"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 1/27/2016 11:21 AM, Helpful person wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 9:17:21 PM UTC-5, graham wrote:
>>
>>> Cookery writers have watches from Salvador Dali's estate. Whenever they
>>> say 2-3 minutes, you can easily double or triple that time, even when
>>> they say they have confirmed the recipes on domestic equipment.
>>> Graham
>>
>> So true. Unfortunately there's no replacement for experience.
>>
>
> True! That's why I like recipes that make you use your senses rather than
> time. Graham's comment made me laugh because on Christmas morning I made
> baked French toast and the recipe said to bake for 25 minutes so I was
> basing my timing on that. I don't know if I used a different kind of
> bread, too many liquids or what, but it took about an hour and a half to
> bake, and one of them was still underdone. So, I was late for our
> Christmas brunch.

best to experiment ahead of time.