I'm just a lowly prep cook.. my prep lead was training a line cook to do prep so we have a replacement if I'm sick/vacay.
The recipe in our book comes out to thin so I re-wrote the recipe to this. All of our recipes are in the lowest form, 2.5qts would be written 10cups in the book.
My lead told me the guy we're training for very confused by this recipe.. and it stumped her too being written on quarts.
So how is this confusing? Am I just losing my mind? (Possibly because there's no major skilled cooks in our kitchen 😅)
by HikingHippi
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It’s not confusing, they’re just stupid.
Are your eggs metric or standard?
As an european it is very much confusing so maybe he is too?
“At my last job we just opened the bag, put it in the machine and pressed the button. What is this mixing nonsense”.
LOL I’m staring at this for two minutes like…. Nothing?
I’d rewrite most of that in grams, zero chance I’m measuring honey by volume
How fucking huge is this bag man? 32 eggs and 8 cups of milk?
Seems simple to me.
32 eggs.
2.5 quarters of buttermilk.
2 quarters of milk.
4 supercups of butter.
1 supercup of honey.
1 bagwaffle mix (but I don’t know what a bagwaffle is.)
Do you have different size measuring cups that go from 1cup -> 4cups (one quart)? Once they start using those the recipes will make more sense
i use the same short hand so i’m not confused at all lol. the buttermilk usually comes in quarts, so super easy to measure too. (ngl i would prob also eyeball the 2 qt from a gallon of milk but only if no one was watching 😅)
I write mine all in grams. Foolproof.
That’s at least a million bucks worth of eggs
It’s not confusing… like, it’s doable, and conversions aren’t trouble since we all have pocket computers, but I will say that generally you don’t see quarts in recipes and for pro kitchens even cups are a bit strange to see. It’s kind of… “food blog recipe”-ish, if you know what I mean
I’d go kg/g and L/ml, or if the kitchen already has a convention to stick with that. If all your stuff is in cups, stick with it. If all the stuff is in grams, stick with that. Consistency.
Personally if the original was 10 cups, I’d rather see that instead of qts if I had to choose between them
People who aren’t experienced cooks often don’t know how to convert standard measurements. I finally placed a cheat sheet on the wall with basic conversions like 3 tsp = 1 tbsp, 4 tbsp = 1/4 cup, 4 cups = 1 quart, etc. But they still measure out 4 individual tablespoons rather than measuring 1/4 cup. Don’t even bother with a recipe that’s written in proportions like 1 part X and 2 parts Y. Just write it the way you want them to measure it. If it’s something that you do at different scales depending on the circumstance, write it both ways (1/2 recipe for weekdays, double recipe for Sunday, for example). It avoids confusion and ensures consistency between cooks.
Also, what you have shown is just an ingredient list. Is the procedure written somewhere else? Like should the butter be melted? Softened? How do cups convert to sticks/blocks of butter?Should all the liquid ingredients be combined prior to mixing with the dry? It may seem obvious to you or me, but someone new might throw a whole block of cold butter in.
You’d be surprised how many folks have a hard time with unit conversion. I remember during the original run of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, one question was “How many teaspoons are in a tablespoon?” and the contestant got it wrong.
You want to scale the measurement to whatever size measuring device they are going to use. If the liquid measure has cups up the side, use that. Since butter comes into the kitchen in one-pound blocks, I’d call it “ 2-1/4 pounds butter” unless you have a steady supply of melted butter, in which case… as you were.
Also… 32 eggs? Just get the cartons of liquid eggs and use 2 quarts of that. Or, pardon me, 8 cups.
That like for more than 1 person right?
When I was a baker it was good practice to have everything use the same unit of measurement when possible, I thought it was a good thing because ratios were easier to see this way, and I worked with the metric system.
But one example would be
>1000g of bread flour
>680 g of water
>100 g of olive oil
>10 g of ferment
50 g of salt
Or you could choose to use kilograms, instead
>1 kg of bread flour
0,680kg of water
0,100kg of olive oil
0,010kg of ferment
0,050kg of salt
But never mix the two, in a rush it could cause confusion in the prep person weighting everything going through units, for us bakers it was easier to read the recipe and its ratios/percentages if everything was using the same unit, so I’d say the problem with yours is that you’re using quarts and cups.
32 what kind of eggs? I am assuming that they should all be hard boiled, shells on
Your 5s look like Ss to me. Maybe thats why
Maybe they think buttermilk makes the milk and butter redundant.
They’re new, write it out like a real recipe for them. It’s not confusing if you already know, but these are very poor instructions for a baking recipe
Just assume they’ve never made this before
Do they throw it all in one bowl and whisk, or mix the wet’s first before slowly adding the dry’s? Should they be careful not to over mix? Is the butter cold, softened, or melted?
Better convert everything to mL, for accuracy
I get cups but I’ve never measured in cuties before
^L 1. SC Butter
Is it the 25# bag or the 5# bag of mix?
It’s clear as day. They may not be used to using different measurements. They need to practice that shit. It’s essential to be a good cook
Change it back to cups.
Chef, it says buttermilk, then it says butter and milk afterwards. Also if it’s 2.5qt butter and milk, why’s it say 4.5c butter?
I’m gonna rip one, be right back.
I remember a couple years ago, on a different subreddit, someone complaining about their girlfriend not being able to cook. It turned out anytime she saw 1/2 she thought it meant a 1/2 measuring cup. So if it said 3 1/2 c. milk, she used the 1/2 measuring cup 3 times. Same for 1/4 cup.
Maybe your cooks are seeing .5 and thinking “half a quart of buttermilk 2 times? Is that what that means?”
Otherwise, I don’t see any problems.