There is a lot of decent industrially-produced baguette. Here's an example showing an automated line for forming baguettes from dough: https://youtu.be/qVB5EOAJ

There is a lot of decent industrially-produced baguette. Here's an example showing an automated line for forming baguettes from dough: https://youtu.be/qVB5EOAJT1w https://youtu.be/qVB5EOAJT1w Btw I don't know if the comparison with chess is right. Maybe I would think of the cooking arts as any other art, like painting or sculpture - nobody is the "best" at art. Once a certain point is passed in terms of mastery of the technique, at the high end, the kinds of things that set apart different artists tend to be very subjective, and subject to changing tastes. Not to say machines can't do decent art, but perhaps it's a game where it is harder to define the rules...