Yes, I would say baking is the most complicated form of cooking to understand because it is chemically the most complex.
I think the general point of the OP is you cannot easily violate the ritual (ad lib with the recipe in baking). I suspect most people don’t grasp the difference between baking and other cooking (which is also rather chemical reaction driven). I would suggest the different is widths of the error bands. Baking has really narrow bands, other cooking has relatively wide ones.
I think the post gets to a much deeper question. Just when should someone be a ritual follower and when is that not so important. I think part of that answer related to the error band concept. It also related to knowledge of the gears.
The idea of complex interactions + small error bands leading to ritualisation neatly explains why medicine is so ritualised despite its practitioners being among the most educated professionals.
Yes, I would say baking is the most complicated form of cooking to understand because it is chemically the most complex.
I think the general point of the OP is you cannot easily violate the ritual (ad lib with the recipe in baking). I suspect most people don’t grasp the difference between baking and other cooking (which is also rather chemical reaction driven). I would suggest the different is widths of the error bands. Baking has really narrow bands, other cooking has relatively wide ones.
I think the post gets to a much deeper question. Just when should someone be a ritual follower and when is that not so important. I think part of that answer related to the error band concept. It also related to knowledge of the gears.
The idea of complex interactions + small error bands leading to ritualisation neatly explains why medicine is so ritualised despite its practitioners being among the most educated professionals.