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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's like translating grandma's units of measurements from her old recipes.

"A smidge of this, three sprinkles of that, and a can full of something that does not come in a can" (The can was her 'measuring can' that was some kind of weird size that doesn't exist anymore)

Edit: After she passed, we threw the can away because we didn't realize it was the can and load-bearing to most of her recipes. After some best guesses + trial and error, we concluded the can was approximately 7 ounces / just under a cup.

[–] TwoBeeSan 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same!

Turns out they use to send an "envelope" of yeast.

Ours would deliberately omit things. Family had to watch her and then take independent notes/ write in the margins what she was really doing

RIP you bitter but loving gal

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm assuming an envelope of yeast is in no way close to a packet of yeast? lol because that would be too easy.

Ours would deliberately omit things.

The old secret ingredient. I don't think we had to contend with that, thankfully.

[–] baldingpudenda 8 points 1 week ago

Grandma was a constant ball buster and, as my aunts and uncles weighed her prep carefully, said "why? You're still gonna mess up the cooking. Stick to baking."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Better write that down in a useful metric.

That cup isn't going to exist in 50 years and someone will encounter the same problem.

And don't use those German 90's hardcore nightclub noises neither.

[–] davidgro 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just in case...

When they said "7 ounces / just under a cup." that's not a particular physical cup. A "cup" is an exact measure in the US, it's 8 fluid ounces, which is 236.5882365 milliliters precisely.

Even if the US does go metric, it will take a lot longer than 50 years for people to not know how big a cup is, all measuring tools in every kitchen are marked for them and the other common units like tablespoons and teaspoons*, and virtually every recipe uses them.

*I wish I was joking.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The head of quality control at Tesla in charge of eyeballing: reincarnated Marty Feldman

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Best part of cooking compared to baking, in my opinion, is this.

You need 2 cups of whatever? Well, an extra eighth cup by accident isn't going to kill it, probably.

Your pastry or whatever your baking calls for exactly 2 pecans? Better not forget them or whatever you're baking will go thermonuclear!

[–] Xenny 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly this is less true the more you bake. I find myself tearing recipes apart and substituting/modifying amounts of all sorts of ingredients.

Sure if you want to make a fluffy white cake or a classic chocolate chip cookie you better do that by the book but you can get pretty creative with baking if you know what you're doing.

[–] captainlezbian 1 points 1 week ago

Bread is the domain of the mad. You learn how the air feels and adjust accordingly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, that's how I usually do my estimations on software projects.

If I'd go through the work to make an exact estimation, most of the work would already be done - and then I still wouldn't be 100% sure, that the approach works, until it's tested

So, I kinda eyeball what I'll need to analyse the problem, create a concept, implement and test it - and leave some spare room for getting back to step 1.

[–] nifty 4 points 1 week ago

Someone who’s been doing something along enough totally can

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 2 points 1 week ago

This is me with cooking. My chef will regularly ask me how much of each ingredient I used in a particular dish I created and every time I'm just like "dude I just kept throwing shit in until it tasted right"

Don't get me wrong if you give me a recipe I'll follow it to the letter, but if I'm making something on the fly there's not a single thought about measurements.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Vibes-based QA only