some people have a substitution problem

[honigfrosch]

I cooked something last week and, no joke, there was some nitwit in the comments talking about how she subbed beef for pork, left out the soy sauce, made any number of other changes, and then gave the recipe one star because it didn't taste good? YOU DIDN'T MAKE THE RECIPE, BRENDA. You made whatever other unholy concoction of ground beef and ditch water you described in your comment.

Context is pshaw_raven being a wiz in the kitchen.

Comments

[definitely_not_an_alb]

A lot of people don't actually substitute, too. Like, 'I want something puttanesca-esque, but I'm out of sardelles, so I'll use oystersauce' is substitution, 'I left out the soy sauce and 2/3 of the spices and added rosemary instead' isn't. Like, this is just bad cooking! You read a recipe and didn't understand which part of it does what and how, and then you went and fucked it up! The original author isn't responsible for other's being bad cooks, though.

[honigfrosch]

Yeah, that's what I don't get - if you want to go overboard and ruin a dish, sure, but don't blame the poster of the original recipe!