• protist@mander.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    I watch chefs on YouTube demonstrate techniques, and then make recipes up as I go based on the ingredients I have available (This does not work for recipes that require exact measurements, like breads). Finding recipes through search engines has been a nightmare for a looong time.

    Also - Madhur Jaffrey and America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks. Both go into detail on techniques you can bring forward into all your cooking. Madhur Jaffrey taught me how to cook Indian food and it’s amazing

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      (This does not work for recipes that require exact measurements, like breads)

      There’s a reason we have different words for “cooking” and “baking.”