Baked, and Not in a Fun Way

So, Megan McArdle has a post up on how super easy it is now to cook because of Gadgets! and Measuring Cups! While 1900 grannies had it hard because of the opposite. My Grannie, born at the on the boat circa 1900, made the world's greatest chocolate chip cookies. She almost never measured anything. You know why? Because she had made 10bazillion batches. I make a really nice tart, not that kind, and I don't really measure anything anymore. If you do something often enough with the same set of tools you know what works and what doesn't. It's pragmatical.