Does anyone else dislike recipes

[AKCooks]

I just find recipes don't include the tips, or that detail you really need like what heat you should have it on. Then it never tastes as nice as it should!

I've been doing live cooking classes with Diaspo and every dish has come out delicious. You have someone there guiding you those necessary details, and support every step of the way. Although you do have to be organised and buy your ingredients beforehand!

Does anyone else have this with recipes or is it just me!!

I think it may be the recipes you are following? All decent recipes should have the temperature length of time, ingredients etc and whilst I have made stuff I don't like, I've also made some fabulous food following recipes. That said, I'm an avid collector of recipes and cookbooks so perhaps am biased

I think there are some people who don't read and take in information in a recipe the same way as I do. When I follow a recipe I read the whole thing right through once (for the dreaded "leave in the fridge overnight" at the end of the third step, or "heat 2 litres of oil", or other showstoppers). Then I go through the ingredients and make sure I have them all, or a reasonable substitute. When it says "set the oven to 180c" as the first step that's what I do, before I do anything else.

Whereas DH...I've never seen anything like it. Picks a recipe because he likes the photo. Gets to dinner time and realises he only has half the ingredients. Goes out and buys ingredients, comes home and immediately starts chopping things, mixing things up, doesn't measure anything, a dash of this, oh I like curry why don't I add a dash of that, oh that looks much too dry, let's add more water. Gets to the bit to put it in the oven, puts it into the cold oven and then wonders why it's still watery and also not cooked an hour later. Also he never times anything, just does it "by feel" and surprise surprise it's either raw or like leather.

He now says he hates recipes and they never turn out for him the way they do for me. I honestly don't think it's strategic crapness - he just doesn't seem to process the steps in a recipe the same way I do. However, he can follow a video tutorial just fine (he followed a Nat's What I Reckon video to a T and made delicious spaghetti bolognese) so maybe some people are better suited to watch and learn than following a recipe written on paper.

I did chemistry A-level though, so I treat every recipe like a chemistry practical and follow it pretty closely the first time I make it and jot down notes as to how it went. Only go off-piste the second time depending on how it went the first time.