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Re:Based Cooking by cjak on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:36AM (#26420983)
Agreed. I find the tabular format of Cooking for Engineers excellent for this (for example, at the bottom of this brownies recipe: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/158/Dark-Chocolate...).

Julia Child's classic (https://archive.org/details/JuliaChildMasteringTheArtOfFrenc...) does something similar in free-form.

Re:Based Cooking by hnick on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:11AM (#26421198)
I get most of my recipes from YouTube these days. I can see the technique and result, which is valuable, but I make my own notes in a format that suits me, sometimes like Cooking for Engineers (group ingredients, do process, add next group, etc) but usually with a lot of bullet points and terse sentences.

Writing my own notes is great for understanding and retention. They get printed out, then tested to earn the right to a plastic sleeve and a place in the folder! Analogue with a digital backup.