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a complete beginner will fuck up the recipe no matter how much you explain and that is part of cooking. it is a skill like any other that you develop as you do.
by nextlevelwizard 6y ago
a complete beginner will fuck up the recipe no matter how much you explain and that is part of cooking. it is a skill like any other that you develop as you do. recipes are just a framework not something you follow exactly.
this being said. I much rather follow these simple recipes than try to decipher the actual recipe from a bloated site with ads and thousand word blog post by the author how a sausage reminds them of their grandparents.
- gambiting 6y agoThere are certainly recipes which are better than others for beginners. I believe I learnt how to cook and developed an intuition for it because for 2 years I cooked every day using one of the meal boxes subscription service, and the recipes were written for people who have no idea what they are doing. Exact recipes with plenty of pictures, and there was tonnes of variety too. Compared to some cookbooks that I have which will simply say "season to taste". Like.....what do you mean? Season with what? Etc etc etc. And yes, blog recipes are the worst, but there are still excellent cookbooks out there, or even BBC Good food website has pretty good recipes without the bloat of people telling you their entire life story first