before shaking it.
Or stirring something before tasting it.
Or checking the oven twice because you don’t trust yourself.
You don’t necessarily remember learning these things.
You just remember doing them.
Someone showed you once.
You copied them.
Then you grew up and did the same thing automatically.
Eventually, the reason disappears.
The habit stays.
THIS IS HOW SO MANY KITCHEN RULES GET CREATED
Someone learns a trick because something went wrong.
Maybe someone’s potato actually exploded in the microwave.
Maybe it made a huge mess.
Maybe their mother told
