Half-Baked

A cooking blog with the reasons left in.

The one mechanism under each thing you make — so you can fix it yourself, not follow a recipe. Plus the garden, and whatever else I'm turning over.

How the guides work

The compass, not the map.

Most recipes hand you steps with no model, so when it fails it's a mystery and you go hunting for a better recipe. The thorough ones swing the other way and bury you in every variable, until you're trusting their testing instead of your own understanding.

These do neither. You enter by your job, learn the one mechanism that governs it, and leave able to reason about the rest yourself. Deep on the one idea. Ruthless about everything else. A map tells you the route someone else took; a compass works when the recipe in front of you doesn't match the one in your head.

The kitchen, so far

The garden's coming once there's something in it worth writing down. For now it's these four.

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Before this I was Karo the Baker. The last post there was titled “Be back soon..”, in March 2016. Same person, fewer exclamation marks: karothebaker.wordpress.com.