MeritKeep

Reading a recipe critically

Which instructions are load-bearing and which are the author's habit, and spotting the step that will not work in your kitchen before you start.

core~1.5hWe check the technical side. Whether it's any good is your call
The barWhat counts as knowing this

Mark up a recipe separating what must be followed from what can be varied, with reasons

That sentence is the bar. It only counts once your work shows you can do it. Reading about it does not.
Prove itA check for this one skill

Up to 2 questions on this skill alone, marked against the bar beside this. It stops as soon as the answer is clear. No account, and your answers are not kept.

01 · Prerequisites

Where it sits

No prerequisites — this is a starting point in Home Cooking.
02 · Also helpful

Helpful, but not required

03 · What comes next

What it unlocks

Start on Home Cooking

Every skill above, ordered by what depends on what, with the projects above that as the evidence you actually did it. We work out where you already are first, so the path skips what you can do.

About three minutes to set up. Nothing is marked until you hand something in.Start this path
Part of Home Cooking.

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