5.02
Part 05 · Using it · Lanes
Cooking Lanes, and who decides them
Chef Cooper proposes how the work splits. Nothing runs until you have confirmed it.
Where this is in iWhisk
Open a recipe, then Cook with Cooper
Most recipes are written as one list, top to bottom, as though you do one thing then the next. Real cooking is not shaped like that. The oven is heating while the bacon renders, and the sauce reduces while the vegetables soften.
A lane is one of the separate activities a dish needs, each keeping its own clock, all of which have to come together to serve it. How many there are is decided by the dish rather than by any fixed number. Beef Bourguignon comes back as five: Main, Base, Vegetables, Bring it together and Sauce. Another recipe might need three, or eight.
Lanes are part of Cook with Cooper, which comes with Plus. Recipes cooked without them lose none of their steps and none of their detail, so this is a way of seeing the work rather than a way of unlocking it.
5.02.1
What Cooper proposes
Ask Cooper to build a plan and it works out the components, which steps depend on which, an estimate of the active work each step needs, the timers, and the point where everything merges into one dish.
That is a proposal, not an instruction. It arrives marked review required and does not run until you say so. See 5.03.
5.02.2
Why the number of lanes matters beyond this screen
How many lanes a recipe needs, and how tightly their timings depend on each other, is most of what makes a recipe difficult. That is the same measure your Journey uses to decide what a cook is worth. See 6.02.