chave982
Senior Cook
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- Feb 15, 2007
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Just wondering what the most challenging foods/meals people on here have cooked. For me, it was my first loaf of white bread...back when I thought exact measurments didn't matter .
Any kind of baking - I'm not good at exact quantities and am not very patient.
+1 on that!
I can't even be aroung people cooking....not baking but cooking, with a measuring cup and spoon set.
"The recipe calls for 1/4 cup."
"So just pour some in there!"
There is absolutely nothing wrong with following a recipe and measuring ingredients. For one thing, it enables you to reproduce a recipe so that it tastes the same every time.
There is also nothing wrong with changing a recipe or measuring ingredients by less reliable methods, just be prepared to deal with the consequences - "This doesn't taste the same as last time, what did you do different?".
Except that with baking, atmospheric conditions can play a big role in how things turn out. Moisture in the air, temperature, even whether the flour has absorbed moisture from the air in days gone by. I think this is why more people have trouble with baking than with cooking. At least that's how it is for me.