Cooking

Overview

Cooking is, per this wiki's working thesis (Building Across Mediums), another kind of building. Selecting material, respecting its properties, applying heat and time, judging completion — the verbs are familiar. The only meaningful difference is that the build is consumed and the next one starts tomorrow.

What Cooking Teaches the Builder

• Mise en place. Measure, prep, arrange — before you start. Construction calls this "staging." Software calls it "setup."
• Heat is a material. Respect it. It doesn't care about your schedule.
• Taste as you go. You can't fix seasoning at the end. You cannot fix UI polish at the end either.
• Rest the meat. Some things need time after "done" before they're done. Code included.
• Your knife will only be as good as the time you spend sharpening it.
• Read the recipe twice. Or, in builder terms: read the spec before you cut.

Preferred Output

Burbridge's preferred cooking trends toward single-pan weeknight dinners, weekend braises, and the occasional loaf of bread. Baked goods are respected but rare; they require a precision Burbridge reserves for finish carpentry.

"Every recipe is a build plan. You can follow it exactly the first time or the last time, never both." — Burbridge