+1, every job interview I’ve ever had, it was obvious that the interviewer was reading my resume for the first time during the interview.

It’s actually Czechoslovak, but check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarie_XB-1

That’s like serving berry jam with berry pie. It would be just too much. You want to serve berry pie with ice cream. You want something that complements the flavor, not something that’s the same flavor.

Lemmy was foretold… we just didn’t know… 🫣

You dated the fastest hot dog shooter in the northwest? Omg

Then get your friends/family to take pics with their phones, and don’t hire a wedding photographer. No one is forcing you to. Just don’t then go on to complain if the specific moments you want are missed/blurry/composition sucks.

Like, maybe this is a controversial opinion, but of all the people trying to rip you off in the world, photographers are pretty low on the list.

Right, like the uber driver is getting ripped off too! The existence of multiple jobs not getting paid enough doesn’t justify any of them not paying enough.

When I was a kid they told me they skipped E on report cards, because it was too easy to change into a B. I was like. Wouldn’t it be just as easy to turn an F into an A?

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B&H Photo will not process your order on the Jewish day of rest, it’s amazing. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/httwww.bhphotovideo.com/find/SHcalendar.jsp

Well of course you gotta think, Reddit and Twitter were also probably getting a lot more hits than Low Tech Mag 😅

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.

What recipe where you’re cooking can you change ingredients by such extreme amounts? Pasta bolognese or lasagne with 2x as much meat and a quarter as much pasta would be all wrong. Do you put 2x as much oil in a sauce and expect it to go well? When you make a roux, don’t you have to like. Balance the amount of butter with the amount of flour?

When you cook rice, do you experiment with different amounts of water? Or do you just cook it until it’s cooked?

In general, though, yes, stylistic decisions like how much egg vs. flour is how you make different types of cake. There’s not one platonic ideal of cake because baking isn’t as precise as advertised.

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

Also check out the Food Lab by Kenji Lopez-Alt, he also talks primarily about techniques rather than recipes

USA population in 2024: ~341 million (according to the US census)

Trump votes in 2024: ~77 million (according to Wikipedia)

That’s only about ~22% or a little over 1/5th of the country that voted for him.