[encom]

>Baking is much harder and less forgiving than any other kind of cooking. If you’re just starting to get into cooking, don’t start with baking.

Well, that depends a lot on what you're baking. Baking bread can be very easy, and very rewarding. There are few things more delicious than freshly baked bread with butter. There are some simple cakes that are also easy to make. But yes, fancy desserts are hard.

[Alex3917]

> But yes, fancy desserts are hard.

They’re not that hard, the issue is that most of the recipes online are lying to you. A lot of tips and tricks for working with pastries and chocolate are basically an oral tradition and aren’t well documented anywhere.

[mlyle]

There's a whole lot of things in baking that require more precision with proportions of ingredients and technique than ordinary cooking.