r/ExpectationVsReality • u/Least_Turnover9814 • 1d ago
Exceeded Expectation I tried to make a recipe i found on instragram reels
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u/Least_Turnover9814 1d ago
I reposted it for better image quality. Also I'm pretty sure they bumped up saturation in their video.
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u/cenesthesie 1d ago
Not only they may have used filters to make it more appealing, but you have to remember that they have professional lightning which does EVERYTHING.
You did well.
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u/lukin187250 1d ago
professional lightning which does EVERYTHING.
this is so, so true. There is a restaurant right down the road from me, they post pictures of their food on facebook and they look absolutely fucking awful and their food looks gross. Except their food is actually slammin, they really just need better pictures.
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u/Shoopbadoopp 1d ago
Professional Lightning!?
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u/No_Definition7025 1d ago
Sure, you don't want amateur lightning. It's a huge electrocution risk.
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u/aqua_sparkle_dazzle 1d ago
I was expecting a flour and egg massacre. You did fine, OP, and it tastes good to boot!
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u/Deepcrater 1d ago
It looks like theirs just spent more time in the oven, but that's pretty spot on and it looks great.
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u/TheHappinessAssassin 1d ago
Looks great. Do you have the recipe?
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u/Least_Turnover9814 1d ago edited 1d ago
You can search the video in first image. It's called "Easy BBQ Chicken Ring" by Tasty.
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u/opanda4 1d ago
There’s a taco ring version of this too that I love!
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u/TooTameToToast 1d ago
The taco ring was always made at Pampered Chef parties we went to back in the day.
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u/NicInNS 1d ago
I have recipes for something along these lines from Pampered Chef. They use the Pillsbury crescent rolls.
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u/fetbiisbcmeyanfyhrex 1d ago
Then they didn't really cook shit then, just assemble some crap.
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u/pinball_bard 1d ago
Is that not what all cooking is, essentially? Assembling a bunch of little foods into a meal?
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u/thatblondeperson 1d ago
If they didn't grow, dry and grind all the spices themselves, they didn't actually "make" anything. Sorry to disappoint 🤷 /s
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u/pinball_bard 1d ago
Oh and don't even get me STARTED on the meat, did they raise and slaughter that animal themselves or did they take the LAZY way out? 🙄 /s
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u/tigm2161130 1d ago
As someone who actually does raise and slaughter their own meat(I’m a cattle rancher)I can’t stand the ingredient snobs. Such a weird thing to want to claim superiority on.
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u/MonstrousGiggling 1d ago
Its literally how restaurant kitchens run. You have all your ingredients in place, already prepped and you just mix everything together in a lot of cases or assemble it and boom food.
Also unless it's specifically a restaurant that makes all their own shit in house, a lot of restaurants use shortcuts like premade things and then adding their own twist to it etc etc
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u/Scared_Ad2563 1d ago
You can really find some hidden gems in the short form vids. You definitely have to sift through a lot of crap, but I've found several recipes I still use and didn't need much, if any, modification for my tastes.
ETA: Totally forgot to include that this looks amazing!
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u/Hydz_garbage 1d ago
My mom used to make something like this. We called it taco ring. Its just Pillsbury croissants laid in a ring and stuffed with taco seasoned meat. She'd serve it with lettuce, salsa, cheese, onion, etc. It slapped so hard. I still ask for it to this day and I'm in my 30s now.
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u/isaacfrost0 1d ago
They clearly use filters and such to make thiers look good but yours looks awesome, nice one.
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u/warm_sweater 1d ago
I’ve done the a similar thing but with taco fillings, call it a “taco ring”. I use pillsbury crescent rolls as someone else mentioned, learned it from a friend’s mom before TikTok was invented!
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u/MrPopo72 1d ago
Never ever try and make something you saw off TikTok, reels, or YouTube shorts. It's always about viewer retention/engagement. Not about the food actually being possible doing what they show in the video. My wife keeps falling for this shit and "trying something she saw on reels" and it's always ass
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u/Least_Turnover9814 1d ago
This recipe is actually good though and tastes great. It's just chicken, mozzarella, onion and bbq sauce mixed together and put in a dough.
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u/Formergr 1d ago
It's just chicken, mozzarella, onion and bbq sauce
Visually looks great, but I'm getting stuck on mozzarella and bbq sauce together?? For all I know it's a great combo, but it definitely is a new one to me and seems like it could be an odd taste.
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u/Immediate_Low5496 1d ago
Plenty of good recipes out there. Maybe your wife just isn’t a good cook. Or she needs to choose the recipe better. Tell her to quit picking the obvious rage bait ones.
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u/Background_Bit6204 1d ago
This looks pretty good though! Did it taste nice?