{"id":1278,"date":"2009-10-09T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T14:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2017-02-16T17:49:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:49:45","slug":"martha-stewart-recipes-dont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/martha-stewart-recipes-dont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Stewart Recipes Don&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t mean to pick on one person.  It\u2019s not only Martha Stewart recipes that don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>The best cookbooks have recipes that don\u2019t work.  You can take a food TV network recipe and try it three times, you\u2019ll get three results.  As a matter of fact, search food network recipes and you\u2019ll find multiple ideas pointing to the same result.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zifs-SD7cjo\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Why would these people and publishers have recipes that don\u2019t work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The answer is simple.\u00a0 Recipes don\u2019t teach you to cook any more than having sheet music teaches you to play piano.\u00a0 Certainly, the step-by-step instructions of the best cookbook recipes can be reassuring to many home cooks.\u00a0 It\u2019s much easier to follow someone else\u2019s opinion of how something should be cooked than to create your own recipe.\u00a0 The sacrifice you make in following a food TV network recipe is that you\u2019re trying to duplicate what was originally created by some food TV show.<\/p>\n<p>Your stove is different than the \u201ctest kitchen\u201d.\u00a0 Theirs is gas, yours is electric.\u00a0 Your pans are made of a different metal than theirs were.\u00a0 Your chicken breast is twice as thick as the one used to write the recipe.\u00a0 With all these variables, how can a written recipe, even if it is a Martha Stewart recipe, be duplicated exactly every time by people of varying skill levels in the kitchen?\u00a0 It can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s someone\u2019s lament published in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Washington Post<\/span> entitled <em>\u201cMartha Stewart Recipes Don\u2019t Work<\/em>\u201d by Kim O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/mighty-appetite\/2008\/12\/chat_leftovers_runny_fruit_pie.html\">http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/mighty-appetite\/2008\/12\/chat_leftovers_runny_fruit_pie.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I found a recipe for a cranberry meringue pie (supposedly a Martha Stewart recipe) that calls for boiling the fruit and setting it with corn starch. First time I made it, it was gorgeous. It took hours to set, but was a huge hit. Second time, it didn&#8217;t set at all and we had lovely &#8220;soup&#8221;(we poured over vanilla ice cream and ditched the crusts) Third time, it set in the pan and was rubber and inedible. As far as I know, I followed the recipe each time.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>The response<\/strong><\/em><em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA few things to note: The recipe, as published on the MS site, is for a batch of mini pies made in a muffin tin. I\u2019m wondering if this is why you\u2019re having uneven results with the filling &#8212; there\u2019s just too much volume in a nine-inch pie plate for a consistently \u201cgelled\u201d filling. \u00a0I also noticed a discrepancy at the cornstarch \u201cslurry\u201d stage\u2026&#8230; \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rather than reading piano sheet music to learn one song, learn to actually PLAY the piano by studying the notes and how they combine for a melody.\u00a0 Instead of following a recipe to create one meal, learn to cook by studying <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Basic Cooking Methods<\/span> to create your own recipes and meals that come from your creativity and desired ingredients.\u00a0 When you create the recipe, you\u2019re better than the best cookbook recipes, and Martha Stewart recipes won\u2019t ever let you down again.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be examining some of the most popular and successful cookbook recipes for ways that basic cooking methods can solve the variables we find.<\/p>\n<p>Cook like a chef at home in 16 weeks, guaranteed with my <a href=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\">online cooking classes<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/logo-01.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" title=\"logo-01\" src=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/logo-01.png\" alt=\"Web Cooking Classes\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\"><br \/>\nGet a FREE 14 day trial in WebCookingClasses.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online cooking classes will empower you over the inherent problems with recipes.  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