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I don't understand recipes that start off with
step 1: preheat oven
steps 2-5: make dough
step 6: chill dough overnight
and the actual baking starts around step 8 or 9.
Clearly I'm not gonna run the oven all night. Is this just to make a point about "read all directions before diving in"? A prank?
It gives the impression that nobody bothered to proofread the thing and makes it really hard for me to trust that it'll turn out well.
@sunflowerinrain Culinary Cargo Cult! I like it.
@khird Baking recipes must begin with "Preheat the oven". This is how it has always been, and so it must continue. We don't know why, but if we break this tradition a Dire Doom will fall upon us. Do not question the sacred boilerplate text.