Wait, you add flour and eggs to your cake water?

and yet, if that same chef is an award winning baker with decades of experience producing not only elite cakes, but also the machinery to bake elite cakes, who's more likely to be correct? the amateur? nah.

Yes, because the professional is saying something wrong and the amateur is saying something right.

If there is some uncertainty in the answer, maybe you have a point. But people can just be wrong.

and yet it's the amateur claiming there is no uncertainty. no offence but i don't see why your opinion would hold any water here.

I'm sure award-winning bakers produce a somewhat steady output of elite cakes, not only 2 cakes that each took a team to make, and one machine that's still just a prototype. Doesn't feel like an apt comparison here.

that's an absurd take. Rockstar has only produced a handful of elite cakes with a massive team, are they not an elite game studio? volume isn't in question here. 3 elite cakes produced by a tiny studio is elite. braid, the witness, and ootss is an elite catalog of indie games. don't let your hate of the man blind you.

I don't know the man, let alone hate him. But after reading the comments here and looking up his career, it certainly sounds like the teams he was part of built elite things, while he speaks as though he single-handledly built elite things - there's quite some difference there.

Probably bad example. Producing machinery to bake elite cakes would be getting as deep into artisanal crafting as you can get.

Professional cooking is not any less art (as opposed to a quality process) than amateur. I'd instead listen to the chemical process engineers in food space, who - guess what - may just say the cakes shouldn't cost anywhere near to $50 :).

It's hard to argue with analogies, but I'll give you mine.

It is more like the guy who can paint very good landscapes would start criticising every oscar category from producing to sound design, telling that they have 0 idea what they are doing, and he would do it better. "Why the credits of Transformers are 5 minutes long with hundreds of people, you don't need more than 50 people to make such movie"... This is how Blow often sounds to me.

But they basically are, and in this household we bake a lot. It's not really on topic, but why TH should a cake cost 50 bucks? In an industrial environment they should take maybe 10 minutes of manual labor, if that much.