Does anyone else do “Iterative cooking”? I like to make sometime, and then make it again, with a little tweak to make it better. I record all of my ingredients and amounts of everything so I can cook consistantly. It’s my dream to make some favorites, and make them the same way every time.
Constant tweaks are normal. I do them all the time. But I don’t record everything. So the same meal will come out slightly differently every time. Recipes are great, but variation in ingredient quality require some adaption every time anyway. An apple is not always an apple. An eggplant is not always the same eggplant. Cooking “living” recipes is what makes this whole thing exciting.
Yes, quite often. I never record things though. Sometimes.that works, sometimes not. Making notes while I am cooking ruins my workflow, and takes away from valuable cleaning/ tidying time.
Sometimes I take a photo so I can look back at it later.
I don’t record any of my ingredients, but I do constantly tweak anything I regularly make, I’m always interested in how pizza dough, stir fry, steaks. Everything can be just a little bit better than the last time I made it.
Does not always work out!
But it keeps things interesting.
Every week I pick just a few recipes and cook from scratch for every meal. If there are any notable particulars, I have a recipe page on notion. If I learn anything, I add it to the recipe. Sometimes I add pictures of good examples.
Sometimes it gets repetitive during the week, but I try to keep it interesting with small variations. It is much cheaper to have one dinner for the week as well.
yup, I even thought of using git once so I could make branches of recipes but figured it was too much effort
