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>baking absolutely requires strict adherence to a recipe nonsense every recipe you know of started life as some cook mixing crap until "it seemed alright" befo
by Avshalom 9y ago
>baking absolutely requires strict adherence to a recipe
nonsense every recipe you know of started life as some cook mixing crap until "it seemed alright" before putting it in a an oven they gauged by hand, eye, or by how long it took to cook some sacrificial dough/food. then eyeballing the bread for when it was done.
Bread is especially forgiving, but this holds true for basically all baking too. Even as goddamned finicky as filo or puff pastry can be, they still come down to "yeah thats about right" far more than they do strict anything.
- fenwick67 9y agoYeah you can easily eyeball breadmaking and get something you can eat, not sure why it has this reputation. Making a cheese sauce is harder than making bread.
- calinet6 9y agoAll that eyeballing and intuition comes from experience, though, which is experimentation and learning. That's a pretty geeky process in its own right. And if you're in a commercial bakery, the process is down to a science, with exact weights and temperatures and times. You can also do that at home, and if you do, the results do come out better (or at least more consistent). Bread has this nice property of being both forgiving and playful, as well as highly optimizable with experimentation. Nice combo.