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Serious question, did anyone else learn to cook before the internet?
I was cleaning out my grandma's old recipe box last weekend and found a note she wrote in 1987 about how to tell if a cake is done by sticking a toothpick in it. It hit me that I learned almost everything about cooking from YouTube videos and blogs, not from family or cookbooks. Has anyone else had that moment where you realized how much the way we learn basic stuff has changed?
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the_alice18d ago
Oh man, I still half expect a YouTube video to pop up and explain why my bread didn't rise every time I bake. Grandma just had to know things by feel, while I'm over here treating a cake like a science experiment with timers and thermometers. Guess we traded family secrets for search bars and it's mostly worked out okay.
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vera_palmer18d ago
I read this thing recently about how grandmothers actually did use a kind of science, they just called it "feel" after years of trial and error. It made me think of you @the_alice and how we're finally catching up with their methods, just through Google instead of experience.
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