"blake murphy" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:38:10 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>>Sheldon wrote:
>>
>>
>>> > Given that I currently live in a very dry climate (often need more
>>> > liquid than stated) at high altitude (may need to adjust oven temp,
>>> > cooking time and occasionally add a bit more flour), following most
>>> > baked goods recipes in a 'relatively precise' manner is guaranteed to
>>> > fail often. It's easy enough to learn what textures a baking mix
>>> > should
>>> > have and get there without measuring anything precisely.
>>>
>>> Precisely. Of all cookery baking requires the *least* precision.
>>> People like to think precise measuing is important for baking because
>>> those are the people who don't understand the concepts involved, and
>>> therefore are frightened, really *ascared*.
>>
>>
>>Spoken like someone who is not a baker.
>
> are you kidding? sheldon is a butcher, a baker and a candlestick
> maker, as well as three men in a tub.
>
> your pal,
> blake


Sheldon is whatever enables him to join a conversation. He's flown
commercial jets, he's invented new alloys, he's done heart surgery, he's run
marathons in Europe. He paid someone to rework the drainage trench in his
yard because he was too busy doing nuclear inspections for the United
Nations and writing a book about laundry methods of the Inuits.