Extreme Baking Guilt...
Posted by xxLExx on Sep 04, 2007 · Member since Sep 2005 · 83 posts
This morning I tried to make banana bread, but I made the mistake of using stevia for sweetner. It turned out HORRIBLE. It tasted totally bitter and over-stevia'ed and just DISGUSTING. I tried everything to cover up the bad taste, but nothing worked. I had to throw out all the batter.
Now I am feeling EXTREMELY GUILTY. I feel like a horrible person. I just threw out like 4 bananas, at least a cup of flour & cereal, etc, etc. I feel like such a bad person now for wasting perfectly good food.
I like can't live with myself for throwing out all of those ingredients....
Does anyone else ever feel this way? Or am I just psycho?
Your just not a wasteful person but things do happen. Don't worry about it.
I ALWAYS feel bad when I have to through out food =(...but if its bad...its bad boooo. But then you learn and next times you do it, it just taste better and better :)
yeah, i FORCE myself to eat crap all the time. ha ha. i figure 'at least it's healthy and i would eat all this stuff otherwise'... but i do recall throuwing something out recently because it was sooo bad.
i do the same thing with fruits and veggies. i eat things most people would say are past their prime :-\
Don't feel bad..it happens.
I made a black bean soup not too long ago that I tried to "hide" a beet in (because I hate beets, yet feel that I should eat them because they are good for me). I added half of my spice cabinet and lots of other things (like a can of coconut milk) to "save it" and make it edible. Never saved it. I kept it for a few days, then tried to give it to the dogs, who wouldn't eat it, so I let it go bad.
It became purple compost :)
and give yourself a point for the effort of trying to find a way to decrease unnecessary sugar from a homemade baked good. You can't learn without a few spoils, right?
well, that's happened to me more than I'd like to admit. only recently have baking recipes been working ok. don't worry about it - it happens to the best of us (and the worst of us - at baking).
mmm. banana bread.
Yep. Yep. and Yep.
I feel terrible and depressed when I make something that doesn't turn out as planned... let alone if I have to toss it...
Even if i'm experimenting and I know it might not be good I'm still disappointed. :(
For the future:
I read that when stevia-ing you have to add and mix then taste the batter every 1/8 tsp!
Crazy huh?
I still make a horrible stevia mistake with a rhubarb tart.
Stevia is my nemisis. I want to use it so badly but it almost always turns out bad... >:(
I will conquer it... I must!
I don't feel bad about throwing out food that tastes bad. Over the years, if I had eaten my mistakes, I would not be the good cook I am today, for I would not have wanted to cook. ;)
It's heartbreaking that people starving on this planet & in our own country, too! When we find canned veggies on sale, we buy a few extra cans. When our local holiday food bank opens, we already have a a few bags to donate. My local HFS has organic canned beans on sale for 99¢ a can through the end of September. ;) We bought ten cans & 4 went into the contribution bag. We'll be back for more before the month's end.
JenniferHughes, you said, "Stevia is my nemisis." ;D I used to say that about flax used as egg replacement. I have finally given up on it. Nothing I bake where I use flax as the egg replacer is any good. It has the weirdest texture. I hope you are more successful with stevia! ;)
I don't feel bad when this happens to me. Mainly because I look at it very logically - whatever is in my fridge will not be feeding anyone except me. So, whether I eat it or it goes to waste due to a cooking experiment gone bad - either way, no one who is starving would have gotten it.
What DOES make me mad is when restaurants or stores throw out TONS of food in the dumpster AND they pour chemicals on it so no one can eat it. Why?! It's garbage. There are dumpster divers out there who would eat it happily - if it weren't for the chemicals poured on it.
Conversely, they could donate all that extra food to a homeless shelter or soup kitchen. I mean, they're throwing it out anyway. Why ruin it for others? I just don't understand this, and I actually had to quit working at a restaurant because it was so incredibly wasteful to me.
I guess, for me, I don't feel bad because I'm wasting food as much as I just feel like I failed. :'(
I guess, for me, I don't feel bad because I'm wasting food as much as I just feel like I failed. :'(
Haha, yep...I'm still pouting about my "biscuit crackers" that I engineered last week. We're eating them, but it's just been a week long reminder that I can't bake a biscuit to save my life. (and it was your recipe, Lezly...I'm such a failure as a Southern woman). :'( My grandmother would be so disappointed.