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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/StrollingUnderStars on 2024-11-04 20:30:44+00:00.

Partner of the main user here, I don’t have reddit but he thinks you’ll get a laugh out of this.

So my partner bought me the Stardew Valley cookbook for my birthday and we’ve been doing recipes from it for a while now. With Halloween just behind us, we decided to use one of the pumpkins we picked to make the pumpkin soup recipe.

The problem started with measurement translation. We’re UK based but the recipe has cups and lbs, not the grams and mls were used to. As a result, I had the converter up on my phone and just started converting everything in advance.

Now, I’ve never used apple cider vinegar in a recipe before, so I didn’t have a reference for what’s normal. With all the prior measurements in cups, I got carried away. I misread 1 1/2 tbls as cups. Yes, instead of around 20ml of apple cider vinegar, I put in over 350ml. As the soup reduced, the smell of vinegar filled the house, I just thought it was boiling off quite fast.

Mistake number 2, I didn’t try the soup before serving it up. So there we are, bf and I sitting down to dinner and after a couple of mouthfuls, the unmistakable sour burning coats my mouth. That’s when he gets up and double checks the recipe and spots my mistake. He’s laughing it off and I feel awful that I ruined our dinner. Guess I’ll try again later in the week, plenty of pumpkin to still go through.

I’ll let my bf (main user) take over from here while I make myself some chicken nuggets.

So yeah, dinner was a struggle. Unlike my gf, I actually finished the soup. I was hungry and couldn’t be arsed to cook something else. My stomach ache is currently telling me that might have been a mistake. To be fair, my partner is usually a great cook, just a lapse in concentration on her part. But I will be a more observant sous chef next time we try this recipe.

TL;DR: used almost 20x the amount of apple cider vinegar while making pumpkin soup. Dinner was ruined and the house stinks of vinegar.