I’m tired of guessing which country the author is from when they use cup measurement and how densely they put flour in it.

  • @dustyData
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    12 hours ago

    If you know the factors that affect the flour, you can control said factors, thus predict your results based on such factors, more or less a measurable margin of error. Ergo, baking is precisely an exact science.

    • @andrewta
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      11 hour ago

      How would you find out those factors about wheat?

      • @dustyData
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        148 minutes ago

        Random sampling flour batches. And you’d think I’m joking. But no, this is exactly how we invented cookies. Cookies were baker’s experimental tool to test their flour and, by ovserving the cookie, predict what they needed to change in their bread recipes to produce the exact result they wanted.