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A twitter post by "cole ashe" with NileBlue's "Making the World's Purest Cookie" video on the bottom saying "everything about this video is great. he makes a cookie using like NIST reference standard flour and chocolate and molecular biology grade sucrose and it just ends up tasting like nothing. he'd also never made cookies before this so it's like watching a space alien learn to bake"
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[–] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

A chemistry teacher I had like a decade ago used to insist that being good at chemistry has a great correlation with being good at baking, because both are about following recipes. I'd say that video disproves that claim.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago
    1. Maybe good at actual synthesis but there's loads about chemistry that isn't solutions in beakers

    2. Assuming your teacher is right humans are fuzzy data points and an anecdotal counter-example does not disprove the trend.

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