# Quarantine Culinary Casualties

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarantine-culinary-casualties/850332>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 26, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarantine-culinary-casualties/850332 "2020-03-26T16:07:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarantine-culinary-casualties/850332/21 "2020-03-28T16:37:58Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Or, you know, just buy a whisk.

Oh, I’ve made lumpy gravy with a whisk! I really am that hopeless at times! I’ve even taken said lumpy gravy, poured it in a blender, and blended the shit outta it.

You get FOAMY gravy, then!

Ever used Wondra, Chef Dood?  
~VOW

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarantine-culinary-casualties/850332/22 "2020-03-28T16:46:58Z")

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My latest eff up is flour. The Daughter had some tucked away, but it ended up tasting stale.

I made dumplings with it. The texture was perfect, they just didn’t taste right. I mean, if we were starving…

I ordered flour from Sam’s Club. I didn’t want a 25-pound bag. They offered several five pound bags, so I bought those. They finally arrived.

AAARRRRGGGGHHHH! It’s gluten-free flour!

Now…returning it would be a gigantic pain in the behind, because of the “stay home, dammit” order. So I COULD use it. I desperately need help with it, though. It is a blend of “ancient grains” (whoopie) and supposedly measures 1:1.

Gluten-free searches give me recipes using combinations of crap in a single recipe, including tapioca starch and/or xanthan gum. Well, shit.

Maybe I should just return the damned stuff.  
~VOW

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Terrific](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tom_terrific/32/342_2.png) [@Tom\_Terrific](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Terrific)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarantine-culinary-casualties/850332/23 "2020-03-28T17:40:54Z")

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I order flour from King Arthur Flour. They, in the past, have been pretty quick filling orders. It seems to me that if anyone had flour it would be a manufacturer.

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