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How hard is cooking when following a recipe exactly?

You get a cookbook, and it claims that all the recipes will take 30 minutes, but they never do -...

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15.06 28 Jul 2026


How hard is cooking when following a recipe exactly?


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15.06 28 Jul 2026


You get a cookbook, and it claims that all the recipes will take 30 minutes, but they never do - and all of the ingredients measurements seem off. Plus, the American recipes may as well be in Latin!

So, why can it be so hard to follow a recipe, and how are they created?

Agnes Boucher Hayes, Home Economist, joins Seán to discuss.


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