Meanwhile swap them to get normal baking and cooking without a predefined recipe. Anyone can cook and have it turn out well. If you do not have at least a masters in chemistry and you try to bake, it will fucking explode, burn, still be frozen in the center (even if it wasn’t before), be too salty, need a little bit more salt, implode, and make the entire house smell like it’s on fire until the heat death of the universe 5 seconds after you put it in the oven.
If you have a recipe they’re fairly similar, but baking is more precise while cooking usually requires more direct attention.
People over complicate baking. It’s mostly just managing the ratio of wet and dry ingredients. The more you bake the more you recognize what looks right. Many older recipes are written, to just add flour until it’s right.
Honestly the biggest problem people have with baking is probably not having a properly heated oven, and cooking too long or short.
Iblove cooking. I fucking hate baking. I just don’t get it. How can a cake be burnt on the outside and liquid on the inside when I follow every step of the recipe super accurately
Same way a steak can be charcoal outside and raw inside: too hot. You need to preheat your oven to the predetermined temp, which is set to a degree that allows the heat to penetrate all the way to the center slowly.
While i agree that baking recipes are more complex on the whole, you can definitely find baked recipes that are a lot less sensitive to mistakes than others. No-knead breads and galettes come to mind. Certainly not idiot proof, but not quite as unapproachable as it seems.
To be clear, i get that the comment is hyperbolic but i’m replying in the hopes that someone gives baking a try who maybe otherwise wouldn’t
Cooking without a recipe is like driving without directions. The farther you reach the harder it is, but anyone can get where they’re going, and if not they can get pretty close.
Baking without a recipe is like trying to get to the moon.
Nah, the moon is a straight shot, you can brute force your way there eventually. Baking is more akin to trying to get to your Uncle Tito’s, who lives in the wilderness. You have to follow a very specific set of esoteric instructions, and if you turn 43 degrees left, instead of 45, you’ll end up at the Tito’s vodka distillery instead of Uncle Tito’s. Which could be a fun experience, but it’s not what you were going for.
Meanwhile swap them to get normal baking and cooking without a predefined recipe. Anyone can cook and have it turn out well. If you do not have at least a masters in chemistry and you try to bake, it will fucking explode, burn, still be frozen in the center (even if it wasn’t before), be too salty, need a little bit more salt, implode, and make the entire house smell like it’s on fire until the heat death of the universe 5 seconds after you put it in the oven.
If you have a recipe they’re fairly similar, but baking is more precise while cooking usually requires more direct attention.
People over complicate baking. It’s mostly just managing the ratio of wet and dry ingredients. The more you bake the more you recognize what looks right. Many older recipes are written, to just add flour until it’s right.
Honestly the biggest problem people have with baking is probably not having a properly heated oven, and cooking too long or short.
Iblove cooking. I fucking hate baking. I just don’t get it. How can a cake be burnt on the outside and liquid on the inside when I follow every step of the recipe super accurately
The key is that you’re usually not following the recipe as accurately as you think.
Also, burnt out & liquid in means too hot. Calibrate your oven so you’re actually baking at the temps the recipe calls for!
Same way a steak can be charcoal outside and raw inside: too hot. You need to preheat your oven to the predetermined temp, which is set to a degree that allows the heat to penetrate all the way to the center slowly.
While i agree that baking recipes are more complex on the whole, you can definitely find baked recipes that are a lot less sensitive to mistakes than others. No-knead breads and galettes come to mind. Certainly not idiot proof, but not quite as unapproachable as it seems.
To be clear, i get that the comment is hyperbolic but i’m replying in the hopes that someone gives baking a try who maybe otherwise wouldn’t
Cooking without a recipe is like driving without directions. The farther you reach the harder it is, but anyone can get where they’re going, and if not they can get pretty close.
Baking without a recipe is like trying to get to the moon.
Nah, the moon is a straight shot, you can brute force your way there eventually. Baking is more akin to trying to get to your Uncle Tito’s, who lives in the wilderness. You have to follow a very specific set of esoteric instructions, and if you turn 43 degrees left, instead of 45, you’ll end up at the Tito’s vodka distillery instead of Uncle Tito’s. Which could be a fun experience, but it’s not what you were going for.
I mean that’s why we’re baking for Prue. Whichever we get to she’s happy
“Beautiful” she says, as Paul reaches out his hand…
And then i awake to another ‘overproouved’ loaf -_-
Godsdammit Paul one more complaint outta you and it’s back to Winnipeg