I have in the oven right now a "bread" to which I accidentally doubled the amount of butter in the batter. I'm not certain what will come of it, but hell, it's already in the oven.

Never understood this. I dick around while baking all the time. I pretty much never follow the recipe, and just throw whatever in in whatever amount I feel like. Sometimes things get weird, but usually it turns out alright with just a bit of extra flour or water to get the consistency right.

Cooking on the other hand... As far as I can tell, meat goes from raw to tough as nails in about 3 seconds.

Cooking is an art, baking is a science

Meanwhile cooking has always given me pure anxiety

Baking bread and baking pastry are two entirely different fields. Bread don't give a fuck (outside of sourdough), pastry will shank a bitch if its one degree too warm

Cooking is the one you can fuck up a bit and still save things

Baking? You won't necessarily get to know that you've fucked up until you're literally serving it to people

Cooking is the fun art you can enter a flow state with. Baking is the nerdy anxiety catalysing science that will make you doubt your every move.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae gaines conciousness, becomes multicellular organism and starts consuming you mid baking.

That’s how I feel about walking my dog. If he knows that I want him to hurry up and pee/poo he’ll take his sweet ass time. If I’m not in a rush he goes quickly and wants to go inside.

high hydration dough is sooo emotionally clingy, too.

Okay, Shaggy.

well if you think regular dough is fearful, try working with buckwheat dough. Gets into your nightmares when you fall sleep.

Baking is about patience, knowing when to stop proofing, how vigorously to stir etc. Its not rocket science (source: am professional baker and not a scientist)