https://www.absurdlyoptimized.com/recipes/pancakes/
"I have been making pancakes for twenty-five years. It was the first food I
ever learned to cook, starting with Dorie Greenspan’s recipe from
Pancakes:
From Morning to Midnight. I made her recipe dutifully for close to twenty
years until someone mentioned Kenji López-Alt’s buttermilk pancakes, and I
switched to making those dutifully instead.
But I started to wonder whether I had actually found the optimal pancake, or
just the most recently recommended one. And every time I made Kenji’s recipe I
was annoyed at two things: having to run out for buttermilk (or do mental
stoichiometry to substitute yogurt while in a pre-caffeinated state), and the
use of imprecise cup measurements rather than weights. I was also curious about
competing recipes that used sour cream, Greek yogurt, cottage cheese. Each one
claimed to be the best. None of them showed their work.
So I did what any reasonable person would do. I derived the pancake from first
principles.
Every recipe in every cookbook is a frozen snapshot of one point in this
parameter space. This calculator lets you explore the space freely. Change what
you have, change what you want, and the stoichiometry adapts."
Via Violet Blue’s
Threat Model - Cybersecurity: July 21, 2026
https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts/cybersecurity-21-164429612
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
