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Guess everyone learns this at some point. I just skip any recipe that doesn't give me volume or weight for everything. Otherwise, the chance of messing up the recipe is too high.
You must do some high stakes cooking. I always tweak recipes, sometimes even if I've never made it before.
Sometimes it doesn't matter much, sometimes it does. There are probably some recipes I'd give a go. But really, it doesn't actually come up all that often. I think a lot of people have converted cans in old recipes to actual measurements before posting online.
My family doesn't really have any recipes they passed down. Pretty sure they did everything by feel.
So many family recipes are documented this way, though, so it's a significant problem when these are handed down.
"I just skip grandma's chili because she didn't record it using volume or weight for everything" isn't a thing people say or do.
You see, this is resolved by having no family recipes handed down to you. Like myself.
I have zero recipes handed down. But a while back I made an effort to remember every standard meal my mom made in the 70s and 80s and re-create them. If I had a question on some detail I'd ask her.
So nothing handed down on paper but I did get all the information.
That doesn't really help when you need X amount of something and everything is sold in Y amounts.
While some ingredients this isn't an issue, I've run into this for pasta sauce/paste, coconut milk, canned beans, etc. which are hard to work around.
I work around it fairly often. It can be inconvenient for sure. I think I end up avoiding those types of recipes if I'm not going to be cooking with those ingredients often enough. But for ones that I do, coconut curries funnily enough, I just deal with having some in my fridge at pretty much all times.
Other times I substitute the canned/frozen version for fresh since you can buy the right amount.