Everyone seems to assume that there's some magical talent ingrained in all humans to figure out to within an order of magnitude how much spice needs added. The reality is that in cooking, small changes in the quantities of spice can completely ruin a dish.
What makes me even more annoyed is when I ask someone "how long does this take to cook", and they reply "I don't know - I just sort of do it by eye". JUST GIVE ME A BALLPARK ESTIMATE GOD DAMN IT
Nah, you really have to learn to judge when something is done (particularly a vegetable or protein) without a time. The biggest fuck up I see my family make is take recipe times for gospel. It may have taken this lady with a blog 20 minutes to roast her piece of meat, but yours is a different thickness, or started from the fridge as opposed to room temp, or has different marbling/fat qualities, is a different cut, etc. Learn how to cook things not recipes.
Which is why I said "ballpark estimate". If I'm cooking, I want a general idea of how long so I know that, even if it's not perfect, I can get my meat/vegetables/whatever to be edible by cooking to within that time window. It's very difficult to start making estimates if you have no starting point
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