Ship of Fools? « Christopher Kimball Blog
I agree that a wiki recipe site is not great. But what about the fact that the broccoli casserole might be perfect in the test kitchen, but won’t translate as *perfect* to my kitchen, because I have a different stove, or a fridge drawer that stores my cheese at a slightly lower temperature, or whatever?
And does he really believe that there is a “right” and “wrong” way in cooking? This statement seems so ridiculous I don’t even know where to begin addressing it. What about creativity (if everyone followed the “right” way to cook, we’d still all be eating the same 10 things, right?), and different taste buds (supertasters!), and people who can’t eat gluten so have to make their chocolate chip cookies with rice flour, and so on and so forth?
(Here’s Kimball’s original op-ed, and here’s the Amateur Gourmet’s great response to it.)
