Measurements or 'Eyeballing it'?
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Just a quick questions to all the cooks and chefs out there in Hentailand.
Do you measure your ingredients for recipes, or do you 'eyeball it' and put in as much as looks to be right?
I know only an idiot would guess at the measurements of somebody else's recipe, but for your own culinary creations, which do you do?
Do you measure your ingredients for recipes, or do you 'eyeball it' and put in as much as looks to be right?
I know only an idiot would guess at the measurements of somebody else's recipe, but for your own culinary creations, which do you do?
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I measure the first few times for everything I put in and then once I'm comfortable with the recipe or just the tools in general I eyeball it if I don't feel like measuring. 9 times out of 10 it works perfectly. Occasionally you wind up with a bit too little or a bit too much.
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blind_assassin wrote...
I measure the first few times for everything I put in and then once I'm comfortable with the recipe or just the tools in general I eyeball it if I don't feel like measuring. 9 times out of 10 it works perfectly. Occasionally you wind up with a bit too little or a bit too much.Same here. Once you know a recipe well enough, you don't really need the measurements anymore.
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tsujoi wrote...
I wouldn't eyeball anything when bakingI do a little eyeballing when baking, but definitely less then other cooking. Most of the time when I'm cooking I don't actually measure anything. Even with baking, whether I eyeball it or not, I tend to make small changes fairly often anyway and things always turn out well with whatever effect I was going for. The only times I've messed up baked goods were a couple batches of cookies that got overcooked or burnt at my old apartment before I figured out that the oven had a tendency to heat like 75 degrees over whatever you set it to.
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Nikon
FAKKU Old Guard
If it's for something important (work or a catering) I'll measure. Otherwise I'll just eyeball it, even moreso when I've already made a recipe before at work.
With baking and cooking grains, I always always measure. That stuff is messed up too easily.
With baking and cooking grains, I always always measure. That stuff is messed up too easily.
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I measure when I'm baking, but if I'm just throwing some dinner together I rarely measure. It lets you cater to your taste buds for the day, be more versatile.
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I don't bake, and I'm too lazy to measure, so I eyeball it =). I would classify the resulting food as, overall, OK. I need more practice.
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Depends on what the ingredient is and what I'm making. Like baking always measure! But stuff like honey pfft never measure!
-Reokue
-Reokue
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Aion Crux
Banned
i ever asked my friend whose job is a Chef. he says,we must know how to cook,composition of ingredients,and how to do the cut without peeking on the recipe if we wants to be succesful in our proffesion.
that might works when you're in fron of audience who wants to see your cooking skill
that might works when you're in fron of audience who wants to see your cooking skill
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for cooking, not really, but when making a cocktail, unless i was already drunk, measuring is key.
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Nikon wrote...
If it's for something important (work or a catering) I'll measure. Otherwise I'll just eyeball it, even moreso when I've already made a recipe before at work.With baking and cooking grains, I always always measure. That stuff is messed up too easily.
same
if its me idk if for someone else i measure cal me lazy if you will
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If i make it just for myself i eyeball it. but when I make something for other people I measure to look like I have never done it before and then it comes out tasting excellent and they are dumbfounded by my culinary genius.
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Eyeballing when I make salad, cook in general etc. Even when making things for a larger dish etc, I eyeball as weighing stuff would take way too long.
Regarding baking: it depends on the material. I am pretty good in guessing most things, however I weigh out the important stuff as you can screw up pretty badly and nobody likes bad pie :(
Regarding baking: it depends on the material. I am pretty good in guessing most things, however I weigh out the important stuff as you can screw up pretty badly and nobody likes bad pie :(
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It depends on what I'm making, if it's something I've never made or don't make to often I'll go precise, but then I'm more likely to eyeball it.
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I eyball helps that i can tell when somethingw ill be good or bad that and i can taste bys cent so i don't evn need to ry it generally so yeah i eyball and smell as well as trust the psychic chest pains (it's true when i get chest pains something bad happens kinda like the classic farmers bunion pains for bad weather)
But anyways yeah i can gauge most things without measurieing wytaers the only thing i can't.
But anyways yeah i can gauge most things without measurieing wytaers the only thing i can't.
