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Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes (www.cubbyathome.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/cooking@lemmy.world
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During the previous round of shirkflation I warned people about knowing what year a recipe was from because "a can" means something different in 2004 than in 2010. And now it means something different again in 2025.

Now boxes are getting the shrink treatment too.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/618032

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You must do some high stakes cooking. I always tweak recipes, sometimes even if I've never made it before.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sometimes it doesn't matter much, sometimes it does. There are probably some recipes I'd give a go. But really, it doesn't actually come up all that often. I think a lot of people have converted cans in old recipes to actual measurements before posting online.

    My family doesn't really have any recipes they passed down. Pretty sure they did everything by feel.

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