I have come to the conclusion that i love cooking but hate baking? Why? Because baking is too much like quantum physics. The act of observing changes the result of the experiment. I am not crazy, hear me out.

Think about it: When you open your oven to inspect the status of whatever it is you are baking, perhaps cutting into it to see if the inside is done, you are letting a lot of the heat out and the whole timing of the recipe is thrown off! How are you supposed to know how many extra minutes this adds to the baking time?!

It must have taken so much trial and error and so many wasted ingredients for the people who came up with the recipes for baking before they got it right...

Just a random thought that popped into my head today while i was preparing dinner.

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[–] 1 point 7 months ago

There's culinary science to explain what you're talking about.

It's also interesting how simple and hard to mess up recipes for baking are viewed as generally unappetizing or "for the poor"

Hard to create recipes are viewed as desirable, Kim is souffle bourgeoise decadence?

Some of the most common mistakes in baking I see is changing the quantities of ingredients in a recipe, you generally should never scale up or down the recipe unless you know what you're doing. Good recipe books will tell you if you can open the oven for inspection.

Nowadays we have measurements and more advanced technology to measure temperatures, humidity etc.

This is how an apolitical persons feels when we start explaining Marxism to them in details btw. Boring.

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