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Read a recipe critically before I start
Before you commit two hours and a chicken to a recipe from a stranger.
Read the recipe below the way an experienced cook reads it before starting, and tell me what it is not telling me. 1. **Hidden time.** Resting, chilling, marinating, proving, or cooling that is buried in the method and not in the stated time. Give me the real total. 2. **Hidden equipment and ingredients.** Anything the method assumes that the ingredient list does not mention. 3. **Suspicious steps.** Quantities that look wrong, temperatures that look wrong, timings that are optimistic. Say which and what you would expect instead. 4. **Vague instructions.** Where it says "season to taste", "cook until done", "a splash", tell me what number to use. 5. **The step that decides the dish.** The one point where it will succeed or fail, and what to watch for there. 6. **What to prepare before starting**, since some of this will move too fast to chop as I go. If the recipe is clear and sound, say so briefly instead of manufacturing concerns. Recipe: My experience level with this sort of dish:
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Technique and recipes. Why a step works, what a recipe is not telling you, and writing down the dish you cook from memory.
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