Well, that's a reasonable point! Perhaps it also depends on one's approach to cooking. I often read recipes not because I intend to follow them, but to underst

Well, that's a reasonable point! Perhaps it also depends on one's approach to cooking. I often read recipes not because I intend to follow them, but to understand the range of variation in the dish before I make my own version. "Somebody liked this enough to bother writing it up" is enough context for that use.