Comment by _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works on I can't believe it tastes different

Applesauce is a totally acceptable replacement for oil right?

Supposedly, but I assume you have to be familiar with baking with applesauce, and not just read somewhere that apple sauce can replace “oil, butter, or eggs” and just shoot for the moon.

Wait, really? I was joking, that seems like it would not do any of the things that something like oil or butter would do when baking something.

It can work pretty well, usually in baked good that have a high moisture content like banana bread. It is certainly not a 1/1 substitute. Best practice is to follow a known recipe, or have played around enough to know what changing fat, sugar, water, levels will do. Just changing something like sugar level will change not just sweetness, but gluten formation, browning, moisture retention. It can be complex.

Reminds me of advice I got from my grandma: Cooking is a hobby, baking is science.

Nah, i do a great job of just getting stoned and winging it when i bake. People usually love it

Are these other people also stoned when they try it?

Baking is black magic.

Convince me otherwise. 😛

As an egg replacement in cakes it works okayish. Roughly one or two tablespoons per egg, but it of course depends on what you’re trying to achieve.

I sometimes replace my butter on toast with eggs with applesauce on toast with applesauce. I call it a pile of sadness.

“Mom, can we have applebutter?”

“No honey, we have applebutter at home.”

Reverse applesauce sandwich

This is probably sarcastic, but in case it’s not: Applesauce is a vegan substitute for eggs, not oil. There is no substitute for oil as many oils are already vegan. You can definitely substitute animal-based fats like butter and lard for others like coconut oil to make a recipe vegan.

Nothing can replace the blubbery taste of whale oil unfortunately.

It was sarcastic/joking, but wow I had no idea! They seem so dissimilar, I never would’ve thought that would work. Didn’t think I’d learn this much about baking today lol, thanks!

How would using lard instead of coconut oil make something vegan?

I meant the other way. Substitute out lard and substitute in coconut oil.

“Substitute X for Y” means “replace Y with X,” i.e., “for Y, use X instead.”

“Substitute X with Y” would mean “replace X with Y.”

Now, you’re going to just brag around with that knowledge of yours, and teach everyone how to write things so that things are correctly understood by the reader?

That’s a helpful goal, go on, please

I’ve heard it both ways.

(The above is 50% sincere and 50% a Psych reference.)

Yes, people sometimes say things incorrectly, like the commenter I originally replied to.

The OP graphic says “I followed the recipie exactly”, which they did not, so somehow I doubt that “facts” matter to them, who are making hyperbolic claims for emotional appeals rather than descriptive purposes.

Absolutely. 1:1 swap even so it’s odd that their dish failed.

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