Do you keep a baking/cooking diary?

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I bake bread 3 to 4 times a week, following various recipes and with mainly tasty results, but always tinkering with what goes in the mix and at what weight and all the other variables behind making bread.
Likewise, scones and flapjack at least once a week.
Just wondering how anyone records their baking, and in what medium? Must admit I'm edging towards a notebook and pencil rather than my notes on my phone or any app.

Mike
 
I keep mine in a notebook. Last recipe made was pretzels.
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I did when I started sourdough baking.
Not writing much down these days as I found a recipe that works for my climate.
I will make notes if I tey something new.
Pen & paper. I use a 17-ring ordner/multi map/"box file" so I can add pages if needed
 
Since I mainly cook from recipes, I jot notes right in the cookbook on what worked, what didn’t, what I changed, and how I liked the finished dish.

If it’s an online recipe, if there was a problem with it, I just don’t make that one again, since there are a bazillion recipes for any given dish online.
 
TastyReuben said:
Since I mainly cook from recipes, I jot notes right in the cookbook on what worked, what didn’t, what I changed, and how I liked the finished dish.
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That's what I do.

If it's an online recipe and I tweak, I'll copy and paste, then add in my tweaks.

If it's something I come up with, it's written up and stored electronically.

My recipes are on my phone, stored in cloud, or posted in a forum.
 
I don't bake (just because we don't eat that sort of thing, except for the occasional bread loaf), but I love to to smoke meats and to cook, especially French recipes. Over the last 2 or 3 years, I've began typing up all of the recipes I like, which usually include my own adjustments and/or are amalgamations of various recipes, and I document the cookbooks, websites, and/or Youtube channels that I pulled from for further reference. At the moment, I have two (2) 2.5" ring binders busting at the seams, and really need to add another. The hard part is taking the time to keep after it and not fall behind that I forget to add things or remember where I got them from.
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I use all formats because I prefer to follow the instructions on paper, not a screen, that goes dark just as I wander over to look and it with hands covered in stuff 😂

But it bugs me that my paper recipes are all over the place so I can be somewhere and not have access to it.
I always print out online recipes and alter them with a pen. Then I’ll scan them or snap them with my phone and put them in my recipe album. Sometimes I’ll screenshot recipes and type the alterations on top with the edit function on the photo app.

I buy a lot of cookery books and I’ll write in the margins of those but I’ll also take a pic of the marked up version and put that in the phones album or notes too.
Sometimes I make so many alterations to the method that I just have to re-write the whole thing but again I’ll have a digital and paper copy.

My main irritation is my inability to pick one place to put them and stick with it. Some are saved in ‘Notes’ some are saved in ‘Pages’ some are in a recipe photo album, a lot in traditional ring binder, some actual dishes get snapped but don’t make it into the album and some are saved as links in websites that I’ve forgotten to print out.

Oh that and my habit of making up names for dishes and not giving it a second thought until I need it and can’t remember what daft name I gave it. The latest it Beef Bogey. Its Bulgogi but the next time I want that recipe I probably won’t remember that 😆
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
I use all formats because I prefer to follow the instructions on paper, not a screen, that goes dark just as I wander over to look and it with hands covered in stuff 😂

But it bugs me that my paper recipes are all over the place so I can be somewhere and not have access to it.
I always print out online recipes and alter them with a pen. Then I’ll scan them or snap them with my phone and put them in my recipe album. Sometimes I’ll screenshot recipes and type the alterations on top with the edit function on the photo app.

I buy a lot of cookery books and I’ll write in the margins of those but I’ll also take a pic of the marked up version and put that in the phones album or notes too.
Sometimes I make so many alterations to the method that I just have to re-write the whole thing but again I’ll have a digital and paper copy.

My main irritation is my inability to pick one place to put them and stick with it. Some are saved in ‘Notes’ some are saved in ‘Pages’ some are in a recipe photo album, a lot in traditional ring binder, some actual dishes get snapped but don’t make it into the album and some are saved as links in websites that I’ve forgotten to print out.

Oh that and my habit of making up names for dishes and not giving it a second thought until I need it and can’t remember what daft name I gave it. The latest it Beef Bogey. Its Bulgogi but the next time I want that recipe I probably won’t remember that 😆
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Keep them all next to the slushy machine or the outside kitchen???
 
Barriehie said:
Keep them all next to the slushy machine or the outside kitchen???
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Sounds like that would involve making a concerted effort to keep them in one place 😂
Looking at and reading recipes is my main go to thing to relax. If I ever went missing they’d just have to follow the scattered trail of recipes I leave behind me 😆
 
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