# My culinary -- ahem -- "experiment" was a success! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-culinary-ahem-experiment-was-a-success/443856 "2008-04-03T23:11:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-culinary-ahem-experiment-was-a-success/443856/1 "2008-04-03T23:11:20Z")
My husband asked me to make cornbread tonight to go with the bean soup. Because we’re both trying to watch our diets, I decided to use Egg Beaters instead of a whole egg, and I cut the amount of oil in half. But, that, dear Dopers, was not the extent of my, um, experiment. I went on and added the liquid to the dry ingredients. As I was stirring it, it seemed kind of thin to me. “Hmmm,” I thought. “Did I measure the Egg Beaters incorrectly?” I blithely spooned the somewhat runny batter into the corn stick pan. After they’d been in the oven about 5 minutes, I realized. I had never added the flour. The recipe calls for 1 1/4 cup cornmeal, 3/4 cup flour. I warned the family that the corn bread might be a bit odd because of the lack of flour, but I thought it would be tolerable for crumbling into soup. And you know what? We all really liked it! It was chewy and pleasantly whole-grainy, not as crumbly as regular cornbread, but by no means rock-hard or weird. This may become a standard now. Anybody else had a culinary mistake turn into a triumph? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-culinary-ahem-experiment-was-a-success/443856/2 "2008-04-03T23:35:20Z")
Sounds like you sorta made grits. I can see that being good. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-culinary-ahem-experiment-was-a-success/443856/3 "2008-04-03T23:46:20Z")
[QUOTE=Omniscient] Sounds like you sorta made grits. I can see that being good. [/QUOTE] It _was_ kinda like baked grits – and I loves me some grits! ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-culinary-ahem-experiment-was-a-success/443856/4 "2008-04-04T01:20:20Z")
Not wanting to get the thread off track, but what are Egg Beaters? ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-culinary-ahem-experiment-was-a-success/443856/5 "2008-04-04T01:28:46Z")
[QUOTE=GreedySmurf] Not wanting to get the thread off track, but what are Egg Beaters? [/QUOTE] Sorry about that! They are a U.S. product – egg whites in a carton, more or less. ---
**Author:** ![JustThinkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@JustThinkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustThinkin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-culinary-ahem-experiment-was-a-success/443856/6 "2008-04-04T01:52:33Z")
I was making truffles and the chocolate siezed. Damn. So I got out a brownie recipe I liked and sorta . . . faked the portions to match the amount of chocolate, cream, and butter I had in the truffles. The brownie recipe didn’t call for cream at all. Best. Brownies. Ever. I keep thinking I’d like to try and recreate it, but the ungodly amount of fat . . .