A good cook knows that recipes can be often treated as guidelines. However, many a bad cook has a similar line of thinking, just with a vastly different outcome. Now, knowing you are a bad cook is one thing, but a poor craftsperson will blame their tools, up to and including recipes.
The “I Didn’t Have Eggs” online community gathers the bewildering and somewhat infuriating online recipe reviews of people who for some ungodly reason decided to make terrible ingredient substitutions, then went online to rant about the recipe. So get comfortable, upvote the best (or worst) posts, and comment your thoughts below.
#1 This Guy Gets It
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#2 Cindy Is Tired Of Your Questions
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#3 “4 Cups Of Apple Cider Vinegar To 2 Bottles Of Wine Was Absurd.” Yes It Was
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#4 Substitution Poetry!
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#5 The Best Review Yet
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#6 I Wish You Would Shut Up
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#7 No Mention Of Corn In A Mexican Crema Recipe
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#8 Reading This One Activated My Flight Or Fight Response
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#9 Big Brain Baking
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#10 I Haven’t Made It Yet 🙄
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#11 Recipe For A London Broil Marinade. There Indeed Is No Pepsi Or Coke
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#12 Oh Kimica 🤦learn To Understand Directions Please
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#13 Yes, Cumin Beef Tastes Like Cumin
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#14 This Was On A Recipe For Peach Ice Cream
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#15 Thanks For Your Life Story!
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#16 Christopher Has Had Enough Of Reading About Other People’s Substitutions
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#17 Do You Even Know What A Potato Is? 1 Star!
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#18 I’m Not Sure If This Counts But It Made Me Laugh
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#19 Geoffrey Doesn’t Like Full English Breakfast
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#20 This Bourbon Chicken Recipe Review
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#21 “The Recipe Is Bad Because I Undercooked It” Absolute Savage Response
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#22 I’m Better At Traditional Chinese Cooking Than The Traditional Chinese Cook
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#23 Why Do You Have This Much Free Time??
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#24 This Recipe For Thanksgiving Stuffing
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#25 I Found This Gem On A Caramel Ice Cream Recipe And I Am So Glad I Did
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#26 Things Are Getting Tense In This Banana Bread Recipe’s Comments Section
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#27 Ritzchef Is All Of Us
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#28 Amy Out There Fighting The Good Fight
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#29 This Person Added An Unnecessary Egg And Got Mad The Cake Was Ruined
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#30 On A Post For A Homemade Peach Cake
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#31 Amber Doesn’t Bother To Read, And Gets Schooled By The Recipe’s Author
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#32 On A Recipe For Vegan Peanut Butter Frosting
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#33 French Toast. With Tortilla. And Aquafaba. And Cumin
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#34 No Substitutions (As Far As We Know) But A Wild Ride
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#35 Can I Make The Sugar Spread Without Sugar?
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#36 Just Devastated That Mayonnaise Doesn’t Make Good Frosting. But I Still Ate It
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#37 Translation: It’s A Frittata, You Twit
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#38 Recipe Is Missing Peanut Butter
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#39 When Recipes On The Internet Should Know That You’re Prediabetic, And Should Reflect As Much
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#40 So Tasty It Sent My Dog To The Hospital. Definitely The Recipe’s Fault. One Star
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#41 Baking Soda, Baking Powder. Potato Potahto
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#42 Big Hot Oil Mess
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#43 Didn’t Read Directions, Got Food Poisoning
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#44 What Happened Here Is Truly A Mystery
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#45 I Think They Should Reread Their Review
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#46 I Didn’t Follow The Directions
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#47 Not The Recipe’s Fault
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#48 Cindy Is Not Happy About The Use Of Eggs In Baked Goods
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#49 On A Vegan Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
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#50 Recipe Calls For 1 Teaspoon Of Red Chili Paste
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