Sure, nothing against the practice, food photographers do what is needed to do to obtain a good result, it was only to explain why often times what you actually

Sure, nothing against the practice, food photographers do what is needed to do to obtain a good result, it was only to explain why often times what you actually cook looks quite different from the photos, a part is to be attributed to (less) capabilities of the cook, but a part comes from the sheer fact that the photo does not represent the actual output of the recipe.