Rant number 105
Today, as a treat for the wife for having to work overtime on a Saturday, I thought I would cook her something new as a treat.
Having watched 'Man Vs Food' earlier on, I decided to make her some American Style pancakes.
The problem with this of course was that I didn't know how - so I set about finding a recipe.
Now when I was a kid and me and my mum were to want to make something we would choose from her modest collection of cookbooks - professionally written and generally trustworthy.
These days though, things are a bit more complex. If you want a recipe and you (like me) don't have many recipe books you only have two choices : phone your mum or go online.
I chose the latter.
A quick google search brought up about 50,000 versions of the recipe I needed - I felt like I was on the home straight - I really did.
I wasn't though.
Firstly, I needed to choose one of them from all the options available.
Which is the thing about Internet recipes: everyone can do it better than everyone else. How the hell do you choose from the thousands of iterations? The best picture, the best write up, the one with the silliest name? There are endless options.
Then, once you've chosen one, you've got to work out how to follow the recipe properly.
Even something simple like quantities can be confusing. Milk for instance can be measured in cups, fluid ounces and millilitres to name a few.
Then there are ambiguous instructions such as 'melt some butter, allow to to cool then mix in.' Cool how much, heat how much? It's a minefield.
Then, there is the fact that you never know if you've really done it right. My result today was very yummy, but I'm not sure if it was as it should have been. What a pain.
Bloody recipes
Rant over
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