Meanwhile swap them to get normal baking and cooking without a predefined recipe. Anyone can cook and have it turn out well. If you do not have at least a masters in chemistry and you try to bake, it will fucking explode, burn, still be frozen in the center (even if it wasn’t before), be too salty, need a little bit more salt, implode, and make the entire house smell like it’s on fire until the heat death of the universe 5 seconds after you put it in the oven.
If you have a recipe they’re fairly similar, but baking is more precise while cooking usually requires more direct attention.
That’s why bakers are so chill. You learn the hard way that nothing matters and you have so very little control over the universe. Consequently you deal or go mad.
People over complicate baking. It’s mostly just managing the ratio of wet and dry ingredients. The more you bake the more you recognize what looks right. Many older recipes are written, to just add flour until it’s right.
Honestly the biggest problem people have with baking is probably not having a properly heated oven, and cooking too long or short.
I have become Guy Fieri, the destroyer of chickens
