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Cocktail Party Physics: taster’s choice

With all due respect to Tom, cooking, done properly, is not about blindly following recipes: it involves a lot of prediction and testing by experiment to get a dish just right. The recipes just give you the basic framework.

I think the key phrase here is “done properly,” which I suspect applies to a minority of cooking. As Jennifer had noted

[W]hat he’s really objecting to is not cooking per se, but the blind following of a recipe/instructions, which isn’t any more scientific than rote memorization of scientific facts.

I have absolutely no problem with saying that there can be a whole lot of science in cooking, if you approach it that way. So go read the whole thing, it’s good (as usual), and has the Swedish chef.

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