>You’re missing that this is a lot of work, and far from everybody is even remotely interested in doing that
It's not. It's a couple of dozen disappointments in your teens and then you know how to cook everything you want for the rest of your life.
>Most people would rather be doing useful
I actually crunched the numbers on this once, and worked out that having the skills to cook and adapt to whatever ingredients are cheap/in season is worth somewhere in the order of $250,000 over the lifetime of an adult.
>to discover how much salt “to taste” means
"to taste" is however damn much you want it to be. That's the point I'm trying to make. It isn't that cooking needs to be everybody's hobby; it's that:
- It doesn't need to be precise
- The obsession people have with precision makes things harder and more stressful; not easier.
