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Regarding cooking: You will never go much beyond a set of frustrating, memorized axioms unless you understand food science and chemistry. I feel as though it wo
by rbranson 17y ago
Regarding cooking: You will never go much beyond a set of frustrating, memorized axioms unless you understand food science and chemistry. I feel as though it works the same way with programming.
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- evgen 17y agoYou don't need to know the details of a Maillard reaction to know how to saute. This is the difference between a visceral pursuit like cooking and an intellectual one like programming. Most of the people cooking great meals at well-respected restaurants have never read McGee (and probably don't read English very well at all) and would have no problem cooking a better meal than any recent CIA grad.
- dagw 17y agoI disagree. You need to know how food behaves, not why. You need to know how an onion will taste after different processes, not what molecular changes it's gone through. Equally being able to explain the maillard reaction or knowing what Myoglobin is won't help you cook a decent meal.