I have in the oven right now a “bread” to which I accidentally doubled the amount of butter in the batter. I’m not certain what will come of it, but hell, it’s already in the oven.
How did it turn out?
So it tastes great, but its structural integrity is seriously lacking and it falls apart. Lesson learned to pay better attention.
Butter attention is key
I doubled the amount of cream cheese by accident in a Newfoundland fruit cake. It was a little greasy, but in a delicious way
Just say you made a French variation of it.
Never understood this. I dick around while baking all the time. I pretty much never follow the recipe, and just throw whatever in in whatever amount I feel like. Sometimes things get weird, but usually it turns out alright with just a bit of extra flour or water to get the consistency right.
Cooking on the other hand… As far as I can tell, meat goes from raw to tough as nails in about 3 seconds.
Yes! I am also a competent baker but a … less great cook. I am not super fond of either one, but at least baking means you’re going to be eating sugar the whole time.
You can always focus more on fat for a more meal-adjacent baked good. I took my cinnamon roll recipe and turned it into a dill bread cheesy roll with sour cream filling, and it worked great! Terrible for you, but delicious.
I totally agree. Both of them have places where you can art (make stuff up) and both have places where you have to science (follow an established plan). My perspective is that whatever you practice more gets easier/intuitive. Most people cook more than they bake, so don’t realize that they climbed over that need for a recipe while cooking before they knew it. If they made bread every night for a couple of months, they would start improvising on that too.
high hydration dough is sooo emotionally clingy, too.
Okay, Shaggy.
well if you think regular dough is fearful, try working with buckwheat dough. Gets into your nightmares when you fall sleep.
Cooking is an art, baking is a science
and fermentation feels like magic
the three combined make life much better
i bet cookies aren’t even that hard, will check on tuesday
Cookies are super easy and you should totally try making them.
in fact, i bet hardtack is easy as fuck
Cooking is the one you can fuck up a bit and still save things
Baking? You won’t necessarily get to know that you’ve fucked up until you’re literally serving it to people
Cooking is the fun art you can enter a flow state with. Baking is the nerdy anxiety catalysing science that will make you doubt your every move.
Nah. If you know your dough, you know when it’s not strong , not elastic enough. It’s all experience. Those too neatly separated jokes about cooking and baking are not reality.
Meanwhile cooking has always given me pure anxiety
Saccharomyces cerevisiae gaines conciousness, becomes multicellular organism and starts consuming you mid baking.
That’s how I feel about walking my dog. If he knows that I want him to hurry up and pee/poo he’ll take his sweet ass time. If I’m not in a rush he goes quickly and wants to go inside.
Imagine you had a dude anxiously pacing while staring at you trying to poop.
Baking is about patience, knowing when to stop proofing, how vigorously to stir etc. Its not rocket science (source: am professional baker and not a scientist)
Somewhere there’s a professor, a master of the field, saying to the students: “you know rocket science is not that hard, it’s not bakery!” and everyone laughs.
