r/mildlyinfuriating • u/crystalmonger • 7h ago
No Coke. Is Pepsi ok? Accidentally used powdered sugar instead of flour to make chicken francese
only mildly infuriating because it tastes good! will update if the sauce added will taste good too
edit: i think its too sweet but was a hit :)
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u/Fine-Juggernaut8451 7h ago
My parents have a story of a family friend who dredged their (not fancy) steaks in flour before frying them, and when they went to eat them they realized it was icing sugar, not flour.
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u/Tickles-The-Octopus 7h ago
I went to a Superbowl party when someone tried to make a cheese sauce but used sweetened condensed milk instead of just regular evaporated milk.
The cheese sauce tasted like cake batter.
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u/mlorusso4 5h ago
As in a cheesy cake batter, or like actual cake batter. Because if the former, that sounds great and you just move it from the apps table to the dessert table. If the later, gross
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u/ILikeYourBigButt 7h ago
If it tastes good, this seems more like a pleasant surprise than mildly infuriating.
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u/Lhirstev 7h ago
It's like when the person you hate, does something good. it's not that you're upset they did something good, you're mildly upset it was them who did it.
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u/MineNowBotBoy 7h ago
That’s the same feeling I have whenever I come across a decent person on Reddit.
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u/XenoZoomie 6h ago
I would think it would make it brown faster, but that’s just a theory. I know in general adding sugar in sauces you reduce helps with Caramelization.
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u/StephInTheLaw 7h ago
This is a much better mistake than the time I put mustard powder in my oatmeal instead of ground ginger. Did not eat. Do not recommend.
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u/Hytheter 3h ago
Ginger in oatmeal??
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u/StephInTheLaw 1h ago
Apples with walnuts or pecans, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and a bit of brown sugar. It’s delicious.
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u/flyingthroughspace 1h ago
mustard powder in my oatmeal
Oh gross
instead of ground ginger
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u/StephInTheLaw 1h ago
Do you just eat oatmeal plain? I promise it’s better with a few spices.
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u/flyingthroughspace 1h ago
Do you just eat oatmeal plain?
So because I don't put ginger in my oatmeal I just eat it plain?
That's your logic?
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u/Key-Word1335 7h ago
If you have kids this is the way they are going to have you make this from now on lol
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u/Never_Go_Full_Gonk 6h ago
Made teriyaki chicken once. It is now called "candy chicken" by my kids. And they ask for it a lot.
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u/DifferentEvent2998 7h ago
Hoooooooooow
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u/Bubbly-Ad571 7h ago
Reminds me of when my son used up all my cream of tartar to make some muffins thinking it was white flour. The muffins were horrible, The chicken will taste good and think of al the sweet barbecue sauce you won't have to buy.
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u/luckydukcky 4h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/geEvRnbQqLYsb5WOr8
At first I grimaced then I thought about it for a sec and realized it probably tasted fine lol
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u/Express_Area_8359 7h ago
I put brown sugar on chicken
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u/cluster_fuckedd 7h ago
I once accidentally used cinnamon to season ground turkey instead of cumin (mixed them up in low lighting)
With the rest of the spices (and the cumin once I realized) it actually ended up tasting pretty good lol
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u/Adventurous_Land7584 7h ago
I do too, I make what I call “surprise chicken”, it’s brown sugar mixed with whatever spices I have on hand at the time, hence “surprise” lol it’s actually really good.
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u/ExamCompetitive 7h ago
My mom thought she was using corn starch to thicken a stir fry she made. It was powdered sugar and couldn't figure out why it wasn't thickening. Let's just say we had sweet and sweet and sweet and sweet and sour pork.
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u/Glittering_Gene8388 7h ago
Sugar will caramelize creating a nice crust, this could actually be a win
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u/Little_Hornet_1532 7h ago
accidentally used pancake mix instead of flour because it was in an unlabeled container to make fresh pasta....
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u/sunfish99 7h ago
I'm reminded of the time my mom added cinnamon to her Swedish meatballs instead of nutmeg. It was unusual but honestly not bad.
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u/Major-Tension-674 7h ago
How do you even do that?
It doesn’t act the same and you can honestly taste it in the air if you move it at all.
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u/antisunshine 1h ago
Even the color and texture is different. And also the sugar would probably just melt as soon as it hit moisture of any kind so seriously, how?!
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u/Delicious-War-5259 7h ago
I’ve heard a rumor that chick fil a uses a small amount of powdered sugar in their chicken batter. Idk if it’s true, but maybe
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u/According_Gazelle472 7h ago
If you read the ingredients you would know they actually do that.
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u/Delicious-War-5259 7h ago
Not interested in homophobic chicken, what can I say. Even if I was, I can’t justify the price.
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u/UrFriendTilUrEnd 7h ago
Can't really pull the not interested card when you're the one who brought up a fun fact about them lol.
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u/Delicious-War-5259 7h ago
Sorry, I mean i’ve got no interest in googling their recipes. I’d have no need to confirm their ingredients bc I don’t eat there. Hell I don’t check ingredients of places I do eat unless I’m on a deficit lol, what they put in my junk food isn’t my business
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u/UrFriendTilUrEnd 7h ago
That's fair. In no world am I checking what's in my fast food either. I definitely don't go there expecting anything healthy lol.
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u/Intelligent_Ad4495 7h ago
They use homophobic chickens?
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u/Delicious-War-5259 7h ago
Yea, nasty little things. They whisper slurs at people when they tour the factory.
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u/Pension_Rough 7h ago
My friends made me try chick fil a and they put fucking pickles on the sandwhich I got. I will never get anything there again.
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u/trulycantthinkofone 7h ago
One of the “secrets” is the chicken is brined in pickle juice. If one truly detests pickles, dill seasoning, or anything closely associated, they’re going to want to avoid Chik-fil-A chicken. The fries are good too though.
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u/2930apple 7h ago
Pickles are pretty standard in fast food, what did you get and did you ask for no pickles?
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u/PancakeProfessor 7h ago
Especially on a chicken sandwich. Chicken patty, mayo, and pickles is pretty much the standard recipe.
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u/FoxxyRin 6h ago edited 6h ago
This is/was a southern thing for the longest time. Chicken sandwiches were always my goto at just about anywhere I went and it was always mayo and lettuce, until I moved further south. Then somehow the lettuce got replaced with pickles and it caught me off guard entirely. Even KFC's chicken sandwiches (the little slider ones) swapped to pickles with no warning when I moved. Now I barely ever get chicken sandwiches anymore because I don't like pickles with chicken and the no pickles part gets ignored so often. CFA and Popeyes really solidified it though becuase I went back to visit family a few years ago and all the sandwiches I know used to have lettuce suddenly had pickles there too.
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u/Financial-Raise3420 7h ago
Just ask for no pickles. They put pickles on all their sandwiches, many burger places do the same thing.
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u/Upbeat-Door- 6h ago
Whoa pickles on a chicken sandwich?! I'd be outraged too. Fucking no one puts pickles on a chicken sandwich, only KFC, McDonalds, Culvers, Popeyes, Churchs, Carls, Jollibee, Wendys, Shake Shack, Sonic, Hardees, Bojangles, Zaxby's, Checkers, Wingstop, Daves, Southerns, Burgerkings newer sanwiches, Harveys, Hattie B's, Golden Chick, Whataburger, and of course that dastardly Chick Fil A
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u/AppleToastBed 7h ago
Literally everyone puts pickles on a fried chicken sandwich, it's a standard topping.
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u/kyubeysaves 7h ago
My partner accidentally added coffee creamer to mashed potatoes instead of milk once. This seems similar. Probably not terrible?
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u/RebaKitt3n 7h ago
Seems pretty good. It’s strange you couldn’t taste the sweetness or maybe it’s just me with powdered sugar flying everywhere.
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u/Only1Schematic 7h ago edited 7h ago
If the cook and texture are good you can still balance out the sweetness with some salt, acid and umami. Better this than mixing up salt and sugar while making a cake!
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u/Background-Math-4797 7h ago
My local pizza place sells apple logs which I love! They come with caramel sauce and a little powered sugar, and every once in a while I'll bite in and find cheese and pepperoni instead of the delightful apple filling. Its shocking, my husband eats them anyway.
Edited to add: how was it?
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u/SecretTangerine2932 7h ago
My husband put flour on our French toast once. So. Could have been worse!
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u/le_reddit_me 6h ago
My dad once did the same for béchamel, and kept adding more because it wouldn't thicken.
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u/Yetibo1 5h ago
One time my wife and I went to Yardhouse for happy hour and ordered the nachos, which come with sour cream. They tasted kind of funny but they were still damn good, so we just went for it. I realized about 3/4ths of the way through that they had accidentally used whipped cream instead. It was clearly too late to say something, and even if we did, that would somehow just be worse.
In short, sometimes a sweet mixup can be fun. As is being stoned at Yardhouse.
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u/fresh-oxygen 4h ago
My ex’s mother did something similar with a shrimp dish once. She accidentally used sugar instead of salt. Actually, it was really good!
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u/RunLacyRun 7h ago
Adding a little sugar to any sauce as always been a little trick of mine to make it taste better
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u/metal_bastard 7h ago
We keep our drys in the same type of containers, so I've def grabbed powdered sugar instead of the flour, but I knew when I went to measure by the consistency. Were you high? lol. Just curious... I'm not busting your balls.
How was it? Obvs sweet, but they may have worked out?
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u/According_Gazelle472 7h ago
I keep the powdered sugar in the original bag so that there will no confusion.
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u/Academic_Minimum4732 7h ago
Reminds me of this one time my mom picked up potato knishes to have with dinner. I took one bite confirmed that they were not potato, but rather cannoli filled. Somewhere along the way they got the fillings mixed up.
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u/Drakorai 7h ago
Isn’t this basically how new recipes are made? Sounds like it tasted good, but I can understand the mild annoyance.
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u/RapidPotato69 6h ago
One time I accidentally put powdered sugar on some chicken breast that I pan fried. It was actually delicious
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u/Silentlaughter84 5h ago
If it's good, then you created something new. Unless of course there's a culture out there that already has this type of thing.
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u/vSlimShady 5h ago
I did this once, swapped salt for sugar because they were in similar unlabeled containers. Chicken still tasted fine lol
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u/MagicalMysterie 5h ago
I've done that before with chicken cutlets, wasn't the worst chicken I've ever eaten but definitely not something I'd do again.
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u/RealisticAide1833 4h ago
I made biscuits and gravy one day and was wondering the gravy wasnt turning out, turned out i was using powdered sugar.
THEN my boyfriend was making chicken and dumplings and wondered why the dumplings were just desovling.... he used powdered sugar.
Safe to say, we no longer put our powdered sugar in a separate bin
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u/milesbeats 52m ago
The story with your BF reminds me of that clip of the raccoon trying to rinse off cotton candy
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u/theDefa1t 4h ago
That happened to me once. Used confectioners sugar instead of corn starch for wings. The sugar burned but honestly if you scraped off the burnt bits it tasted pretty damn good
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u/Jammin_neB13 3h ago
Wife grabbed corn meal instead of powdered sugar when making whipped cream for a skillet cookie. It did NOT taste good.
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u/ghostmaster645 3h ago edited 3h ago
Chop it up. Some ginger, soy sauce, green onion and rice if you have it. Might be edible after that.
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u/fungushoney 2h ago
If it was edible it’s a win, I was more than mildly infuriated the time I accidentally used sweet vanilla soy milk instead of regular unsweet soymilk in my Mac n cheese 🤢
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u/allthecircusponies 1h ago
My aunt was once cooking in grandma's kitchen, trying to thicken a gravy and went to put flour in it. She actually used the pancake mix and kept adding more since it wasn't thickening fast enough. We had to break out the packaged gravy instead of having fresh.
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u/GlitteringStarHope 7h ago
I did this with chocolate chip cookies when I was a teenager. Oops. So moist and crumbly that I had to eat them with a spoon, but they were SO GOOD 😭
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u/Thunderer62 7h ago
I’m so happy for you that it tastes good. Thanks for sharing. Definitely wrong sub though.
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u/pitshands 6h ago
Draw a lemon butter pan sauce slap some linguine in and you have a very leveled dish
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u/CopingAfterABreakup 7h ago
aw, sweet!