• kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    They just haven’t practiced it. If you’re a good cook, you absolutely have capacity to be a good baker, because they’re only semantically different things. If we called it cooking a cake, no one would draw this distinction, and some other languages/cultures don’t.

    If you can prepare, mix, and properly cook ingredients then you can prepare, mix, and properly bake ingredients.

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      23 hours ago

      I mean etymologically… It’s called a cake and not a bake for a reason.
      Edit: also cookie not bakie, biscuit not bisboulangé … actually french uses cuire for cooking and baking