Before you sperg out let me explain. Recipes can give you a decent benchmark for what ingredients you need to use and a general approximation of how long something takes to cook. If you have never made something before, it would be smart to consult a recipe.However, there are some people who have an entrenched belief that a recipe is law - it must be followed to the letter in every case. This is probably one of the main causes of people making dry, unseasoned meats and lackluster dinners, because they used recipe time and 1/8 of a tsp of salt and pepper and other similar things. Momblog cooking websites are the worst offenders at this, but cookbooks do it too. Everyone’s oven and stove might have slight variations in temperature. Meat can be thicker or thinner than what the recipe is assuming. Some people might start cooking meat at fridge temp vs room temp. Some people have fresher or better quality spices.The two best things anyone can ever do to improve their cooking is 1) learn how to taste your food and know what it needs - more salt, acidity, sweetness, herbs, spice, et cetera and 2) knowing when meat is done. I spent years overcooking steaks, playing around with sear times vs low heat times and resting, before I learned how to touch it and know when it is donePic unrelated no picture seemed relevant
>When did you realize recipes were bullshit?>Okay, so no they're not actually bullshit per say, but...Fuck you.
>>22181295fpbp. you do have a point OP, but you ruined it with the clickbait title.
>>22181297>>22181295They are bullshit in the sense that if you follow every recipe exactly to the letter you will almost never get the desired outcome. Yet people treat them like written law
>>22181306>if you follow every recipe exactly to the letter you will almost never get the desired outcome. Yet people treat them like written lawYes, I agree. But they do serve a purpose and you admit as much in your post. They're not "bullshit", people just rely on them too much as a crutch.
you know the whole reddit/4chan rivalry was really silly because of how similar the two communities have been, but the one truly reddit quality i've seen over the years is pedantry. everyone except #3, go back
>>22181295all ops should be beheaded while they are raped infront of their loved ones
>>22181295The phrase is "per se" you fucking retard
>>22181336It's not a new word, per se, but it's more of an evolution of the phrase to use it in that way, per say.
>>22181329there is nothing more "reddit" than using a clickbait title to get attention to your post.
>>22181346and yet, here we are
>>22181288>When did you realize recipes are bullshit?probably 30 years ago at least.
>>22181306>if you follow every recipe exactly to the letter you will almost never get the desired outcome.no! you won't.
>>22181346there is nothing more reddit than pointing out a comment is reddit since how would you know unless you hang out there?
Clickbait titles are necessary when most of the catalogue is about fast food, a couple spammers making the same thread every week, or cropped porn webms
>>22181288>When did you realize recipes are bullshit?baking has entered the arena.
>>22181374Even baking has its nuances, like different types of yeast, quality and texture of flour, what kind of salt you use, but I would agree baking is far more set-recipe dependent than cooking
>>22181353>takes one to know oneGrow up
>>22181288skill issue
>>22181424no u
>>22181288When I got out of college I was living at home and doing a lot of the cooking because my mom was sickly. Like any /b/tard I was up till like 5am every day. I ended up watching a lot of Alton Brown and just quickly picked up that most foods are basically the same procedure with different ingredients. So I started experimenting a lot. And then like you said, it became trivial to just use recipes as more like a rough guide or suggestion.
>>22181306How much of a cooklet are you that you can't follow a recipe?
>>22181846Most online recipes are horrid. If you take a half dozen recipes for the same dish to get a general understanding of the shape of the dish and then modify it in ways you think are good, they're serviceable, but that's it.
>>22181846Illiterate
