Goal and options: What are the ingredients for a chicken confit?
output answer: 6 to 8 skin on, bone-in chicken thighs, 2 tablespoons kosher salt, 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, 3 or 4 fresh thyme sprigs, 2 bay leaves, 3 or 4 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed with a knife, 1/2 yellow onion, thinly sliced, 2 cups extra-virgin olive oil (or enough to cover chicken) and, 2 cups canola oil (or enough to cover the chicken).

Goal and options: chopsticks
output answer: give rope more length

Goal and options: To make a color of oil paint lighter,
output answer:
squeeze equal amounts of the original color and white onto a palette, and mix them with a palette knife blade, adding more of either color to adjust the shade.