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Old 12-06-2014, 05:53 AM   #4
johndallman
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Default Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Cooking

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Originally Posted by Tinman View Post
I Know some guys who were cooks in the army & once one of them went to make breakfast for his family & realized that the only recipe he knew for scrambled eggs started with 12 dozen eggs...

A technique would mean that there should be no penalties going smaller & I'm not sure if that's realistic.
That sounds like a familiarity issue: just dividing quantities should work. I was assuming that basic training for cooks is done with fairly small quantities, simply to save wastage on the inevitable mess-ups.
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