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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can’t learn how to bake by just reading a recipe or watching YouTube videos. You have to learn by doing it with someone who knows what they’re doing. It’s a skill passed down from one generation to another, and sadly that’s not happening as much anymore. [/quote]

There are a lot of self taught cooks out there. You can learn a lot by watching cooking shows and experimenting on your own.[/quote]

+1. A good cookbook with photos along with practice also works. [/quote]

Cooking is pretty easy though, even I can rustle up something reasonably edible. Baking is a whole other story. [/quote]

I feel like baking is easier for a novice. Start with a good recipe, follow directions exactly, and chances are, things will turn out. It’s when people get creative before they understand how baking works, that things go wrong (says the person that just subbed apple brandy for vodka in my pie crust).[/quote]
DP, but I kind of agree. Baking is so precise, for some people they can really excel at that. 1/4 tsp salt is easy. "Salt to taste" for a newbie cook is difficult and daunting![/quote]

Yes just follow a tried and true recipe and it should turn out ok. Get a basic betty crocker cookbook and start there. Google unfamiliar terms.[/quote]

Completely agree.With the internet it is too easy to Google "chocolate chip cookie recipe" and get a dud that some random mommy blogger published. Get a printed cookbook of cookies or cakes and follow it to the letter. Those recipes were developed and tested by professionals.[/quote]

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