Recipes

>>9393416
Some I have memorized, others I have online.

>>9393416
I read cookbooks, yeah. I write down recipes I find online or see on a TV show. I do save the recipes I write down but I find that I tend to remember them once I've made them a couple of times so I rarely go back to my notes. It's usually only the first or second time I make something that I refer to a recipe.

Whenever I experiment with something new I take notes regarding what I did and update those notes as I continue to improve on the dish. Once it gets where I want it I tend to follow what I described above--I have it written down but once I've done it a couple times I end up remembering the recipe.

I can't cook and I FUCKING hate recipes. FUCK RECIPES. Every fucking recipe leads to the shit it tastes nothing like.

I swear to god If I get a recipe I know for fact NOT to follow it accurately because it will come out fucked up.

When I cook, I just wing it. I can make the same recipe twice, within reason. The only reason I actually use written or online recipes is to share them with other people, so they understand how I made something, or how I plan on making something. Otherwise, I just cook.

Three ring binders divided by my own recipes and family recipes, recipes I've tried and liked, and recipes I haven't tried yet.

>>9393477
Sounds like a personal problem. Have you ever read cookbooks? Or do you just use random recipes you find on the web?

>>9393477
A lot of recipes, especially those found online, are utter shit.

I find that you can filter out a lot of them by following two rules:
1) does the author of the recipe match the nationatlity or type of the food? For example, if you want to cook Indian then the author of the recipe ought to be Indian. If you want to cook soul food the author ought to be an overweight black woman from the US south, and so on.

2) Look at the ingredients. The ingredients need to match the nationality of the recipe. If you're cooking ethnic food and the recipe doesn't call for strange herbs you've never heard of then that's a red flag.