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Baking is a craft!
UnidentifiedFlyingCupcake:
This thread makes me long for the time, which will hopefully come soon, when I have a little bit of free time and I can start baking more often again!
faybepanda:
my motives for baking are selfish hahaha
when i bring baked goods to work, i love seeing the excited looks on the faces of my co-workers and all of the compliments they give me!
Ballard:
--- Quote from: Toba on 19 Jan 2008, 15:37 ---Today as I sat at the kitchen table, mixing poppy seeds into cookie dough, my house mate Lynda asked me what motivated me to bake cookies so often. I thought about it for a second, and told her that "I guess they taste good, are cheaper than the ones I could buy, and it's fun." But as I deployed the dough into formation on the cookie sheet, it got me thinking. Really, why do I enjoy baking so much?
Part of it may be my interest in chemistry, which was until a few years ago more important to me than computer science. There's a strong parallel to chemistry in baking; watching all the ingredients combine and react until I've created something that's larger than the sum of its parts.
Both chemistry and programming create something new, but there is much more unpredictability to code - the underlying reality can vary from installation to installation, and it can even change under your feet. Chemistry is solid and predictable. So is baking, now that I've achieved a certain level of skill at it. It's solid, real, and tactile.
When I bake my mind can wander free, unconscious of the worries and stress of the world. I don't have to plan for problems and the unexpected; everything just works.
Cross posted from my blog.
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This was interesting to read because I'm the complete opposite. I enjoy cooking much more than baking because the unpredictability excites me. I'm an impulsive person and I enjoy being able to toss in various ingredients and experiment.
Toba:
--- Quote from: Ballard on 24 Jan 2008, 11:44 ---This was interesting to read because I'm the complete opposite. I enjoy cooking much more than baking because the unpredictability excites me. I'm an impulsive person and I enjoy being able to toss in various ingredients and experiment.
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I'll be impulsive where the results of said impulses are actually appealing, thanks :)
Jasper:
--- Quote from: Caiphana on 18 Jan 2008, 20:59 ---I made some snickerdoodles.
I'm much too lazy to take a picture of them, but they passed the mother-in-law test.
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You know what's way better? Dinkerdoodles.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/01/02
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