eli5, how do contestants on baking shows know the exact measurements for recipes?

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Frequently on different baking shows bakers will be surprised with the challenge they have to create. Now baking isn’t like cooking where you can eyeball measurements, and i doubt they have every single recipe they know completely memorized, so how is it they know measurements for things like baking powder?

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Also some of that stuff is fake. Things like mystery ingredient challenges on Master Chef or whatever aren’t actually a “mystery” to the contestants. They already know what the ingredient is, so they have SOME semblance of an idea of what to do.

It may be possible, though probably less likely with a surprise end goal than a surprise ingredient, that they also already know what they will have to bake. I can’t say for sure though, I’m not familiar with those kind of shows.

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