My aunt's boxed brownies beat my from-scratch batch at a church potluck in Dayton last month
I showed up to the potluck at St. Mark's in Dayton with a tray of brownies I did fully from scratch, real melted chocolate, browned butter, the works, and my aunt Carol brought the $1.25 box mix where you just add an egg and oil. Hers got wiped out in about 15 minutes while mine sat there getting sad and dry around the edges, and three people asked her for the recipe. So my real question is this: are we all just fooling ourselves that from scratch always tastes better, or did I mess something up that a box mix somehow covers for?