Ha! You and my wife, you don’t read the whole recipe before cooking. She often sends me back out to the store to get ingredients she forgot or it takes longer because she didn’t read the steps all the way through. My wife is a great cook, but sometimes her cooking annoys the heck out of me!
Sure, but I still expect directions to follow a logical order! A well-written recipe doesn’t require me to read through the entire thing to complete it without doing some step that CAN’T BE UNDONE!
Yeesh, the author this particular recipe should have just written each step on a different card and shuffled them for how organized this thing was!
Back in the before times when I worked on books, cookbooks were THE WORST nightmares for copyediting and composition. (Fun to read, but hell to produce.) Even travel guidebooks were a day in the park by comparison.
So, just post the first draft on the internet? What could go wrong? 🙂
SurlyQueen
Man, I’m just gonna rewrite all my recipes the way my Mom does. She’s extra classy and has all the dry stuff measured out first and THEN the wet ingredients whenever possible. Her recipes are WAY organized!
I don’t have the words or brain power (it’s late) to thank you properly, but still, *THANK YOU* for introducing me to the epic that is Cooking Comically.
15 thoughts on “#729 Eggplant”
Iris
Ha! You and my wife, you don’t read the whole recipe before cooking. She often sends me back out to the store to get ingredients she forgot or it takes longer because she didn’t read the steps all the way through. My wife is a great cook, but sometimes her cooking annoys the heck out of me!
SurlyQueen
Sure, but I still expect directions to follow a logical order! A well-written recipe doesn’t require me to read through the entire thing to complete it without doing some step that CAN’T BE UNDONE!
Yeesh, the author this particular recipe should have just written each step on a different card and shuffled them for how organized this thing was!
Typeminer
Back in the before times when I worked on books, cookbooks were THE WORST nightmares for copyediting and composition. (Fun to read, but hell to produce.) Even travel guidebooks were a day in the park by comparison.
So, just post the first draft on the internet? What could go wrong? 🙂
SurlyQueen
Man, I’m just gonna rewrite all my recipes the way my Mom does. She’s extra classy and has all the dry stuff measured out first and THEN the wet ingredients whenever possible. Her recipes are WAY organized!
Kaunisenkeli
As someone who has developed her own recipes (once upon a time I was writing a cookbook), the recipe in this comic is extremely poorly written.
Wolf of Words
Poorly written directions are so annoying. I agree with you taking initiative as that’s something I do all the time as well.
SurlyQueen
My initiative was a success and this dinner was DELICIOUS!
Jak
Ever seen the Cooking Comically recipe webcomic? Pretty good about avoiding this sort of thing.
Esmeralda Anistasia
I don’t have the words or brain power (it’s late) to thank you properly, but still, *THANK YOU* for introducing me to the epic that is Cooking Comically.
SurlyQueen
I’ll definitely check it out!
maninblack
Probably better that way
E. Bernhard Warg
“This thing reads like interrociter instructions!”
Monks Hand Games
What kind of recipe doesn’t list *all* the steps in exact order?!
Urrk…my OCD…!
SurlyQueen
A poorly thought through one, THAT’S what!
Esmeralda Anistasia
Maybe she sliced the eggplant lengthwise?
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