But there's stuff going on here that's actually more interesting than the culture wars. See this thing on southern biscuits for eg. or Jiro dreams of Sushi. What is new here is not the obsessive nerding out, but doing so quantitatively.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/11/better-biscuits-south-thanksgiving/576526/?fbclid=IwAR3eipMrnyldUcfq38Okkoxqll5ErghSbsCR9D5H_MeM4CJ1CgvAonZqyUw …
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Replying to @vgr @sonyaellenmann
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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Replying to @vgr @sonyaellenmann
Wanking us the fun part though so of course that's what the hobbyist focuses on
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