This is terrible - forces me to scan across and then forget what I’m looking at.
It’s contrary to mis-en-place: ingredients listed first, then instructions.
My technical brain does like the visual, this just doesnt work in reality, especially as recipe complexity increases.
Mis-en-place format makes sense if you’re a professional or have adopted professional methods.
However, a lot of home cooks/bakers don’t prep everything first and instead grab as they go or “chunk” the recipe steps like in the image.
Preparing all the ingredients before starting is something you learn in school?
It refers to the setup required before cooking, and is often used in professional kitchens to refer to organizing and arranging the ingredients
That’s direct from Wikipedia and, yes, mis-en-place is taught in culinary schools.
You can certainly use it at home or even apply the principles outside of cooking.
However, I learned to cook in junior high home economics class and “mis-en-place” was not taught. I didn’t learn the term or its meaning until much later after adopting cooking as a hobby.
Unless a home cook has a strong interest in cooking as a hobby there’s lots of terms and techniques they wouldn’t likely know or apply. Think things like an aebleskiver or
tamagotchitamagoyaki pan.Edit: autocorrect
This isn’t a recipe? Recipes have 40 paragraph long stories about how your grandmother fell in love in Rome .
I’m not sure an excel chart is that much better than just saying “melt x, mix y, fold z and then bake” and the list of ingredients xyz.
Yeah, what if you want to do something like: “Seperate the yolks from the whites, beat the whites until they’re fluffy and then add sugar and mix with the rest.” And then a later step doing something with the yolks. I don’t see how you would do that here without it turning into an unreadable mess.
It is totally possible. This is basically a dependency graph. Separating the yolks simply goes closer to the left, and it produces new ingredients (or data, if you want): yolks and whites. They move right to their own sequential processes.
Or you could just list them separately to begin with. “3 egg whites” and “3 egg yolks” on separate rows.
Nah sorry doesn’t appeal to me at all.
Yea, this format sucks.
You Americans just can’t get away from the corporate brainwashing no matter how hard you try.
“Hershey’s cocoa powder”, what the fuck? Not only is naming a specific brand for a recipe bad enough, naming the worst shit imaginable is so fucking weird.
