When you sell a cookbook, the unspoken promise is that when people follow the recipes, they can trust that they'll get good results.
Literally the first thing I made in this cookbook, the lentils came out extremely watery. I've never eaten dal makhani before, so I thought "huh, doesn't look that good, but I guess it's supposed to be like that" and served it. It wasn't good.
So I googled it and found that, oh, that's a known error, the recipe includes almost twice as much water as it's supposed to. More googling found more known errors, sometimes with too much water, sometimes not enough.
Now I'm finding it impossible to trust any of the recipes. I don't want to waste expensive ingredients or give people bad food.
Errors that glaring in a cookbook, of all places, are really astonishing. It makes me doubt the author even cooked them following her own recipes (what seems like a crucial proofreading step for any cookbook).
It makes the book seem more like a quick ploy to make money off the instant pot trend. Perhaps the recipes were adapted from non-instant-pot recipes using a formula and not tested?
And it astonishes me that this book continues to be sold without a warning of the known errors within.
There isn't even a published list of errors online!
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