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by ForestCritter 972 days ago
Salt to taste, cook until brown, kneed until the dough is no longer sticky, everything about cooking is tasting and feeling. Moreover everybody has differences in their tastes and consistency preferences. Good recipe books teach you how to use ingredients and apply that knowledge to recipes and how to modify those recipes to your personal preferences. Sure an LLM can generate novel recipes but without the premise of taste, texture and food pairing tuned in to personal preference, the novel recipe is a crap shoot in the dark. The reality is, the more you learn to cook, the less you need recipes and a good cookbokk will teach you alot more than a pile of recipes.