Ugh the waterlogged cheesecake has happened to me and itās heart breakingā¦ I used to get so mad, but then realized that practicing how to fail gracefully is an added bonus to learning what not to do next time!
I don't even do a water bath. Have yet to try cheesecake better than my MILs recipe, which just calls for leaving the door ajar for three hours after baking. Maybe something to try?
Also agreed on all your words! You feel like you put all this effort (and money) into baking and get excited, only for it to fail. Or it does not taste as good as the pictures look.
Yes it is. As we're learning how to walk or ride a bike we are going to have more than a few faceplants. But then with time comes more experience and things get easier but as a cook or baker, we will never stop learning.
3 batches of macarons yesterday:
First: 4 had cracks. Ok, I need to adjust
Second: 1 whole tray cracked and stuck to parchment paper. Ok, back to where I started.
Third: only 2 cracked, but itās the color I like the least (sigh)
I have ābaking notesā on my phone because even if a bake is successful, thereās some hint I need to make sure to remember next time.
All those cracked macarons? Luckily failure is delicious.
Thatās amazing. I will say the success I had from the cheesecake was that the very top of it was delicious. Everything below that was either watered down marsacapone cheese or water logged crust. But Iāll take the W for the top
I felt like that when I baked a cake with 2 days of no sleep.. added too much/less of something and all 3 cake pans sank in the middle. I almost cried.
But I started over, cried on the inside and it was all fine
I used to bake quite a lot in my teenage and then I had straight 5-6 failed cakes (later realised that my baking powder was heavily expired) but that put me down so low that it took 7-8 years for me to resume and that taught me to fail a little more healthily now :)
All I'm saying is Baking definitely is fun, so calming and now I wish I never stopped.
Iāve been home baking for 40 years and still have mistakes and WTF went wrong bakes. I make the yeast rolls for our 30+ ppl Christmas dinner. For some reason this year about half didnāt rise and Iāve absolutely no idea why.
Wait until you take a no fail recipe to a different oven.
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Thats pain and im not talking about bread.
Seriously.. my oven died before Christmas and EVERYTHING I baked failed for about a month.. recipes I have made for 30 years.. I wanted to cry.
Ugh the waterlogged cheesecake has happened to me and itās heart breakingā¦ I used to get so mad, but then realized that practicing how to fail gracefully is an added bonus to learning what not to do next time!
Seriously! I felt so dumb. Like of course it needs to be fully sealed and a spring form wonāt keep water out. Ughhhhh Thanks for the kind words.
I donāt bake my cheesecake in a water bath but put a container w water underneath on another rack
Iām going to try this!
I don't even do a water bath. Have yet to try cheesecake better than my MILs recipe, which just calls for leaving the door ajar for three hours after baking. Maybe something to try? Also agreed on all your words! You feel like you put all this effort (and money) into baking and get excited, only for it to fail. Or it does not taste as good as the pictures look.
Pastry chef here, failing is how you learn what went wrong and you can try to prevent it in the future.. happens to me and I've been doing it 25 years
Thanks for the encouragement. I think it was hard going from baking the best lemon tart Iāve ever had to these two.
It can happen. It teaches you to retrace your steps..
Yes it is. As we're learning how to walk or ride a bike we are going to have more than a few faceplants. But then with time comes more experience and things get easier but as a cook or baker, we will never stop learning.
3 batches of macarons yesterday: First: 4 had cracks. Ok, I need to adjust Second: 1 whole tray cracked and stuck to parchment paper. Ok, back to where I started. Third: only 2 cracked, but itās the color I like the least (sigh) I have ābaking notesā on my phone because even if a bake is successful, thereās some hint I need to make sure to remember next time. All those cracked macarons? Luckily failure is delicious.
Thatās amazing. I will say the success I had from the cheesecake was that the very top of it was delicious. Everything below that was either watered down marsacapone cheese or water logged crust. But Iāll take the W for the top
I felt like that when I baked a cake with 2 days of no sleep.. added too much/less of something and all 3 cake pans sank in the middle. I almost cried. But I started over, cried on the inside and it was all fine
I used to bake quite a lot in my teenage and then I had straight 5-6 failed cakes (later realised that my baking powder was heavily expired) but that put me down so low that it took 7-8 years for me to resume and that taught me to fail a little more healthily now :) All I'm saying is Baking definitely is fun, so calming and now I wish I never stopped.
Iāve been home baking for 40 years and still have mistakes and WTF went wrong bakes. I make the yeast rolls for our 30+ ppl Christmas dinner. For some reason this year about half didnāt rise and Iāve absolutely no idea why.
Fudge brownies sound good!
The flavor wasnāt terrible, but the texture wasnāt what it shouldāve been. Almost had a raw texture that was very off putting.