OK, it's official ... I have no baking-fu.

[unixronin]

I am, as of this afternoon, 0 for 3.  Even when following the recipe exactly, including the undocumented "wait five minutes here" step (which cymrullewes told me about this morning), I cannot make bread even using an automatic bread machine.  You know, the kind where you dump in the ingredients, push the "START" button, and it does everything else.  Even if cymrullewes supervises the measuring and adding of the ingredients, if I do the measuring and adding and the pushing of the button, the loaf will fail.

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Cooking v. Baking

[rain-manpnw.livejournal.com]

Alaric-

Mo and I are the same way. I can cook, but can't bake. She bakes, but can't cook. We postulated that the skillsets are sufficiently different to make one specialize one way or the other.

Don't sweat it. You already make a wunnerful mushrooms marengo.

Re: Cooking v. Baking

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yup, cymrullewes and I pretty much agreed that's our breakdown too. The difference is, Cymru can cook, I just cook better than she does -- while I can't bake to save my life. My |V|4|) 84|<1|/|9 5|<1llz0rz are the baker's equivalent of being unable to boil water without burning it.

Re: Cooking v. Baking

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Rain, you know we're that way already. :-)