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

  • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    I am a former pastry chef and baker. You’d think it’s very precise work but it’s actually mostly intuition based on experience. You know the recipes and tweak them as you go. Also the batch sizes are many times bigger than a home cook ever makes so a cup of flour more or less usually makes no difference to the end product. With leavening agents the margin of error is smaller obviously.

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      1 month ago

      This whole thread is pretty triggering to me. People think that if the recipe is exact enough, it’ll come out perfect the first time and they won’t have to make any tweaks sure to their ingredients, their equipment, or the environment.

      There’s a reason why I generally won’t make a recipe for the first time for guests.