My mom's banana bread recipe card has this tiny note in the corner that says "beat 50 strokes" and I did that by hand with a wooden spoon for years before my sister told me mom only wrote that down as a joke for my dad who always overmixed stuff. So yeah, wasted effort runs in the family I guess. What gets me about your story is the 3 years part, because nobody ever corrected you and the biscuits still came out fine, right? That makes me wonder if sifting even does anything at all or if it was just one of those old kitchen rules people passed down with no real reason behind it. Did your grandma actually say it changes the texture, or did she just look at you like you were nuts for standing there with a sifter? I keep going back and forth on whether these extra steps are worth keeping or if we should all just toss the sifter in the trash.

A toner cartridge from 2019 sitting in a drawer for six years somehow beats a press? I have doubts. Old toner usually clumps or dries out, and half the time it prints gray and streaky no matter how much you shake it. Also black density on a laser isn't the same beast as offset, one is toner fused on top and the other is ink soaked in, so a close match doesn't mean much. Not saying the guy is lying, just that a single lucky cartridge is not exactly a lab test.