come back to the next Seasoing! Episode next time on Spephen vlog
"In my mind, everything was a tablespoon" will go into the fan favorites for 2021 and be forever remembered if not by the fact that you now have more taco seasoning than any person could need at a time in a non- commercial and non- banquet setting.
I'm excited for the next Broken Picturephone-Vlog edition 🤣
It's too bad Mal didn't catch that lizard. You need it to upgrade your climbing gear. The set bonus on it is very useful. You know about set bonuses, right?
Nah, they need to work on their stealth :P
9:08 Mal saying "I may have missed a tablespoon, but I can always add more" about the finished seasoning feels like the most ironic unintentional summary of the predicament up to that point hahaha
Honestly, this reminded me of that episode of Hey Arnold where I think the crew wanted to get into the world records for the world's largest Pizza Puff...only to be wrecked by Sid whom misread the recipe.
Since my family owns rabbits, we call things like shoelaces and other assorted stringy things "forbidden hay".
DARN I WANTED TO HEAR STEPHEN EXPLAIN TO HIS PARENTS WHAT HAPPENED AND THEIR REACTIONS! LOL
Similar stories ?
Well, in 2017, a family member of mine was supposed to visit me with their significant other + some of their side of the family, so I could meet them. When I asked them how many more people I had to add to the table, she responded 20.
I found that a bit strange, but hey, I have the space. So I went shopping, and cooked, when the day came, for 20+ people.
When my relative and their significant other arrived, they were 3. They did not meant 20 more people, just 2 additional guests, it was a typo.
Needless to say, we ate a lot that day, and leftovers were given as gifts, haha!
I still ask for confirmation since that day, always
The beginning of this video is just funny. Stephen and Mal are comparing their shoe sizes... and then there’s Keppler!
HAHAHA "Hey you got chili powder?" "Yeah." "Can I have some?" 😂 I guess... now you won't have to make taco seasoning for a while. So there's _something_ good in all of this 'I don't know how to read simple recipes' madness. :P
... Mal, don't ever let him follow a baking recipe. Kitchen probably won't survive that.
...I feel like Stephen should take the extra few seconds to make sure that he's doing directions right. With this, not checking cans of soup to heat up and not making the changes at his parents house, I can only imagine how he would handle doubling any recipe without Mal.
I can guess doing a normal recipe twice?
At least you won't have to make taco seasoning next time you want tacos. And the time after that. And the time after that.
and the time after that, or the time after that, or the time after that.
For the rest of their lives!
This is why I've been watching StephenVlog for the past 8 years.
I made a pie with 5 egg yolks and thought to myself, “well then I’ll make my own meringue with the egg whites”. Found a recipe with only 2 egg whites and thought, “can’t be that much harder to basically double”. I never made meringue before. I don’t have a mixer. With these two hands I spent 75 minutes ferociously whisking egg whites and sugar in a small mixing bowl, eventually moving on to a giant mixing bowl when I realized that meringue gets VERY BIG AND FLUFFY the more you mix ferociously. But in the end, I had a deliciously tangy lemon meringue pie and a lot of extra meringue that I baked into cookies. ‘Twas an experience I will never repeat, but a worthwhile reward.
In a home ec class, a group used 4 tablespoons of salt instead of 1/4 teaspoon. Let's just say that a salty muffin is an assault on the taste buds.
Had to come back here after 1/11/22 when mal got tripped up by the same tbsp/tsp confusion haha
Me: (pauses video and yells to the other room) Hey honey! Stephen pulled something I would do in the kitchen!! 😂😂
My kitchen shinanigans include: tripling a recipe and putting cups of nutmeg in the food, accidentally throwing chopsticks 10 feet away from me, having the oven spontaneously combust into flames despite doing everything correctly, and many others
I once accidentally doubled the amount of butter in a cookie recipe. Turned out cookie like, but I could physically feel my arteries clogging as I ate it
I remember I made a cake that asked for 1 3/4 cups of sugar I read 13 cups it was a large cake
@NeptuneWalker family of 8 we are it in a week
I was making a cake with my girlfriend, who doesn't normally do anything in the kitchen. I was asking her to help with assembling the ingredients. One of the ingredients I said was "2 teaspoons of vanilla extract." Didn't think much of it until I tasted the finished product. IT WAS SO UNBEARABLY SWEET. I asked what she did. She recited all the ingredients back to me and then paused at the vanilla extract. Turns out she used 2 tablespoons of vanilla extract.
Ngl I gagged reading that
oh /no/
cooking mishaps are my bane.
one time I forgot to plug in the crockpot and didn't notice for an hour. another time mom and I were making meatloaf and put water in the meat and not the roast pan and it looked like a deflated football. I have so many stories
Hollywood can't beat this unscripted comedy - this is great.
Oh Stephen honey no...Stephen have you learned nothing over the years from watching your wife make food? 🤣🤣🤣
8 tablespoons of chili powder is half a cup... 😬
Bless mama and papa Georg for helping with the extra chili powder! Good news is that taco seasoning is delicious. I used leftover taco meat in an omelette once and it was divine.
As a kid, I used to make lemon chess pie every Thanksgiving. One year, my mom was helping me and she poured some vinegar into a little cup so it would be easier for me to measure out a teaspoon or a tablespoon or however much it called for. I just grabbed the cup and poured the whole thing in. We had to dump it all and start over, but we still had pie at the end of it all!
When I was a wee chiclet, maybe ten or so, I loved whoopie pies and wanted to make them myself.
So I followed my mom’s recipe, got the batter whipped up, and she came in the kitchen to check on me. She gave the bowl an approving look and swiped up a bit for a taste test.
She sputtered and coughed and immediately went to the sink to gargle/rinse out her mouth. I was horrified. Turns out I’d somehow read the baking soda measurement wrong, if I’m remembering correctly I did a tsp/tbsp thing too… and baking soda tastes absolutely ghastly lol
Alright, I've got a couple similar recipe mix-up stories:
1) Once my dad was giving my aunt a recipe over the phone for cake frosting and he read it as butter OR shortening when it should have been butter AND shortening. My aunt ended up with some very thin frosting
2) I was making cinnamon rolls and the recipe calls for 2 different amounts of sugar, a little bit goes into the dough, the larger amount is for the mixture that gets smeared on them with the cinnamon part. I did not pay attention and put a cup of sugar in the dough rather than a couple tablespoons
Less dangerous than the buttered toast, but just as funny
Hey could you or Mal send us the recipe for that taco seasoning? Curious to see the normal proportions. Also don't worry Stephen. I've made this mistake PLENTY.
I've done this exact thing but with CUPS.
And Native American Fry bread.
Needless to say all our neighbors got to try my cooking. Not exactly what I had in mind for some "Quick and easy tacos...."
Being from the north, it always just boggles my mind that there are places in the US where it's warm enough where there are lizards just running around residential areas.
They are EVERYWHERE here in AZ, and i love reptiles, so i like it
I always marvel the extent you two go to to not throw stuff out, and I have never said anything about it. Today, however, I'm going to tell you that I think in some situations it's okay to waste. 😂 #sunkcostfallacy
this is kind of similar, one time I left a recipe for potato, ham, and cheese croquettes which are breaded and deep-fried for my mom to get ready so when I got home from work we could do the breading and frying. So she looks at the list of ingredients which include the stuff for the breading, doesn't look at the preparation instructions, and just puts all of the ingredients together mixes it up, and calls it good. So all the stuff that was supposed to be on the outside of the croquettes is just mixed in with everything. It was edible but it wasn't very good. So in light of that your mistake wasn't that bad.
i once made butter when i was trying to make whipped cream by hand, that was the day me and my mum learned that i should not whip cream...we went step by step and well i don't register time, i had fun whipping the cream and boom i made butter
That gave me more of a giggle than I intended. Sorry to say I have no such stories to tell to make you feel better. Least, none I can remember anyway! Loved Keppy with the shoelaces, too adorable.
At work the other day (I make donuts) I poured 40lbs of cake flour in to my 50lb bowl of water thinking it was yeast dough. I cried.
I did this exact thing when baking cookies this Christmas.. which normally would have been fine cause I could have given some away... but because of being in the during times... the 3 people I live with and I had over 100 cookies......
This is some more live action Breath of the Wild: Stephen doesn't read the text of a recipe and Mal fails to catch a lizard. Tell me I'm wrong.
The first time my brother made quacamole he didn't know the difference between a clove and a head of garlic, the recipe said one clove.. im sure you can piece together the rest
When my sister was really young my mom let her make the kool-aid for dinner by herself while mom read the instructions. My mom was busy making the meal so she didn't supervise, she just read the list and let my sister do the work. Come dinnertime and she was SO proud to tell everyone she made the kool-aid by herself. We soon found out that since she couldn't read the difference between sugar and salt we should not store them next to each other, because they were both white crystal powder. My mom made another pitcher.
I don't normally comment, but there was one time when I was younger I made Mac and cheese there was supposed to be 6 tablespoons of milk for the cheese and I made it 6 cups of milk for the cheese. Needless to say that we had to improvise and make a different cheese for the Mac N Cheese. I will forever be teased about that.
I’ll give you a fun cooking story so I was making tuna noodle once just remember the key word tuna... get it all made and eat it just to find out... I forgot to add the tuna.....
Stephen: we have to much food an my parents are trying to give us and leftovers
Also Stephen:
During the Summer I usually make a lot of "tomato salad" (tomato, onion, and garlic in vegetable oil with some seasonings). Now normally when I make it I triple the recipe so there's some for about 3-4 days (usually how long it keeps in the fridge), and it got to the point where I wrote down the tripled recipe so I wouldn't have to do mental math while chopping food. Now a few times when I'm making it I'm dead tired at the end of the day, and a few of the ingredients get tripled (again), so there have been times where it's super salty, or super garlic-y, and there was even a time when it was mostly onions instead of tomato. At least when I'm just making it for me, I don't have to fix my mistakes, I just run with it and try out the new "recipe"
...Can a Fan Favourite moment be a [really trimmed-down] version of 04:18 - 09:02? XD
I'm sure Stephen's shoes would look even more ridiculous next to my feet :D The other day my mom dug out a pair of boots that she bought for me when I was like 12. They fit me completely fine.
Also: this isn't a cooking story, but NASA did once lose a Mars probe worth over $100 million because the units used in the documents were measured in pounds and someone else thought they had been converted to metric...
"Welp" indeed. I've 2 similar stories, both involved making some of AB's recipes.
Story number 1, I was making some of AB's chocolate bread pudding and made a mistake about the size of the blender & pans we had. suffice to say that the end result was inedible & a waste of ingredients.
Story number 2, T'was making some of AB's Cocoa Mix (Do you see a pattern) and on the final step, adding some cayenne pepper to taste, I added to much. Not enough to make it completely unusable, but enough to make it too spicy to have as often as I would have liked and most of it ended up going to waste.
Suffice to say that I haven't made those recipes again since, though I generally don't have an issue following a recipe, just seem to have trouble in the less than direct instructions or eyeballing sizes.
I had a somewhat similar experience but in the form of misreading. I was making my mother peanut butter pancakes and it called for a good but of baking powder, but I somehow ended up grabbing salt... Yeah, my mom took a bite and 5 seconds later freaked out at how salty they were 😅
i like how this vlog looks
I think...this is the best birthday vlog Stephen has put out. Gotta love misreading Grandpa. 😂
I get made fun of all the time for this, as it's happened on numerous occasions. The one I'm most often reminded of is making Gordon Ramsay's Sweet and Sour Peppers and Onions. I don't remember how exactly my brain processed it, but instead of using 3 Tablespoons of Red Wine Vinegar, I used 3 cups. That is 16 times the amount of vinegar and nowhere near comfortable for human consumption.
I make sure to underline every measurement in recipes now.
Aww, Keppy
I think those are called green anoles? I love those little guys. They're /adorable/. They get into the clinic occasionally (along with the odd small snek, spider, or cricket) and I'm literally the only one who will go catch em and take em outside.
So cooking mistakes. I was making chicken parm one night and had everything set out. Chicken was cleaned, marinara sauce was ready, breading station all set up. I breaded my chicken properly which took /a while/, poured the sauce and grated the cheese...and realised /I forgot to fry the oh-so-carefully breaded chicken before putting the sauce on it/. I baked it anyways but it was /not/ great XD;;;;
My favourite mistake (and by "favourite" I mean "the bane of my kitchen existance") is when I want to double a recipe, and then part way through the ingredient list, I forget to double the written amounts, so part of the ingredients are doubled and the rest are the regular amount and if I don't catch the mistake in time before it goes into the pan or oven, everything is just... ruined XP
Times I've done this. Let's see. I added too much dark cocoa powder to homemade oreos and they were quite dry (still good). I once made to little pie crust for apple pie, had to made more while the 90% finished pie just sat there. And the various times where I was scaling a recipe up or down and accidentally added too much of one ingredient. The Baking Gamer has made many a mistake in the kitchen.
Home made oreos exist?
@@doan2300 Yes. Tasty has a recipe of them. They're pretty good. tasty.co/recipe/homemade-oreos
One time my friend and I made egg drop soup ! It was awesome until we added two table spoons of white pepper instead of teaspoons !
This is a story about one of the worst things I've ever eaten and comes courteous of my father. When I was a kid my family went camping every summer, mom was always the one who packed up all the food and dad did most the cooking, which in retrospect is how it all went wrong. So one year we get to our site get everything set up followed by a light dinner then go to bed, next morning as usual we wake up to the smell of bacon and eggs (dad's an early riser so always had breakfast on the go before anyone else in the camp ground was awake). All seems normal as the rest of us stumble out of the tents, in various states of preparedness and set the table, sit down butter the toast, pour the OJ , plate up our food and take a big ol bite of our scrambled eggs all of which are immediately spite out!
See my dad makes eggs kind of like Stephen, low and slow with salt/pepper little bit of hot sauce except at the time instead of butter he used oil, which for camping was stored in an unlabeled container. Not usually an issue except this morning dad was up before the sun and in his haste to get things going and out of courtesy for our neighbours didn't turn on any lights save the one directly over the stove. All of this combined meant he didn't realize he'd grabbed the dish soap (Sunlight for those curious why the colour wasn't a tip off) instead of the oil, he hadn't stirred it enough nor had the light to get anything besides semi normal frothing and dear mother nature combined with his coffee covered the odd smell. That aside let me tell you there is not much worse then soapy lemony spicy eggs bubbling up in your mouth first thing in the morning.
Lesson of the story kids as my family and I have stressed to my father ever since, ALWAYS label your cooking ingredients and wait for the actual Sun to light up your food .
Solution: make everything taco seasoned. Sandwiches? They're tacos now. Burritos? Definitely tacos. Pancakes? Taco-pancake, here we come!
If it makes you feel better. I have a recipe that calls for a 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes. When my grandmother went to go make it she used 1/4-cup red pepper flakes. She had to scrape some off.
wow I can't believe you even went through the trouble to make it exactly 8 tablespoons I probably would of just given up at that point
I've done this so many times lol.
But there was a one-time when I was doing the opposite so I was cutting a recipe in half and I was making fried chicken so I made half the flower but then put the normal amount of seasoning I had very very spicy chicken it was almost inedible
I messed up 0.5 dl and 1.5 dl once or twice when baking, causing the entire thing to just fall together in the oven. When I saw it happen, I just looked at the recipe and thought "...oh. Oops." It has been over a decade since it happened last, and ever since, I make sure to be sure how much I should put in.
I once had to quadruple a recipe for a sauce, and only quadrupled a few of the ingredients, including the beef broth. So it ended up almost being half beef and half chicken. It worked out in the end and was really good though
First, this was hilarious. And second, any mistake where the end result is an unexpectedly large supply of taco seasoning, how bad can that mistake really be? You learned to be more careful with teaspoons vs. tablespoons, and you got extra taco seasoning. That's a win-win right there.
Now I'm wondering what the other ingredients were xD for the seasoning
I mean at some point during cooking I'd be like "wait, did I read that right??" too lol
It's a win win !! Lifetime supply of taco seasoning.
Ok I got one Stephen in middle school my dad and I were making a pizza cookie to take into school when my dad asked me to spray the pizza pan with Pam but what I didn't know is my uncle bought a garlic Pam with the normal Pam and guess which one I grabbed. Needless to say we had to start over but at least we caught it before we baked it.
What a mundane yet hilarious predicament, this vlog made me grin a lot
Don't worry, just pretend you bought taco seasoning from costco!
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, you’re putting your shoe on. Quit talking to the audience and tie them daddy. I must play.”😍😆🐈⬛
I think the real problem is tablespoons and teaspoons are dumb measurements. tbsp and tsp look far too similar.
Do you know what happens when you put 1.25 cups of flour in cookies instead of 2.25 cups? You get one very flat, scrapable cookie sheet instead of a dozen eatable cookies.
Guess Mal had her own Hightail Lizard misadventures IRL, lol
on today's episode of stephen accidentally does something monumentally stupid and extremely hilarious
one time i had to add half a cup of milk for some hot chocolate. I added two cups instead because when I saw the 1/2, i only focused on the 2 and ended up with really diluted chocolate milk.
would not recommend
I made a similar mistake when making biscuits so I ended up making double the amount the biscuits...which wouldn't be a problem except I was making for 2 and one recipe made 8 biscuits...so we had 16 biscuits. Sigh...we ended up having to freeze half of them. I felt so dumb lol.
I feel like the "taco season incident" is just a little bit of Stephen's mother coming through. He went to make something with "a little extra" and made enough to supply another quarantine
Did not expect to see Stephen loose a little bit of sanity today.
"Shoelaces?! STRING? ATTACK!"
the 17th (yesterday) was my birthday, nice to see what y’all did :)
Ah me too! Happy belated birthday
@@Luffz omg you too! always happy to meet new people with the same birthday as me
I had a similar situation where I was making chocolate cookie-brownies with my 7 year old nephew, and I gave him the ingredient list and asked him to measure out the flour and chocolate powder. There was supposed to be 2 cups of flour and a cup and a half of chocolate powder. The bowl ended up having 2 cups of flour and “eleven half cups” of chocolate powder, because that’s what he read 1 1/2 to be. I didn’t catch the mistake until after we baked them. They turned out .... fine, just overpowered chocolate brownie under a normal sugar cookie.
But look on the bright side, you guys won’t have to worry about running out of taco seasoning anytime soon.
So I worked in industrial kitchens for years and now as a result, whenever I cook, I can only make enough for an army. I can't do personal sizes or just enough for four people. It's enough for twenty or more or just myself. No in-between.
Oh no the Hightail Lizard ran away! 3:17
When ever I make taco seasoning its allways in bulk
I'm curious to know now, what is your taco seasoning recipe?
I had a simliar experience with flower and my cooking class i had 4 years ago, I was thickening a soup and I read 4 cups of flower instead of a 1/4 cup of flower so I had this super thick soup it was inedible I felt so bad for me team but hey at least it is a good story.
I remember when I first started cooking my sister and I had attempted to make a meatloaf and oh boy we didn’t add nearly enough seasoning and the fact that we forgot to get breadcrumbs and had instead just used regular bread wasn’t that wise of a decision but I still ate it mostly because no else would but it wasn’t inedible just a bit bland
Thank you for making me laugh, and for making a good day great!
Today I learned that three teaspoons equals a tablespoon.
When i was a kid i was trying to make mac n cheese, and for some reason i read 1/3 cup of water as a cup and a third, so i ended up eating flavorless macaroni because i had dumped the cheese packet in already.
Also as an adult i tended to make homemade pizza a lot and had some fun mishaps, first i forgot salt entirely and had really bland dough, then i forgot salt until it was already doughy, and the salt couldn't incorporate very well making the dough extra salty, i misread the sauce recipe and used double the chicken broth (that one actually turned out really good and is my go to (especially since we use bullion cubes to make the chicken broth now and the current measurement is exactly how much you're expected to get from a bullion cube)). And one time i managed to forget to put pepperonis on the pizza (we eat pepperoni and black olive pizza), and somehow no one noticed anything aside from it tasting a little different, i only realized that i had forgetted the next day when i was looking at the leftovers
One time i made homemade banana bread and used pancake mix instead of flour not seeing the flour out for me already
There is a new item now our store, it's here for a limited time. It's Steven's taco seasoning!
Oh lord do I have a few to help out. First I was making a sauce that asked for what basically amounted to about 1/8 a packet of cholula, yeah I put in the entire packet and the sauce was basically just cholula. I think the best one is I was warming up some cinnamon rolls I had baked the day before. My friend suggested I just put them in for 20 seconds to just warm them up.
I put them in for 2 minutes. No one wants hard cinnamon rolls