Posted: 2/12/2013 4:25:26 PM EDT
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Have you ever had someone (not in the business of selling or competing in contests with food) refuse to give you a recipe?
I freely share mine and don't understand this philosophy. They were not joking. Good thing I saved a piece of the carrot cake to take back to my lab where I will spend the rest of my life trying to duplicate it. |
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Have you ever had someone (not in the business of selling or competing in contests with food) refuse to give you a recipe? I freely share mine and don't understand this philosophy. They were not joking. Good thing I saved a piece of the carrot cake to take back to my lab where I will spend the rest of my life trying to duplicate it. I won't hand out mine... I stopped cooking by recepie years ago, so I couldn't give one out if I wanted. "Some" of this, a "sprinkle" of that....and that's if I even remember what I used at the time. |
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Have you ever had someone (not in the business of selling or competing in contests with food) refuse to give you a recipe? I freely share mine and don't understand this philosophy. They were not joking. Good thing I saved a piece of the carrot cake to take back to my lab where I will spend the rest of my life trying to duplicate it. I won't hand out mine... I stopped cooking by recepie years ago, so I couldn't give one out if I wanted. "Some" of this, a "sprinkle" of that....and that's if I even remember what I used at the time. What is it for? |
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Have you ever had someone (not in the business of selling or competing in contests with food) refuse to give you a recipe? I freely share mine and don't understand this philosophy. They were not joking. Good thing I saved a piece of the carrot cake to take back to my lab where I will spend the rest of my life trying to duplicate it. I won't hand out mine... I stopped cooking by recepie years ago, so I couldn't give one out if I wanted. "Some" of this, a "sprinkle" of that....and that's if I even remember what I used at the time. What is it for? I don't cook anything by recepie. Ask me to cook chicken marsala, or chili, or lemon grass chicken, or bulgolgi, or ribs... It is all done by taste and memory. |
| Yes, a co-worker makes some sort of brownie at Christmas. One of the best I've ever tasted. It seems to have a buttery toffee topping and a hard layer of homemade icing. But then again, I am not sure what it really is or what is in it. It is a secret homemade recipe and she won't give it to anyone, not even her own relatives. I joke with her that one day, I will send a piece to a lab for a breakdown. |
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I think not giving out your receipie is a bit prickish and I don't understand the reasoning behind it. Is it very important that you be the only one who can make a certian dish? Great-grandfather had a "secret family recipe" that he revealed to a man named Boiardi, who then went on to become a famous chef because of the recipe. 
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I think not giving out your receipie is a bit prickish and I don't understand the reasoning behind it. Is it very important that you be the only one who can make a certian dish? Great-grandfather had a "secret family recipe" that he revealed to a man named Boiardi, who then went on to become a famous chef because of the recipe. Maybe it is because most of my recipies are from Alton Brown or because I can't remember what I ate 3 days ago much less a complex recepie. My mother gave me a cookbook she made. Most of the receipies were probally from the back of cans. |
I don't get it either. I had a neighbor give me some peanut brittle once. It was pretty good, so I asked for the recipe. Oh HELL NO! That's a secret recipe!  I'm like ok. Got another recipe of peanut brittle and it tastes about the same. 
The fun of cooking is doing it with other people, teaching it, and enjoying the food. I can't give a single shit if someone else wants to make what I make. I'll still make it better anyway. 
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| It depends who is asking for the recipe. If it's someone asking for something from foodnetwork.com or something like that, I just tell them that's where I got it. There are some recipes of mine I have tweeked for years and in the past I gave a recipe or two away. Those people then made my recipe exact and take all the credit, especially one that won $500 bucks in a contest. The guy can't cook worth shit and then makes coin from my years of trial and error. Yeah, never again. |
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It depends who is asking for the recipe. If it's someone asking for something from foodnetwork.com or something like that, I just tell them that's where I got it. There are some recipes of mine I have tweeked for years and in the past I gave a recipe or two away. Those people then made my recipe exact and take all the credit, especially one that won $500 bucks in a contest. The guy can't cook worth shit and then makes coin from my years of trial and error. Yeah, never again. Do you also enter competative cooking contests? |
| I'm with the cook by taste and memory crowd. I haven't followed a recipe for years, other than as a basic framework for what is being cooked. I'm also really bad at estimating how much of something I put in. I don't know if its a cup or a tablespoon, I just know it's enough and it tastes good. |
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Have you ever had someone (not in the business of selling or competing in contests with food) refuse to give you a recipe? I freely share mine and don't understand this philosophy. They were not joking. Good thing I saved a piece of the carrot cake to take back to my lab where I will spend the rest of my life trying to duplicate it. I won't hand out mine... I stopped cooking by recepie years ago, so I couldn't give one out if I wanted. "Some" of this, a "sprinkle" of that....and that's if I even remember what I used at the time. What is it for? I don't cook anything by recepie. Ask me to cook chicken marsala, or chili, or lemon grass chicken, or bulgolgi, or ribs... It is all done by taste and memory. Me too, I don't measure shit. |
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It depends who is asking for the recipe. If it's someone asking for something from foodnetwork.com or something like that, I just tell them that's where I got it. There are some recipes of mine I have tweeked for years and in the past I gave a recipe or two away. Those people then made my recipe exact and take all the credit, especially one that won $500 bucks in a contest. The guy can't cook worth shit and then makes coin from my years of trial and error. Yeah, never again. Do you also enter competative cooking contests? Some on occasion. Mostly to places like Better Homes and Gardens, local newspapers and TV stations, etc. We've won a few here and there. |