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How long to steam buns (bao)

Two things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 14:00

Fresh or frozen?

How big?

How to tell without a timer

Lid off the moment the timer ends — condensation makes the tops soggy.

How it goes

  1. Each on its own paper square, well spaced. They expand.
Every combination, as a table
Fresh or frozen?How big?Time
Fresh / proved Small / bite-sized 7:00
Fresh / proved Standard 10:00
Fresh / proved Large 13:00
Frozen Small / bite-sized 9:45
Frozen Standard 14:00
Frozen Large 18:15

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

Cooked the same way

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