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> Do you think buying a cheeseburger makes you a chef? No, because someone else was the chef in that case. But if I bought a conveyer belt machine that made ch
by Wowfunhappy 4y ago
> Do you think buying a cheeseburger makes you a chef?
No, because someone else was the chef in that case. But if I bought a conveyer belt machine that made cheeseburgers automatically at the press of a button, and I used that machine to cook dinner—maybe!
If we lived in a world where machines like that were common, the meaning of "cooking" would change...
- anigbrowl 4y agoI don't think so. I used to cook for a living and still make meals regularly at home, I'm pretty good at it. But sometimes I just want cup noodles, and when I make them I don't consider it cooking. Maybe a better example is popcorn. I can make it in a microwave, or I can make it in a pot on the stove from scratch. It takes about the same amount of time, and the quality is about the same. But doing it by hand involves many more small decisions, like the amount of oil, corn kernels, heat, cook time, knowing when to stop, what flavor ingredients to add and how much etc. Now I can do it on autopilot and never have a single burned or unpopped kernel, but it took maybe 100 less-than-perfect efforts to get to that.
- throwaway675309 4y agoFalse. A craft requires deliberate effort and practice otherwise to proudly claim the "act of creation" (I cooked X, I drew Y, I wrote Z) has no meaning.