I hate recipes. I hate trying to follow. When you don’t have a lot of space 1 (or a lot of extraneous cookware), following a ‘mise en place‘ method can be a real hassle. I find myself looking back and forth from ingredient list to directions. There has to be a better way.

What if we treated it a bit more like a map?
Or maybe even a bit more like programming?

I mean, we’re dealing with containers, objects, variables, and instructions.

There’s something to this. Let’s explore.