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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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Traditionalism perpetuates gramdma’s heirloom bread at all costs. Less Wrongianism optimizes in the noise zone: marginal improvements squeezed out at great marginal cost. AlphaGoOven has a chance of actually wrangling Bread 2.0 The rest of us have moved on to avocado toast