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I was challenged to make bread without a recipe.

There it is.

>> No.20487165

You did good son

>> No.20487166

>>20487145
Not three bad can we see the crumb?

>> No.20487213

>>20487145
>I was challenged to make bread without a recipe.
goody for you, I do that all the time.

>> No.20487219

>>20487213
There was some faggot who said if you use recipes you're a cooklet
Truth is that once you really into cooking, if you don't keep notes, and you don't stock recipes, you're not cooking, you're just doing improv
Like that terrible jazz and poetry that bullshit people say is good
It's not good
Orchestras use sheet music, cooks use recipes

>> No.20487224

>>20487145
Why would you need a recipe to make bread? It's literally flour and water, optionally some kind if leavening like yeast or baking powder and flavorings.

>> No.20487226

>>20487219
cooklet. recipes are for teaching/learning, not for using. if you use a recipe for a meal you've done a dozen times before it's probably because you have no taste buds

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>>20487219
>There was some faggot who said if you use recipes you're a cooklet
and he is right.
bread does not need a recipe, you just have to know bakers percentages. Recipes are only needed if you want exact repeatable foods that you want to sell.

really good cooks improvise.

>> No.20487233

>>20487226
I started cooking 36 years ago, and my father was a chef
He taught me to take notes and use recipes, there's no possible way to remember it all

Keep on improvising, tho, U do U

>> No.20487238

>>20487219
>you're not cooking,
anything that involves mixing ingredients and making a meal for you or others is cooking.

always using a recipe exactly and not varying for reasons other than running a restaurant or bakery is not cooking it's following instructions.

any retard can do that, this whole board is a testament to that.

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>>20487232
>Recipes are only needed if you want exact repeatable foods that you want to sell
Or eat
I want to repeat things, that's why I write it all down
>so I don't have to remember

>> No.20487240

>>20487239
which proves you don't know how to cook. you know how to take notes.

>> No.20487254

>>20487240
Throw down
Make a cooking challenge
You can even pick the dish

>> No.20487593

>>20487254
tamales.
you start.

see you in a week.

>> No.20487627
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>>20487219
>You're cooking
>Ya dude

>> No.20487632

>>20487593
Done, son.

>> No.20488017

>>20487233
baking is all about intuition if you are just making bread. i only need to remember to measure out 3 cups of flour and 2 teaspoons of yeast, and shake some salt and sugar in. then i can kneed water in until i feel the hydration i want. recipes are good for finding out the baseline of a specific dough which you can replicate by remembering how it feels

>> No.20488035

>>20487232
>bread does not need a recipe, you just have to know a recipe.
retard

>> No.20488050

>>20488017
Make it the exact same 5 seperate times.

>> No.20488058

>>20487627
Kek this is old school

>> No.20488189

>>20488050
no, i am not running a business

>> No.20488829

>>20488035
formula, not a recipe.

>> No.20488870

>>20487145
Post moneyshot, retard.

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>>20487219
>you're not cooking, you're just doing improv

>> No.20488886

>>20487627
jesus christ get the fuck out of here you stupid idiots

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20488994

Crumb shot.

>> No.20489054

>>20488994
Money

>> No.20489250

>>20488994
Nice.

>> No.20489293

>>20487232
>>20487239
Using written language to describe cooking makes you a cooklet. 99.99% of all cooks in human history could not read or write.

>> No.20489307

>>20489293
There's nothing that prevents oral tradition from preserving recipes

>> No.20489351

>>20488017
I don't need a recipe! Baking is all about intuition!!
>proceeds to type out his bread recipe.

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>>20487219
I was ITT too.
I thought his main posit was
>If you have to use measuring shit like cups and...
Anyway, rolls look good.
If you have at least 10 years of cooking under your belt, anyone should be able to feel their way through a dish.
That's really the heart of cooking, innit?
Like the Teamaster said:
>Learn all the rules, perfect them, then forget them.
Baking of course requires knowledge of yeast and other leavening (1t soda to ½t salt; or 1 tsp of baking powder will lift 1 cup of flour in a recipe-depending on acids and other factors)
and HOW NOT TO KILL YOUR YEAST.
But other than that, any good cook can cowboy it.
>>20488994
Tasty--looks great for lil' shredded BBQ pork sliders.
What were the ingredients?
ACHAAAA, ACHHAAA!!

>> No.20489357

>>20487226
This. Fear the man who only cooks one meal, for he probably cooks it very, very well.

Oh wait, that's for the man that only has one gun. Nevermind, carry on.

>> No.20489540

these are rolls

>> No.20489562
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>>20489540
>rolls aren't bread

>> No.20489587

>>20487145
Looks good

>> No.20489662

>>20489562
bread is something you cut into slices and eat as a sandwich, not eat with butter like a roll

>> No.20489668

>>20487166
This. Post the interior action shot.

>> No.20489675

>>20489668
he did
SEE:>>20488994

>> No.20489677

>>20487145
I never follow recipes. Gets m in trouble some times, but given how autistic so many recipes are, I figure I make even vs. trying to make sense of what some of those dishes are trying to accomplish.

>> No.20489682

>>20487219
>terrible jazz
>Orchestras use sheet music
There is improvisation in classical and orchestral music too.

>> No.20489687

>>20489662
Stay in school, kid

>> No.20489699

>>20489675
Oh my bad
>>20488994
This looks like ass dude. Bone dry, 0% enrichment which is awful for rolls and you didn't even make an attempt at including any kind of flavor besides that either. Looks like you made french bread pellets which will be suitable for use only as cannonballs in about 2 days

>> No.20489845

if you need a recipe, you do not KNOW how to cook.

>> No.20489953

>>20489845
This. Recipes are great, and they're an important tool for learning how to make new things but if you've done something a dozen times before and STILL need to follow the recipe on paper instead of eyeballing it all then you're a retard and don't "know" anything. And if you have a lot of things you've made a dozen times each then you should be able to wing nearly anything. This is what knowing how to cook means. OP obviously does not know how to bake and his friends told him it's impossible to bake without a recipe so he just mixed flour, water, and yeast into 60% hydration mid-firm goop and made it into balls and baked until brown. Which works but his bread sucks

>> No.20490494

>>20489351
is it really a recipe if you don't know how much water to use?