Importance of a recipe

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Without a recipe, or not knowing how to do a meal, how would you made it?
The importance of using recipes is that when you are making a dish for the first time, it helps to know how the dish is originally supposed to taste, therefore make it according to the standard recipe. Afterwards, you can alter the recipes to cater to your own individual culinary taste.


Cooking is 10% art and 90% chemistry. Recipes are to cooks what formulas are to chemists. In the same way that a chemist is only one missing ingreidient away from disaster, a pinch more of an ingredient can ruin a meal. For consistent results, it is very important for cooks to follow recipes whenever possible. One vital cooking element provided by recipes is proportion. Another benefit of following recipes is consistency. Each ingridient in recipes seres one or more specific purposes, from generating gases to creating glutens to binding other ingredients together. Elimanating one of these essential ingredients also removes the chemistry behind it.