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and the result is mostly edible if not optimum. My favorite cooking mistake was one made by my ex, who liked to cook and was usually pretty good at it. However, one day I came home from work and found a plate of delicious-looking muffins on the dining room table, and on top of the muffins was a piece of paper with a drawing of a skull and crossbones. Ex was upstairs playing the piano, so I went up and enquired as to the cryptic sign on the muffins. He explained that he'd followed the recipe to the letter, except that he used baking soda where it called for baking powder. Since baking soda is much stronger than baking powder the resulting muffins were weirdly salty and basically inedible. This was how he learned that they are not interchangeable.