How closely do you follow the recipe when cooking?

[BCRanger10]

When you're cooking, baking, grilling, or whatever, how closely and carefully do you follow the recipe?

[NathanDavis]

I'm experienced enough to adjust recipes... lol

especially when it comes to heat/oven time and all that...

also for size/serving...

[worldscolide]

Depends on the recipe. If it's one of my own, or one of my grandfather's, I follow it to the letter. If it's some random one I tend to improvise and make it better.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

I'm actually awful at using recipes and do everything by feel. It's why I'm pretty decent at cooking but suck at baking.

[DishLady]

I glance at it, chuckle, and make whatever it is the way my gran taught me.

[mrkdvsn]

The only "cooking" I do is a specially made chili twice a week, and I add ingredients as I see fit, not following any recipe. My wife does all the rest of the cooking, following recipe's 80 to 100 percent of the time

[Nikki1989]

I experiment with very mixed results that I often regret.

[sage2021]

Exactly, then. I know that it will come out tasty.😋

[exitseven]

If it is the first time I am trying something I follow it exactly.

[nicfire171]

I use it as a general guideline but I add and remove stuff for flavoring. Baking has to be exact though

[Pterodon]

If it’s the first time I’m making something I follow it exactly

[Agape93]

Very unless it's mine, and then I eyeball it

[dreamstar72]

60% follow and 40% my way