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bort@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoso you are saying i could put twice the amount of eggs in the cake, and quarter the amount of flour in and it will still be an awesome cake? Like I can do when cooking?
What recipe where you’re cooking can you change ingredients by such extreme amounts? Pasta bolognese with 2x as much meat and half 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?
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
What recipe where you’re cooking can you change ingredients by such extreme amounts?
some examples:
Pasta bolognese or lasagne with 2x as much meat and a quarter as much pasta would be all wrong
80% meat lasagna sounds awesome.
Balance the amount of butter with the amount of flour?
That is something that needs to balanced, but even then I am ±20% i guess.
When you cook rice, do you experiment with different amounts of water?
Rice is the one thing that needs exact measuring for water.
Or do you just cook it until it’s cooked?
I know someone who cooks rice like pasta, i.e. with lots of water, and in the end uses a sieve for the access water. I may be crazy, but I am not that crazy.
Just be careful with egg whites. The sulfur taste will not go away with sugar
If your egg whites taste of sulfur, you dun goofed
RBWells@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It would be something different but not bad. Clafouti is made like that, lots of egg not much flour. It’s lovely.
But if you know the recipe how would you miss by that much?
You wouldn’t put twice the salt and half the main ingredient in something you were cooking without expecting it to turn out very differently, right?
bort@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
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