Excellent, excellent advice!
I can't tell you the number of extra hours I have added to my overall mixing time, because I forgot to make a notation about a tweak I tried to a recipe, and then had to go back and repeat the whole process over. Or, the "nirvana" recipe that slipped through my fingers, because I was "just fooling around" with some flavors and didn't bother to write anything down. Not to mention the failures I repeated due to the absence of notes (those really hurt!).
It doesn't matter how you do it. Some use note pads or binders, some use spreadsheets or word processors, and still others add their notes directly to their recipe calculators. Find what works best for you, and use it every time. For everything! Remember the details: what you did, why you did it, how long you did it for (this is starting to sound bad
; like a Mel Brooks dialog)? And don't forget to add a note or two on results: did it work, what would you try differently next time? You can save yourself a lot of heartache, and time with good consistent notes. You never know when you are going to discover the answer to world peace!
Can you tell I learned the hard way!?
