Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes

Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by beloch on Sunday September 14, 2025 @06:53PM (#45244101)

Cookies are surprisingly sensitive to slightly different ingredients or practices. e.g. Using different brands of butter, different sizes of eggs, or storing the dough at different temperatures can have a large impact on the final product, even though the same recipe was followed.

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by MangoToupe on Sunday September 14, 2025 @07:42PM (#45244475)

Baking in general is very sensitive. I've made batches of cookies that I've tried to reproduce for years but, because I didn't take notes, could not. Hell even the altitude you bake at requires significant adjustment.

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by cheschire on Sunday September 14, 2025 @09:19PM (#45245086)

Cooking is art. Baking is science.

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by tayo42 on Monday September 15, 2025 @02:38AM (#45246775)

The baking is a science meme needs to die.

When your baking you need to learn to react to the dough that's in front of you.

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by sniffers on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:53AM (#45249774)

As someone who was a professional baker for years, agree. Baking very much has intuition and art like qualities. It's just less forgiving of loose measurements until you know what you are doing.

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by account42 on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @08:14AM (#45261200)

It's less for giving but not as unforgiving as some people make it out to be. Even less so when you don't demand commercial level consistent results that can be sold fungible products.

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by bluGill on Sunday September 14, 2025 @09:46PM (#45245220)

Though people have been baking in poor conditions for a long time. If peasants could bake bread without even a cast iron dutch oven maybe you can. Sure each batch is different but it works.

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by ceejayoz on Sunday September 14, 2025 @08:28PM (#45244776)

Volume-based measurements, too. One person's "half a cup" is not another's.

I've been much happier since I started weighing everything.

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by wink on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:53AM (#45248596)

Getting a new oven has invalidated every single time written down in a recipe here. (usually not too hard to adjust, but still)

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by account42 on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @08:13AM (#45261184)

That's why you measure result wherever possibly - poke the cake with a toothpick and see how much sticks to it, measure internal temperature for large meats, bake until the outside reaches the desired appearance, etc.

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