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Friday, September 5, 2008
Does practice make recipes perfect?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When recently blogging about how to bake the “best” chocolate chip cookies, it made me wonder about the price of perfection.
Chefs spent multiple attempts reworking the classic Toll House chocolate chip to get it just right. Making these cookies required days of resting time and fancy expensive chocolate chips. The responses to the recipe showed that many readers were willing to take whatever extra steps were needed for perfection, while others were perfectly satisfied with the status quo.
It made me wonder how far you would go to perfect a recipe. You know how it is. Sometimes you make something that just isn’t quite right, but it’s not horrible either. When that happens to me, there are times when I go back and try to figure out what worked and what didn’t and remake it determined to iron out the kinks. But there are other times when I just throw in the towel and decisively “move on.”
How much effort do you put into perfecting a recipe? What makes you get back into the kitchen to give it one more try?
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