Why does everyone tell new cooks to just 'follow the recipe' when my worst fails came from doing exactly that

Sam Walker · 2026-10-02T23:45:03.231567+00:00

A guy at a potluck in Dayton last weekend told me he ruined a $40 pork roast by trusting the recipe's 325 for 3 hours without ever checking it, and the room just nodded like that was normal. If you have ever blindly trusted a printed time and temp and paid for it, what was the dish?

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