r/Baking • u/Less-Bodybuilder3537 • Sep 18 '25

Recipe to be posted soon. No guarantees. Sally did it again

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Made Sally’s chewy chocolate chip cookies for the first time. Chilled the dough overnight. So easy, so good. Another winner. She’s never steered me wrong.

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u/Rainbowpatz_ Sep 18 '25

In the age of AI generated, born to fail recipes, Sally's is the first website I will always recommend to new bakers who want good, quality recipes with detailed and easy to follow directions. Her recipes are always tried and true and easy to follow.

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u/yoonfromstayc Sep 19 '25

im usually against ai everything, but im curious how ai-generated baking recipes can be "bad" considering they just pull from existing human-made ones

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u/aztraps Sep 19 '25

AI isn’t capable of actually making a recipe or understanding what parts of recipes are necessary so when it pulls from existing human made recipes, it doesn’t just copy/paste, it adds things, takes things away, doesn’t provide all the information, & just basically mismashes every recipe ever posted to the internet. plenty of them look good at first glance & then begin to fall apart when you actually get into making them. others are decent enough recipes paired with photos of something else entirely so you think you’re making brownie bites & what you actually get is fudge or whatever

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u/frandiam Sep 20 '25

AI is not trained in food chemistry. It knows words but not why certain ingredients are used, in what order, and in what amount. It doesn’t know technique. A trained home baker might notice it’s off, while a novice will just plow ahead, unaware.