Before the existence of the recipe, skilled practitioners had their own folklore, built from decades or centuries of trial and error and experience. Now, anybod

Before the existence of the recipe, skilled practitioners had their own folklore, built from decades or centuries of trial and error and experience. Now, anybody can simply copy a recipe and inherit that experience, no matter how skilled. It takes skill and/or time and effort to discover a recipe in a field like baking, where the desired chemical reactions are fragile and easy to disrupt. The message of the post is: don't try and discover recipes in difficult fields like baking, unless you know what you're doing.