• LemmyLefty
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    1 year ago

    The first time you make a recipe you should strive to follow it as closely as possible to give it a fair shake.

    • @[email protected]
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      281 year ago

      In this vein, you should try the food you are given before seasoning, adding salt, or covering it in sauce.

    • Canopyflyer
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      61 year ago

      Amen!

      If the recipe isn’t great, you’ll know and maybe make changes to salvage it. My family has several recipes like that, where the original is “meh”, but after tinkering it becomes a staple.

      Most notable are our chocolate chip cookies. They started out as Toll House, but now includes browned butter, better chocolate chips and a few other techniques that makes complex tasting cookies.

      • LemmyLefty
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        31 year ago

        Yeah, and sometimes even if a recipe isn’t what I want it’s still a simple way to peer into someone else’s culture or life.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Reminds me of people who review recipes poorly after substituting half the ingredients. Incredible

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I struggle with this when I come up against an instruction that my experience tells me is a very bad idea. Especially since I make a lot of recipes from random blogs. I have to determine what weird instructions will result in a cool new experience verses what will ruin a dish because the author is an idiot.