Funny

Except they don't tell you that they did something different and you have to spend half an hour just figuring that out.

Click the start button. The start button. It's on the bottom left. Yes, click it. You already clicked it? Don't click it again! You clicked it again? Okay, click it again. Now on the fly out click control panel. Wait, you clicked the start button again? Okay click it again. You know what? Fuck this shit, I quit.

This might be the most rational comment I've ever read on Lemmy.

Hats off for putting in the effort, thank you.

Yep. Applesauce can be used as a replacement for oil in cakes and some quick breads. I've done it on the rare occasion I've been short of cooking oil for a cake. Don't think I've ever swapped it in for all the oil though. It does give a bit different texture and flavor, I find it kind of pleasant myself. And youy will need to probably bake the cake for a bit longer too. YMMV based on your oven.

I personally would not use applesauce to fry in though. But perhaps Flying Squid's mother should experiment for use and they can report back to us on the results.

That sub was hilarious! So many weird substitutions and people having no idea what the ingredients do for the final result. I actually learned a lot about cooking from that sub.

I wish idiots making stupid substitutions were normally that self-correcting!

full fat, full sugar

Full fat, yes, but not full sugar. We cut the sugar to like 1/3 in most recipes and it usually comes out great. Most recipes I've seen use way too much sugar.

Fat is way more filling than carbs for the same amount of calories, so don't shy away from the fat. If you load up on fat and fiber, you'll feel more satisfied on less calories, so you're much less likely to sneak a taste of that sugary treat and totally reverse all the good you've been trying to do with reducing calories.

Have you met people?

My dad is one of them. Always says that stuff does not matter. I once asked him if he followed the instructions closely and said yes. I did not believe him and so asked every point in the list individually. For every every instruction he told me that he didn't do that.

 Behavior |  Reasonableneses |

|----------|-----------------------------------| | Substituting applesauce | 8/10 | | One-starring the recipe because it didn't work out | 0/10 |

Lol "I followed the instructions exactly except I had my toddler vomit into the gas tank instead of using gas. Why won't it work!? 0/5 stars."

Instructions unclear, I substituted the car with applesauce, but it failed to properly start up or support passengers boarding, ★☆☆☆☆

Baking is as much of an art as cooking is. It is just much less complacent with mistakes.

As soon as you get the notion of what to mix to achieve a given result, or which technique produces another, you can start throwing things together and see what comes out.

I burned, fumbled and messed up my share of cooking/baking and I regret nothing.

Supposedly, but I assume you have to be familiar with baking with applesauce, and not just read somewhere that apple sauce can replace "oil, butter, or eggs" and just shoot for the moon.

Blood can also be used as a substitute in baking. Pretty sure it's in lieu of eggs. Not curious enough to ruin a perfectly good batch of brownies though :(

They are replacing some of the sugar with it, not the fat. I'm a fan of both normal and the applesauce variants, but you need to understand the science behind the normal ingredients before you swap them out for others. Baking is science.