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Man, so many people in this thread at least unintentionally defending shrinkflation. Yes, “a box” isn’t what it used to be. I’m sure if Big Agg could figure out a way to shrinkflate chicken’s eggs for profit, they would. Don’t give these corpo’s any support for this robbery practice. They will continue to shrink things, at the same t8ime they increase prices on them to blame inflation.
The recipe passed down from her mother…for fucks sake she’s simply making cookies from mix…learn to bake
The recipe used the cake mix but for cookies. They know how to bake since they aren’t using the box mix as intended but for a mixed ingredient (like bouillon in cooking) that gets them the perfect mix of leaveners and baking powder.
Learn to read
During the previous round of shirkflation I warned people about knowing what year a recipe was from because “a can” means something different in 2004 than in 2010. And now it means something different again in 2025.
Now boxes are getting the shrink treatment too.
don’t trust recipes that use terrible measurements like ‘a can’
Sometimes you want to make grandma’s recipe and she wrote one can and isn’t around anymore to ask questions about the size of the can.
But if you head over to c/cooking you will see you can’t even use cans as a unit of measurement in most of the things I cook.
She could buy an additional box to make up the difference, she acknowledges, “but out of principle, I just can’t.”
Out of principal, I just can’t adjust the added ingredients to use slightly less because I’m an idiot.
To be fair, it’s tough to use 5/6 of an egg.
