I nearly had a dinner disaster tonight. I was preparing a dish calling for, among many other things, a couple of teaspoons of potato starch. My hand went out and grabbed the nearest jar of white powder and I threw the first teaspoonful in over the other ingredients. I don't know what made me question myself, but I glanced at the jar label and realised it was baking soda which, in my opinion, is not a suitable substitute for potato starch, which lives in a completely different sized jar on a different shelf and has done for over a decade.
Fortunately, I was able to scrape it out before it got too integrated with the rest of the dish, then continue with my recipe.
Could have been worse. I could have picked up the cocaine stash jar! 
All these white powders - hard to keep track!
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I nearly had a dinner disaster tonight. I was preparing a dish calling for, among many other things, a couple of teaspoons of potato starch. My hand went out and grabbed the nearest jar of white powder and I threw the first teaspoonful in over the other ingredients. I don't know what made me question myself, but I glanced at the jar label and realised it was baking soda which, in my opinion, is not a suitable substitute for potato starch, which lives in a completely different sized jar on a different shelf and has done for over a decade.
Fortunately, I was able to scrape it out before it got too integrated with the rest of the dish, then continue with my recipe.
Could have been worse. I could have picked up the cocaine stash jar!
