Cooking websites are a trap!
Looking for a recipe on how to make a quick meal? Well, first of all, here is a tale and a half about how the blogger got into cooking, which of their ancestors also loved cooking, and how they learned how to cook this dish.
Then it’s the ingredients, and then finally…there’s the procedure. Fortunately, some bloggers understand the need for a “jump to recipe” button.
But this isn’t a rant about short stories on websites or wastage of ingredients.
Rather, it is about the new trend that calls for recipe fails. Basically, it’s following a recipe and making sure you do fail so your reel can be comedic and generate more likes.
We may be known as the “lazy” generation, but here’s the truth: we are also the generation that is multi-tasking like crazy and then being rewarded with labels such as “disorganized” or “lacking focus” or “hopeless”.
There’s too much to do and very little time to prove your skills. We are constantly fighting a volatile economy, less income, and complicated relationships, and the one thing we all want is something easy. Something that doesn’t require us to use all of our brain cells and energy.
Food. It shouldn’t be so complicated, right? It should be delicious yet, at the same time, easy to make because of the time constraints. And so we all fall for the trap of easy cooking or baking ideas that promise positive results.
All you need is a waffle iron and a boiled potato. Except these videos purposely don’t give you all the details. How soft should the boiled potato be? Should the waffle iron be greased? Does it require pre-heating or not?
So while the video shows the creator munching happily on their potato waffle, you’re stuck with a mess to clean and no food.
The worst recipes are those that call for fancy character-based breads. Like bread but want it to look like you’re eating your favorite character’s face? Here, try this recipe.
And you do it, of course. It takes you an hour, but you have been promised a warm slice of bread, and you’ve already set out your butter so that it is the perfect temperature when it goes on your bread.
Except the bread doesn’t rise the way it should. The extra ingredients you added to make it look like the character messed up the recipe, and the result is raw dough that is burnt and blotchy.
Recipe fail!
You think it will be amusing to post it online, only to be barraged by mean comments about how people are starving all over the world, and you are wasting ingredients.
So now you are starving, and your feelings are hurt.
So…what is the point of picking a recipe that is guaranteed to fail?
The point is that you live in a bubble of hope where things turn out the way you want them to, and even with your very low income, you think you can make a nice meal out of it.
But when that bubble pops, because you followed a viral trend, you are left with a messy kitchen and a growling stomach.
Order cheap takeout instead?
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