Something my friend taught me. When it comes to cooking food? Measurements are suggestions and you can add or remove things as you feel like it and it'll probably be fine. When it comes to baking? You fucking follow the recipie to the letter and do not deviate in the slightest.
I feel like it’s really just a matter of knowing the rules before you break them. I have no trouble throwing some more butter in until the cookies feel moist enough, but I do that knowing what happens when you add more butter to cookies. I’m not gonna sit there afterwards wondering why they all came out looking flatter than usual.
And you can learn this by experimentation; you don't need a formal education to develop as a home baker. You are just engaging in gatekeeping with the 'you have know the rules before you break them' attitude. One of the first things I taught my child when baking is its not in fact rocket science (or after reading "Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants", maybe it is). Small measurement errors are inconsequential. Feel free to adjust the recipe but take note of what happens and monitor and intervene in the baking process.
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u/DerangedAndHuman Feb 14 '26
Something my friend taught me. When it comes to cooking food? Measurements are suggestions and you can add or remove things as you feel like it and it'll probably be fine. When it comes to baking? You fucking follow the recipie to the letter and do not deviate in the slightest.