Grandma’s recipe lives in her hands, not on paper. Stand in the kitchen and write it down while she’s still annoyed you’re there.

Some knowledge lives in hands and never makes it onto paper. She cannot tell you the amount because there is no amount, only a feel for when the dough has had enough, learned across forty years and never once measured. That kind of skill does not transfer by asking. It transfers by standing in the room while it happens, getting in the way, and writing down what you see her do instead of what she says.

Pick one person and one thing they can do that you cannot. Ask to watch rather than to be told. Take notes on your phone while they complain about you being underfoot.