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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/luckyclucks on 2025-04-27 01:13:13+00:00.

So I decided to try out a new recipe from NYT cooking as I usually do since their recipes are easy enough to follow and are flexible enough to where I can add or sub stuff in if needed. Well, I usually am confident enough in the kitchen to follow a recipe with it in front of me without looking too too closely. I just keep the recipe in front of me to make sure I’m cooking in the right order. Well today I wanted to try out this chipotle-honey chicken tacos that is all made in an instant pot, since it looked like I can just throw everything into the instant pot and its done. Well here’s where I highkey fucked up. So in the ingredients list, it listed canned chipotles in adobo, so when I went out to get groceries to make the recipe, I got two cans of chipotles in adobo. The thing is, it said “1 to 4 canned chipotles in adobo, finely chopped, plus 2 tablespoons adobo sauce,” my brain went “oh okay, put both cans into the pot.” So I dumped two full cans of chilies plus the sauce that they were in with two pounds of chicken, when the recipe was made for 1 1/2 pounds of chicken. The thing was that I didn’t realize how spicy it was until the second taco I ate… Once the second taco hit my tongue, everything went into flames. I love spicy food, but this just was way way way too spicy, but did I finish all four tacos? Yes. Will I be eating the rest of the chicken over the next week? Yes. Did I immediately try to make it less spicy by adding sugar and acid into it? Yes. Will it still be spicy? Hopefully not.

If anyone wants to actually try the recipe, because it was delicious, my fuck up just made it way spicier than intended. It’s from NYT Cooking and it’s called “Pressure Cooker Chipotle-Honey Chicken Tacos.” Kinda new to posting on reddit so idk if links are okay or not.

TL;DR Didn’t read a recipe closely enough, added two WHOLE cans of chilies instead of 1-4 individual chilies.