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Do You Actually Follow the Recipe?

Everyone says they follow the recipe. Then the onion goes in for as long as it looks like it needs, the wine is however much came out of the bottle, and the timer was set for a number nobody has looked at since.

Ten statements, about two minutes, and one number for what actually happens in your kitchen rather than what the cookbook thinks is happening.

10 questions

Answered 0 of 10

  1. 1 Making something exactly as written is how I learn what it is supposed to be.
  2. 2 I set a timer rather than judge by look and smell.
  3. 3 I measure ingredients rather than judging amounts by eye.
  4. 4 I change a recipe the first time I make it.
  5. 5 I want a dish I make to come out the same way the next time.
  6. 6 When I bake, I follow the quantities exactly.
  7. 7 I trust my own sense of what a dish needs over what the recipe says.
  8. 8 I add seasoning by tasting rather than by the amount given.
  9. 9 I cook things without looking at a recipe.
  10. 10 A missing ingredient is something to work around rather than a reason to stop.