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c/lpt · by JCSpark@lemmy.ca · 3y

What is your favorite "rule of thumb?"

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4 Comments

tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

In cooking and baking: you can always add more heat. You can't take it out. Same thing with ingredients: you can always add more, you cant (always) take it out. So taste as you go.

JCSpark@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Very simar to measure twice, cut once. Unless you have a biscuit joiner, that is...

mack7400@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y

For me, it's like

  • measure twice
  • cut once
  • swear
  • get more material
  • measure thrice
  • creep up on the measurement
  • swear louder
  • get more material
  • cut cut cut
  • cry
  • fish the first cut out
  • make it fit
oyzmo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

If something seems to good to be true, it most likely is...