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Traditional nerding out gives you a sort of reactionary superstition like biscuit woman shushing anyone who dares to float an analytical thought re: Perfect Biscuit. It must be made her grandma's way. Otoh, the BroDough movement ends in Juicero for bread.
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Basically, bro-ing a craft gives you an authoritarian high-modernist version of it (Myhrvold's approach is even called modernist cuisine after all). The antithesis is metis-ing a craft where no superstition is too silly to sacralize. Yin and yang of nerding out.
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What both lack is a sense of perspective on how much a particular topic is worth nerding out over at all. Both street vendors and McDonald's scale chains have the opposite bias: aggressively optimize only that which makes a difference to the bottomline. All else is wankery.
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