Mini cooking rant...

[scatteredlogic]

A mini cooking rant for an (almost) late night: When I go searching for a recipe, I use any user ratings as a guideline - the higher the rating, the more likely I am to read the recipe in full. I particularly enjoy reading the comments left by people who've actually made the recipe themselves. Usually, there's a lot of useful information in

Comments

[droxy]

pour booze on the cookies.

This made me laugh. Baking is really a chemical reaction, you can cut the sugar by half, but whole wheat cookies is just wrong. LOL

[scatteredlogic]

It just amazes me how often I see recipes rated down with a similar explanation. They basically create an entirely different recipe, then rate down the original one because their variation flopped.

Edited to add: And yes, whole wheat cookies are just very, very wrong. LOL

[juleet]

omg!! Totally something that makes me annoyed as well. Don't change the (#*(& out of a recipe then blame the recipe when it tastes like (#*&$(*&.

I'm sorry, but some people are so idiotic.

[scatteredlogic]

Exactly! They make all sorts of changes and then rate down the recipe because it didn't taste good. ~shakes head~

[sshg316]

*headdesk*

Repeat at will.

Now I want cookies, though. But definitely not whole wheat ones.

[scatteredlogic]

I know! It's just astonishing.

Hee! Nope, there's just not point in whole wheat cookies. ;P

[sshg316]

Cookies should not even attempt to be healthy. That's just ... wrong. LOL

[scatteredlogic]

~nods~ I think it defeats the whole purpose of it being a cookie in the first place.

[gmth]

LOL. Oh, man. This is why I never read user comments on any site if I can avoid it.

[scatteredlogic]

You'd think I'd know better by now. ~grin~

[brianna_aisling]

If you can respond, you ought to link them to an explanation of cause and effect, because, clearly, someone missed that day of school.

[scatteredlogic]

LOL - They definitely don't understand cause and effect. It's just amazing to see how often people post that they changed a recipe completely and then complain that the recipe is bad. ~shakes head~

[tudorpot]

At least you know why they rated it bad, how about the ones who changed the recipe- but didn't tell?

[scatteredlogic]

Well, crap. I hadn't thought of that, but yeah, I'm sure there's a certain percentage who just rate a recipe down without typing out their explanation. ~sighs~