>cooks illustrated recipe>You'll need to buy sandwich bread>Later cooking>Okay toast the bread in the oven and then pulverize it to make 2 cups of bread crumbs>So i could have just bought bread crumbs
>>21887672Next time you'll know to read the entire recipe beforehand. You did this to yourself.dumbass
>>21887688I am a dumbass, but why have a recipe require you to make base components from scratch?
>>21887688Fuck you, I'll keep making this mistake until the day I die.
>cooks illustrated It's a recipe for professionals who might be observed and not budget conscious home cooks. Think for yourself and change the recipe if you don't like it.
>>21887672Bought breadcrumbs are obviously not the same as crumbled toast
>>21887688this, OP is both a faggot and a retard
>>21887692I've never really seen a recipe do that, and definitely not for breadcrumbs. I could see it doing something like listing breadcrumbs as an ingredient, with a footnote that you can buy them already made, or make them yourself with instructions later on. But recipes don't typically have you take extra unnecessary steps unless there's a reason for it. So, unless you're just making this up which is highly likely, I'm going to assume there was a reason, like the recipe used more of the bread for another component so it was knocking out two birds with one stone, or it called for the breadcrumbs to be seasoned a very particular way, or something like that.But yeah, this is why you just read the recipe all the way through before doing anything. Rookie mistake.
>>21887725I cooked with blue apron for a few weeks since I got a coupon that made it seem worth it for a short while.Anyway, contrary to my believe, they actually make you cook and you are constantly making things from ground up you would usually just buy or ignore, like crushing up nuts and roasting them with herbs just for a final topping.
>>21887732Yeah I guess it depends on where you're getting the recipes from. I just took a look at Cook's Illustrated cause I wasn't familiar with it, and it looks like it's whole thing is teaching home cooks the science and deeper processes behind cooking. So it makes sense why it would make you go out of your way to take extra steps. It's trying to teach you something a bit deeper than just assembling ingredients. So yeah OP, this isn't a normal thing but you should still read recipes all the way through.
>>21887672>out of breadcrumbs but want to make meatloaf for dinner>decide to just leave some bread on the counter for 6 hours and then mince it finely>it works BASED
>>21887725>how to make pasta sauce>buy pasta sauce>or make it yourself
>>21887905don't let your meat loaf lol
>>21888020I mean if you're looking up a recipe for pasta sauce it's because you want to make it yourself so it's gonna tell you how to do that.Same if you looked up a recipe specifically for breadcrumbs.But a recipe where breadcrumbs are just an ingredient, it's probably not going to specify how you source the breadcrumbs. As seen above though, Cook's Illustrated isn't a typical recipe site.
Enjoy your preservatives and sneed oils>why make marinara when i can buy it at the store?>why make a burger when i can go to mcdonalds?
>>21887672>bought bread crumbsthese are absolute shit and don't work as a substitute for fresh (or even stale) bread that you make into crumbs for panades etc.
>>21888190I don't want to make bread crumbs from scratch for something simple like a salmon crust. If the recipe's core ingredient is bread crumbs then sure
>>21888352read the entire recipe next time
