Family Pressures Man Who Refuses To Share His Cheesecake Recipe With Sister, Ends Up Making Him Angry

"This isn't persuading me; it's only making me angry"

Maryjane

• Published in Interesting
• February 16, 2024

When we share our favorite recipes—whether they are for the food we create for our families or the food we sell at our businesses—it can evoke strong feelings in either case. Some people may feel uncomfortable disclosing their family's "secret" recipe, even though they have no trouble sharing the recipes they came up with.

This is especially true if your business involves preparing food for other people. Why would you want to make your go-to recipe for perfectly cooked fried chicken available to a rival?

Is it possible for us to safeguard our recipes? Should we keep our recipes confidential and protected?

Well, the OP of today's story held on to his cheesecake recipe. The OP is the youngest of a large, dysfunctional family, and while he's at least cordial, he would prefer to have as little contact with his surviving siblings as possible.

The OP made a cheesecake from a recipe he found on the internet. The first time he tried it, he thought it was decent but also felt he could improve it.

Over the years, the OP experimented with the recipe, adding new ingredients, changing the amounts of other ingredients, and eventually perfecting the recipe to his taste. OP's sister loved the cheesecake OP made and asked for the recipe.

The OP gave her the website he got the recipe from, not his version. His sister wanted his own recipe, but he wasn't going to let it out.

Find out what happens next as you read the full story below.

The OP writes

The OP has made sufficient modifications to make it officially his cheesecake recipe

She asked the OP to make the cheesecake he made for him and his sister

She's persisted in badgering the OP for it and even gotten her own kids involved

OP has offered the following explanation for why they think they might be the AH:

My sister asked me for a cheesecake recipe I made from an existing recipe on the internet. I consider the number of modifications I made to the recipe more than sufficient to make it "my" recipe. I gave her the internet version and refuse to give her my version.

And the comments roll in...

The OP might consider going into the cheesecake business

I'm not discussing the recipe

What homophobia should be met with

A blank stare and feigned concern

The OP left an update in the comments and here it is

The OP finally realized that she doesn't give a sh*t if they like him or not.

People grab hold of the easy cliché "' We're family!'" when they already know they don't treat their family members with attention, decency, or respect. You don't expect someone to be family when you don't treat them as such.

The least the OP could do for someone who shows them regard, love, and respect is to give them a recipe. He was declared not the AH, and that's a wrap.

Maryjane