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This doesn’t ring true to me. As a bread baker I’ll just do the same recipe 1000 times, watching YouTube videos week after week, practicing different techniques
by erikpukinskis 7y ago
This doesn’t ring true to me. As a bread baker I’ll just do the same recipe 1000 times, watching YouTube videos week after week, practicing different techniques, seeing if tiny variations in technique, weather, etc, affect the end product.
That’s completely different from cooking, which is about learning to Google, evaluating whether to trust a recipe, menu planning, seasonal ingredient management, knowing the personalities of the people you’re cooking for, understanding a wide range of cuisines... it feels like a fully different activity.
And being able to follow the recipe isn’t really the key to either. It’s the price of admission.
- codyb 7y agoI can cook at this point, self made recipes and sauces and delicious foods. But I find google (or ddg in my case) to be shit for finding recipes. Too many results, lots of filler content about someone’s grandma and yada yada yada. These days I just pick up a few well rated cookbooks (or I receive them as gifts) and go from there. Let someone else do the curation, it’s very rarely the fun part of cooking, and I enjoy cookbooks because they have recipes for things I wouldn’t have thought to even look up. Plus, there’s something very calming to me about looking through a cookbook. Maybe it’s the same for others. Cooking and baking shows are similar. It’s just hard to be stressed watching someone make food.