Recipes can be helpful in the beginning, if you've never cooked before, but they might be holding you back. Here's why.
1. Recipes don't allow you to develop instincts in the kitchen. You don't get the opportunity to make mistakes, learn from them and become a better cook, as a result.
2. Recipes hold back your creativity in the kitchen. You're ultimately cooking to someone else's taste, not yours.
3. Recipes make the process of cooking mechanical. Measuring every ingredient with 100% precision is not how you learn to cook. It just makes cooking following a set of instructions. Enjoying cooking means being immersed in the process and using all of your senses to let the dish guide you, not the recipe.
I hope this helps you make cooking a bit more enjoyable.
Roshni Dutt
Recipes can be helpful in the beginning, if you've never cooked before, but they might be holding you back. Here's why.
1. Recipes don't allow you to develop instincts in the kitchen. You don't get the opportunity to make mistakes, learn from them and become a better cook, as a result.
2. Recipes hold back your creativity in the kitchen. You're ultimately cooking to someone else's taste, not yours.
3. Recipes make the process of cooking mechanical. Measuring every ingredient with 100% precision is not how you learn to cook. It just makes cooking following a set of instructions. Enjoying cooking means being immersed in the process and using all of your senses to let the dish guide you, not the recipe.
I hope this helps you make cooking a bit more enjoyable.
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