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Your last paragraph is just how my mom bakes. It’s entirely possible to bake without recipes once you have the experience, like you’re saying.

They just haven’t practiced it. If you’re a good cook, you absolutely have capacity to be a good baker, because they’re only semantically different things. If we called it cooking a cake, no one would draw this distinction, and some other languages/cultures don’t.

If you can prepare, mix, and properly cook ingredients then you can prepare, mix, and properly bake ingredients.

I would argue that even measuring by weight isn’t all that important.

You would be wrong due to the physical properties of flour and how it compresses, but we generally agree that most people who are getting fine results with measuring however they want should just keep doing whatever they want.

At 3AM ain’t nobody got time or the mood to scale everything.

I mean, when I was a professional baker I did exactly that, and so did everyone I worked with. I think it’s more convenient and faster than measuring by volume, so it’s what I’d usually prefer to do at home or at work.

100%! This is what I’m saying. If you can cook, you can bake. Sorry/not sorry.

As a former professional baker, nah.

Most of these home bakers talking about how “precise” their baking is aren’t actually that precise. They:

• measure ingredients by volume rather than weight
• have home ovens that vary in temperature wildly
• never consider ambient humidity/outdoor temp at all

Cooking and baking aren’t that different, there are hard and fast rules in both, but also if you’re good at one, you’re also good at the other, because they are the same thing. Can you follow a recipe that involves cooking meat in the oven? Then guess what? You can also bake a cake. I’m sorry to be the bearer of good news

I’ve just been saying “go woke or go broke” for a little while now.

So glad we’ve been spending billions building and stockpiling these things for my entire life, only to run out after [checks notes] six months of bullshit that accomplished nothing.