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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They have a great understanding of ratios. Dough, for example, is a very simple recipe: flour, water, sugar, salt, oil, and something like yeast or baking soda. They know what having too much/too little of something does to the process.

They have a general idea of how much it takes to make a certain amount already, so either they are making an educated guess or they’ve made the dish a few times.

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