Any Home Bakers Here?

[User395221]

thanks violinplayer123, that is a really enjoyable video. She's so enthusiastic and makes it look so simple. They always do, the people on youtube, then when you try it for the first time, it doesn't go exactly the same. My replication of Georges Pepin deboning a chicken could have gone on "Funniest Home Videos" (I got it done, just not in the effortless way he did in the movie)

 

[sunflour]

thanks violinplayer123, that is a really enjoyable video. She's so enthusiastic and makes it look so simple. They always do, the people on youtube, then when you try it for the first time, it doesn't go exactly the same. My replication of Georges Pepin deboning a chicken could have gone on "Funniest Home Videos" (I got it done, just not in the effortless way he did in the movie)

But the youtube folks get to do retakes to get things perfect

 

[hannahsflock]

I love to cook and bake! My Dad taught me everything I know, and I've been cooking/baking since I was 9 years old.

PS: I'm craving chocolate cake now for some reason

 

[sunflour]

I love to cook and bake! My Dad taught me everything I know, and I've been cooking/baking since I was 9 years old.

PS: I'm craving chocolate cake now for some reason

You had to mention chocolate

I also started baking young - my dad was the biscuit expert, but mom was best at all else. I love baking, but cooking is not my cup of tea

 

[MagpieDucks]

But the youtube folks get to do retakes to get things perfect

In her first macaron video she shows her fails and they do not look pretty. Of course her final product was perfect!

 

[User395221]

In her first macaron video she shows her fails and they do not look pretty. Of course her final product was perfect!

oh sure, I bet Georges Pepin couldn't do a chicken when he first started. It just looks so straightforward and effortless when they do it. Swedish chef off the Muppets when I do.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My Dad was cook in a truck stop when he first came back from the war taught me allot he was a better cook than MA

 

[N F C]

My grandmother was my intro to baking. My granddad was injured in WWI so grandma had to go to work. She provided for her family by being the baker at the local school (grades K-8) plus running a boarding house for the single teachers in their little town. Grandma could make everything from bread and dinner rolls, to doughnuts and cinnamon rolls, pies, cookies, etc. without a single written recipe. And everything was delicious. I always wanted to be a baker like her (still working on that).

 

[User395221]

Grandma could make everything from bread and dinner rolls, to doughnuts and cinnamon rolls, pies, cookies, etc. without a single written recipe.

I think "back then" cooking was a more widespread skill than now. You had to make things because they didn't have everything at the supermarket that they have now. If you wanted a nice cake, you had to make it. Cakes in the shop were pretty ordinary. Same with dressmaking, knitting/crochet. If you wanted a nice warm jumper, you knitted it. They didn't have the range in the shops they do now.

 

[sunflour]

without a single written recipe

It is amazing to remember how they could bake without a written recipe - I so wish I had spent more time in the kitchen with both my Mom and Grandmom.

"back then" cooking was a more widespread skill than now.

For sure. Many young folks think heating up a prepared, packaged item is cooking