the thing that annihilates me about that recipe is just how little each of it actually matters - the curse of recipes is that they never focus on the things that are good to know when you want to make something. it's the same way that math education is conducted in grade school - there's no understanding of why, just "do this and this just like i'm doing" there's this fucked up sense where it's not about teaching at a certain point recipes are amazing as general guides for something you've never cooked before, but only as that, and after you make something once you should use your own experience and experimentation to make your own recipe based on what you like, for your personal use what in gods name is this monstrosity - why "european style butter"? why "fleur de sel"? what if i use some offbrand soft cheese, will that ruin the whole thing every step sounds like it was written by an insane person this is a pizza