Your Recipe is On Another Website...
Jan. 25th, 2025 01:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorWhile I will look at a lot of different recipes for inspiration, I think it's important to be careful about substitutions. A lot of times I've seen a recipe online where someone asks if they can substitute one or more of the core ingredients.
Now usually they can, but at that point what they should be doing is looking for a different recipe altogether. Because different foods prepare and cook differently. So it's a lot better to use a recipe that actually uses the ingredient they want to sub. If they cannot find such a recipe on the internet, that probably means that either 1) they need a more thorough search technique or 2) that's really not a suitable substitution and they should reconsider how they plan to adapt the original recipe.
For example, since I am a vegan who also needs to eat gluten free, I often cannot use the conventional recipe for a food. What I don't do is expect is to be able to make a simple substitution into a recipe where the original centers meat and wheat. No. Instead I find a recipe by someone who has already made the necessary substitutions. Preferably more than one so I can get a better idea of what's likely to work (since some people...make bad recipes).
Now usually they can, but at that point what they should be doing is looking for a different recipe altogether. Because different foods prepare and cook differently. So it's a lot better to use a recipe that actually uses the ingredient they want to sub. If they cannot find such a recipe on the internet, that probably means that either 1) they need a more thorough search technique or 2) that's really not a suitable substitution and they should reconsider how they plan to adapt the original recipe.
For example, since I am a vegan who also needs to eat gluten free, I often cannot use the conventional recipe for a food. What I don't do is expect is to be able to make a simple substitution into a recipe where the original centers meat and wheat. No. Instead I find a recipe by someone who has already made the necessary substitutions. Preferably more than one so I can get a better idea of what's likely to work (since some people...make bad recipes).