>Cooking is art, baking is science. Not to single you out for an oft repeated phrase, but I've never like this set of comparisons. Baking surely requires you

>Cooking is art, baking is science. Not to single you out for an oft repeated phrase, but I've never like this set of comparisons. Baking surely requires you to precisely follow recipes in a way cooking usually doesn't, but merely following instructions precisely isn't science. Really, there is an art of and a science of both cooking and baking. Understanding some of the science of baking is actually what enables one to productively modify and create recipes.