What is the point in the order you put ingredients in for cooking, or why use other clean measuring cups if they all go to the same thing?

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i dont even know

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Answer 1

Cooking isn’t coloring. Some things need time to react with each other. Some things become different things when mixed together, and then react differently when later things arrive.

Much of complicated cooking instructions involve getting air to the right places at the right times as well as just plain mixing (fluff, whip…)

As for the measuring implements… using clean ones is more about keeping the portion of an ingredient you are NOT using clean for later use. Stick a wet measuring cup into your flour, and that bag is going to get stinky fast. Use a cup for vegetable oil and then milk, but have to pour back some milk because you measured too much… cereal tomorrow will not bring joy to your mouth.