I’m tired of guessing which country the author is from when they use cup measurement and how densely they put flour in it.

  • Pringles@lemm.ee
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    30 days ago

    Pretty sure any pastry chef will strongly disagree with that. If anything, baking is the cooking activity most akin to an exact science. The amounts need to be carefully measured, the temperatures need to be exactly right (e.g. Italian merengue), the baking time needs to be correct to the second for some dishes (lava cake).

    Yes, the measures can change based on the flour or its substitutes (ground pistachio for example), but the processes involved require an equal amount of precision.

    A lot of chefs call cooking an art, but baking a science.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      30 days ago

      Lol. Dude, you’re laughably wrong about this. Omg, I could just imagine trying to get lava cake out to the second or it being no good. Not even talking about how much temp, elevation, and humidity effect things to make “perfect recipes” non existent.

      Also, “oh no. Your nutmeg is now 6 weeks old. You’ll have to add an extra 0.9% of it to your recipe”

      Cupcakes aren’t like making Walter Whites blue meth, Hun.