Caught my friend mixing powdered eggs into muffin batter. She said they rose just like normal and tasted great. Now she laughs at anyone who calls it a cooking crime, lmao.

But does your help actually teach them anything long term? I mean, showing someone a shortcut versus just doing their tasks for them (which is what people usually mean by coddling) are two totally different things.

Just realized my last pork butt probably looked like it was wearing a fat belt I forgot to take off. How do you know when you've trimmed enough?

Scrape off the fuzzy part and keep going, that's what my grandma always did. Mold happens on lots of foods and we don't throw the whole thing out. A bit of surface mold on starter isn't the same as it being rotten inside. Seems like we toss things too fast these days instead of seeing what can be saved.

The Buddy System exists for a reason. Gear can fail no matter how many times you check it. Another set of eyes underwater is your real backup.