easy to most
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
United States
September 3, 2012 6:14am CST
A discussion reminded me about there being simple things that most everyone knows how to make and near foolproof. I have trouble with making rice krispy treats and jello those are the two I mess up. Usually my rice rispy treats are always gooey and not solid. Jello I'm not good at either it doesn't get very solid for me either and I don't have the patience for it to set *LOL*
Is there anything that is considered easy to make but the odds never seem to be in your favor of it turning out?
2 people like this
14 responses
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
7 Sep 12
I try something once and if it doesn't turn out I never try it again. To answer your question I tried to make fudge as a teenager and it didn't turn out so I never tried it again.
@vidhyaprakash_2 (7116)
• India
4 Sep 12
Hi friend, good to hear about your cooking activities, a lot of things are easy to ear, but it really need patience to make, most of the cocking things are in this sort, we may think it is easy to prepare, but only the person whoever cocked it will know about the difficulties
@peavey (16936)
• United States
3 Sep 12
I have a really hard time making cinnamon rolls. Everyone who bakes tells me they're easy, but I think they're just trying to make me feel bad.
I have baked breads, cakes and cookies all my life (or so it seems) but to this day I cannot make a decent cinnamon roll. I quit trying and now just buy them.
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
4 Sep 12
my rice crispy treats never quite work out, either. I add too many marshmallows and they're too gooey, or I put in too few marshmallows and they're hard and dry.
@leeloo (1492)
• Portugal
4 Sep 12
I have a problem with jelly too, for some reason I always end up with a skin at the bottom of undissolved jelly and it is thick and tastless, I found that if I use vegetable based gelatine I don't have the problem and it sets in half the time, sometimes it does not even need to go to the fridge to set. The so called easy things are always what seems to be the most difficult to perfect though. My omelets are rarely perfect and I have tried different techniques, well I suppose not everyone can make everything. The annoying thing is making what is considered a difficult dish easily and not being able to do the easy things.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
4 Sep 12
I have not tried making rice crispies. But the jello, hmmm....it has been a long time. I think I did it okay. I made different flavored jello. then when they have hardened, i cut them into cubes. I mixed all colored jello and placed it on a bowl. I then mix cream and sugar with a plain jello that is warm enough to be poured over the hardened jello. Then I let it sit on the refrigerator for at.least an hour. We call it Cathedral Window.
Once, I tried making banana cupcakes. But I guess, baking is really not for me. The cupcakes were hard when i took it out of the oven.
@shaggin (73229)
• United States
3 Sep 12
I can make Jello easily but dont put it in an aluminum bowl or anything it makes it take twice as long for it to set. You have to have patience or it will be all runny lol. Just follow the directions for how much water to add and let it set in the fridge as long as your supposed to and it will be perfect.
I have never actually made rice krispy treats. My husband used to make them for himself all the time but my kids cant have rice so I never make them.
What I cannot make no matter what is brownies. My oven is very old and gives me a really hard time. I have to rotate whatever I'm cooking every 10 minutes and I have to keep turning the heat up and down because the temperature doesnt stay where you set it. No matter when I have made brownies they will be hard around the edges and not done in the middle. I gave up on them after about 5 times and now if I want brownies for a party I just buy them from a bakery already made.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
3 Sep 12
Scrambled eggs. Mine always end up runny. And bacon.. I can't fry it to save my life, it just ends up burned no matter what I do. I bake it in the oven now and it comes out perfect, but I can't fry it. Hubby likes it better baked anyways, so it's all good.
@dainy1313 (2370)
• Leon, Mexico
3 Sep 12
It happened to me with the cookies, they were always too hard to bite. So what I did is to cook them half of the time I used to. I take them out of oven even if they are a little bit raw. When they cool they get harder.
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
3 Sep 12
I've never made either of those. The latter is not something I would eat, and I would have to trouble myself to track down vegan marshmallows and organic, GMO-free rice krispie-type cereal in order to make the former--not worth it, as far as I'm concerned.
The only thing I've ever really had trouble with that should have been easy was using the old bread machine (long since deceased now) to make bread. If I baked the bread in the machine, it would either be tasty but flat or beautiful but inedible. If I just let the machine mix the dough, took it out and baked it in the oven, it would turn out nicely; same is true if I performed the entire process by hand. I place more of the blame on the machine than on myself with that one, though. It was a very old machine; I think I would have a better relationship with a newer one, if I can ever find room in the budget for one that I'd like.
@natliegleb (5175)
• India
3 Sep 12
i have seen so many like making cupcakes and even chocolate creams are easy for many,but for some its real tough and they slug it out
@moulee87 (320)
• India
3 Sep 12
Hi, it is really easy to make rice krispy! Take a glass of rice in cooker and take a glass of water in the same glass and place the cooker with this content on stove. Keep maximum heat and make the cooker to leave 4 whistle sound, It will make a krispy rice. Note that if the eater content is more than 200%, rice will be like steamed rice! Whats the side dish that you like to have?