SC - Cookery-Art or Science

[Bonne]

"Michael F. Gunter" wrote:
>
> I like the thought of cooking as an art and baking as a science. Basically
> my defination between the two is that a science must be able to be reproduced
> almost exactly by following specific perameters. I feel that a lot of baking
> is like this. But an art is something that is based on objective criteria.
> A science, metallurgy fer instance, will create a product that two people
> can look at and agree upon the outcome. "Yeah, that's a knife blade." 

But do they agree that it is a *good* knife blade?

>Whereas
> with an art, two people can either like or dislike the result. "Boy I love
> this meatloaf." "Well I don't think it tastes right."

But do they agree that it is meatloaf?


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