Baking is complicated.
It’s too precise.
Sometimes I can get the consistency right
and whatever I bake might taste good,
but it seems like
you have to be practically perfect
for it to end up beautiful
or even presentable.
For some reason,
recipes always start with
preheating the oven
rather than doing ninety percent
of the recipe first
since it always takes so long
to prepare.
And let’s be real,
whatever I bake
is never going to look like the photo.
I’ve always preferred cooking,
and even then,
I’m not all that great at it,
but it allows for more freedom.
Sure, you can still
screw a recipe up,
but often you can modify it
pivot from the original
experiment
and
play
and
make it into
something else amazing,
almost as if
you intended it.
Cooking is more forgiving,
and I could always use
a little more of that.