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I have in the oven right now a “bread” to which I accidentally doubled the amount of butter in the batter. I’m not certain what will come of it, but hell, it’s already in the oven.
Just say you made a French variation of it.
I doubled the amount of cream cheese by accident in a Newfoundland fruit cake. It was a little greasy, but in a delicious way
Never understood this. I dick around while baking all the time. I pretty much never follow the recipe, and just throw whatever in in whatever amount I feel like. Sometimes things get weird, but usually it turns out alright with just a bit of extra flour or water to get the consistency right.
Cooking on the other hand… As far as I can tell, meat goes from raw to tough as nails in about 3 seconds.
I totally agree. Both of them have places where you can art (make stuff up) and both have places where you have to science (follow an established plan). My perspective is that whatever you practice more gets easier/intuitive. Most people cook more than they bake, so don’t realize that they climbed over that need for a recipe while cooking before they knew it. If they made bread every night for a couple of months, they would start improvising on that too.
i bet cookies aren’t even that hard, will check on tuesday
in fact, i bet hardtack is easy as fuck
Cookies are super easy and you should totally try making them.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae gaines conciousness, becomes multicellular organism and starts consuming you mid baking.
Baking bread and baking pastry are two entirely different fields. Bread don’t give a fuck (outside of sourdough), pastry will shank a bitch if its one degree too warm
well if you think regular dough is fearful, try working with buckwheat dough. Gets into your nightmares when you fall sleep.
Baking is about patience, knowing when to stop proofing, how vigorously to stir etc. Its not rocket science (source: am professional baker and not a scientist)
Somewhere there’s a professor, a master of the field, saying to the students: “you know rocket science is not that hard, it’s not bakery!” and everyone laughs.
