I feel like you’re very passionate about this and good on you!
But some people may not even want to know how to cook. They want to read a recipe, cook it, and have an okay (or maybe even spectacular!) meal from the recipe.
Recipes are there as instructions for what worked when somebody else did it, they aren’t supposed to be teaching you how to cook, they’re saying ‘do these steps exactly this way and you should get some decent food’.
If the recipe was for a different meal and someone has just changed the ingredients because bAcOn, this isn’t a recipe based on something somebody did, instead it’s a recipe for (chuckles to himself smugly) disaster.
Telling people it’s their fault because they don’t know how to cook and should know better than to follow a recipe just seems combative.
I feel like you’re very passionate about this and good on you!
But some people may not even want to know how to cook. They want to read a recipe, cook it, and have an okay (or maybe even spectacular!) meal from the recipe.
Recipes are there as instructions for what worked when somebody else did it, they aren’t supposed to be teaching you how to cook, they’re saying ‘do these steps exactly this way and you should get some decent food’.
If the recipe was for a different meal and someone has just changed the ingredients because bAcOn, this isn’t a recipe based on something somebody did, instead it’s a recipe for (chuckles to himself smugly) disaster.
Telling people it’s their fault because they don’t know how to cook and should know better than to follow a recipe just seems combative.
Don’t want to learn to cook that’s cool too, just don’t complain when things go badly. Just like anything else in life.