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Bread sure, bust out the scales, but most recipes don't actually need anything more than a vague outline of what you're trying to do. Tolerances on soup, for ex
by ThrustVectoring 5y ago
Bread sure, bust out the scales, but most recipes don't actually need anything more than a vague outline of what you're trying to do. Tolerances on soup, for example, are extremely wide, and any measurement is picking an arbitrary point in flavor space and declaring it "correct" when much of anything will do. And the idea of a "correct" way to do it encourages home cooks to treat the process like a black box where any misstep will ruin things, rather than having levers to adjust things to taste.
- bigyikes 5y agoLearning to “let go” has really helped out my mediocre cooking skills. We really need a Bob Ross for the cooking world; someone to help us embrace all of our tasty little accidents.
- finnh 5y agoSam Sifton (mentioned in the article) has a "No Recipe Recipes" book that I just received for Father's Day. Perfectly suited to how I like to cook.