Terrible Waffles

So I would consider myself a decent cook.
Not amazing by any means.

But I seriously screwed up last Sunday whilst making waffles.

So if you didn't know, Baking Soda and Baking Powder are two completely different ingredients.
And you just kind of assume they do similar things.

Not really.

Well in my family we have this great Belgium waffle recipe.
Literally to die for and I could pretty much have waffles every single day if I could.

Actually i've had waffles for breakfast probably for the past 4 days or so.

But long story short I made our waffle recipe with baking soda instead of the baking powder it called for.
It was awful.

I had a little brunch shindig get together thing and on a whim decided to make waffles.
We were out of baking powder so I substituted.

The were so bad.
So sour and then the roommate was in the same predicament but shes celiac so she had gluten free pancakes.
And she had to throw so much extra stuff in the batter just so you couldn't taste the baking soda.
Ask anyone there and they will agree it was bad.
And they are my friends!

Moral of the story.
Follow the damn recipe.