Dammit, I have to bake and cook from scratch all the damn time. It saves money because my kid has allergies (dairy and peanuts, but I'll be honest, it's the dairy that's a bitch) and it's way easier and cheaper to do stuff from scratch than it is to find pre-made stuff without his allergens. Do I like having to do it…

I would fuck someone up, them's fighting words!

Oh, my Aunt took a store bought pie to a book club and copped flak. She turned around and said "hell no I didn't bake it, I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO."
I guess being a kick arse research scientist who does insane bird watching hikes in her spare time occasionally precludes being chained to the stove. She CAN bake,…

Fuckin truth. If I shortcut a recipe I will damn well say so. Because if it tastes like a shortcut, I don't want people thinking my scratch is no better than store bought.

Agreed 1,000 times. Either you love to cook/bake and you're good at it, or you don't. If you don't, you probably have your own thing you love and you do well.

I can see it if baking is a passion - of course we should all take pride in what we love to do and are good at. Me, I'm a decent enough cook/baker, I'm fine with it, but I have no aspirations for greatness. If I make something and you like it, I'm glad. If you don't, that's fine, too - I don't take it personally, but…

Yeah, if someone gave you a tasty treat, enjoy the fucking treat. Does it matter if it came from their oven or a bakery's?

Excellent point! And if you don't like baking/cooking, that's not a fucking problem because not everyone has to. Buy a pie! Who cares?! It's only worthwhile if you enjoy the process, not because you're a woman.

Y'know, that pissed me off too, but not just for that reason. I bake from scratch, and I tell people when I buy a component, but the reason it pissed me off was because of the implication that women HAVE to lie and say that we bake from scratch, because the expectation is still there. There's a reason most women don't…

My skills in the kitchen are trippin' so hard right now.

Me too. I will beat you in the face with the dough hook of my kitchen-aid mixer if you accuse me of lying about that. I always admit, usually sheepishly and somewhat embarrassed, if I've used a boxed something. Most of my family just look at me like the can't comprehend that there is another way to make a cake.

For realz. I have coconut flan baking right now, there is fresh homemade bread, and lunch was an amazing fish casserole. That one made me mad.

Mmmmmmm! I think I'm going to need to bake something today.

This kind of stuff reminds me of one my favorite poems by Pablo Neruda. Ah writing as art.

I made brioche bostock from scratch last weekend, it took two days total to make the brioche and then the almond cream and spiced syrup. It was amazing and worth the effort. I would scratch out an eye if someone accused me of buying it.

I bake from scratch as well and I too will tell people if a case is not made from scratch which is almost always. I can't bear to touch pastry with my bare hands. It seriously squicks me out, which is why I nearly always bake cakes or cookies you don't have to roll. That cake looks like the bees' knees.

THIS! I am proud of my baking skills, and I will make sure to tell someone when I've used store bought pie shells or fillings because I know they won't taste as good as home made. If some dude wants to think I'm lying, they should tell me so I don't waste good food on them.

ALL OVER THIS. I make a lot of baked goods from scratch, and that means NO MIXES:

I am ready to throw down over "#LiesToldByFemales I made it from scratch." There is a tart shell baking in the own right now that says otherwise, asshole. If I buy something, I say so. #bakingpride

Ahhh, "females." My favorite dehumanizing term for women. Whenever I hear that in real life, I ask "Female what? Squid? Groundhog? Oak tree?"