I finally got booted from a recipe sharing group for posting my grandma's cookie recipe

I joined this baking group on Facebook last month because I wanted to share my grandma's secret chocolate chip cookie recipe. She used a weird ingredient like a teaspoon of vinegar that makes them super fluffy. So I posted the full recipe with step by step instructions and a photo of the finished cookies. Within 2 hours I got a message saying I was banned for posting 'unverified nutritional information' because I didn't include calorie counts or allergy warnings. I was just trying to share a family tradition! The group admins have a rule that every recipe must have a full nutritional breakdown or it gets flagged as dangerous. I learned that some groups take food safety way too seriously even for home baking. Has anyone else gotten kicked out of a community for something as silly as missing nutrition facts?

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gavin_clark17d ago

A teaspoon of vinegar? That's the wildest cookie trick I've ever heard.

burns.ruby17d ago

Honestly, putting vinegar in cookies sounds like a prank someone would play on a new baker to sabotage their batch. Ngl, I've heard of using it for fluffier pancakes, but in cookies? That feels like a totally different universe of weird. Tbh, I'd have to see the final result to believe it doesn't just taste like a science experiment gone wrong.