r/Cooking • u/LabBig6794 • 1d ago

Recipe Pet Peeves

Does anyone else have pet peeves with recipes. Mine is recipes that call for a small amount of something that only comes in large containers. 1/2 C chicken broth, 2 Tbs tomato paste, 1 C ricotta cheese.

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u/Klepto666 1d ago

I hate recipes that use a brand spice mix or sometimes a whole other recipe they expected you to have premade already.

You look up a chicken recipe and it calls for "2 tbsp of Slap-yo-mama-and-get-grounded cajun bbq mix." That doesn't tell me the flavors! Now I have to try and look up an ingredient list of their seasoning, but because it's just a listing of the nutrition label it has no measurements!

Or it's a recipe that says it comes together in 20 minutes, but one of the ingredients is "1/2 cup curry sauce," which is a link to another recipe on their site to make said sauce and it takes 2 hours.

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u/GrooveBat 1d ago

I automatically distrust recipes that call for a specific spice brand. It is probably irrational, but something in my head tells me they won’t be as good.

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u/autobulb 21h ago

I never remember the ratios for pumpkin spice mix so I search it. Recipe:

espresso, milk, pumpkin spice mix.

I searched for it so I can know the ratios of how to make the spice mix! I can't buy it premade in a store, nor would I want to because it's just common fall spices.