LogFAQs > #937566401

I'm more a fan of getting a theoretical understanding of what each ingredient does rather than relying on experimentation and potentially ruining my food, but once I have that, I'll make tweaks or substitutions based on that understanding to see how it works. Some things work better than others, but I usually do end up with something edible enough, and given that that was my goal in starting to cook/bake in the first place, I'd say that's preferable to higher-stakes experimentation.

Of course, then there are the times that I forget ingredients altogether, but that's less of an experiment and more of a mistake.

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