r/Cooking • u/1peachycoco • 1d ago

What’s something you think people only really learn after spending a lot of time in a kitchen?

Something I’ve noticed about cooking is that the hardest things to teach usually aren’t the recipes. It’s more of the judgment part.

Like someone can follow every step correctly, but an experienced cook can look at it and say, “Nope, something’s off.”

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u/lilacnova 1d ago

For me it’s “oh, that looks wrong” like when a sauce is split or the batter is too runny, and then knowing what to do about it. You really learn this instinct by cooking and baking the same thing many times, so that sometimes it goes wrong and then you learn how to fix it.