I'm a science kind of guy. Is cooking a science or an art?

its womans work

It's a craft

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>>8548327
I love women desu

>>8548335
i like certain non traditional variety of a women. you could say i have a.. paricular taste

It's both OP. Understanding of the science allows you to cook properly, whereas of the art allows you to display properly.

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>>8548356
That was quotably quoted, my friend. Quotably quoted.

>>8548325
You can use science for application. And your basis for baking will be a little higher than baseline. Well if you are as good at science as you say. But things like heat of vaporization, caramelization at a specific temperature, maillard reactions all make sense with a certain kind of thought

>>8548356
Came here to say this, and if I may add, you need to actually make use of both.
Mixing random contrasting ingredients and calling it art is stupid
Thinking that cooking is about pure nutrition is a sign of an empty soul

>>8548350
traps are gay

>>8548475
>came here to say this xD
>>>/reddit/

>>8548335
jerk of instructions are great but they should branch out and make other type of videos like rape simulations or incest simulations

>>8548475
Just because it's labelled science may not refer to the nutrition side of it.

The way each flavour is made up can be broken down to the exact chemicals they are made up of and recreated similarly and improved using computer software.

If you are a master at Physics you are a master chef also. Simple

>>8548325
Bit of both. Sometimes more of on than the other. Generally I treat it more like art/lean towards making things artfully as my job requires a more analytic kind of problem solving.

It's somewehere between science, art and a craft, although I'm not too fond of calling it an art.
Not everything nice is a form of art and it doesn't have to be. Art is not a form to measure a thing's quality and it shouldn't be treated as such.

>>8548325
art can be science and vice versa, this discipline happens to be one of those that are both

>>8548325
A little bit of both :^)

>>8548325
It's a craft, so you can approach it either way.

>>8548325
With unlimited knowledge it would be a science. Right now mixed i guess

>>8548802
I've been looking at this post for a while and I still can't process the kind of person that would type this out.

>>8548325
Baking is a science
Cooking is an art

>>8548325
Both. The science part allows you to achieve the results you want from a recipe or an idea, and the art part allows you to create new dishes and plate them in an appealing way. Being a great cook requires both.

>>8548802
>incest simulations
Over half of JOI videos are incest. Rape isn't really my cup of tea unless its female on male with forced impregnation but its not like "forced" videos are in short supply either.

Cooking is a science.

If it were an art, 20-somethings would be into it this day and age, and it would all be about raw eggs on top of kale and how that's a metaphor for the plight of middle eastern women.

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>>8549257
This is ridiculous but also true.

To be a little autistic about definitions, the distinction should be between a craft and (chemical) engineering. And unless you're one of the small number of people doing molecular gastronomy, it's a craft.

>>8549236
>a professional porn actress reading from a script in front of a camera = incest
Ok

>>8549289
Of course they arn't real you doughnut! the post said simulations.

>Simulation: Imitation of a situation or process.
If you want the real thing ring your mum or your sister.

For pure flavour, its a science. For presentation, its an art.

And since flavour > presentation, its scientific with an artistic outer shell.

>le science
You don't use the scientific method when you cook. Even if it's science, you're doing it wrong so your question is moot, you reddit fuck.

>>8549309
You do though? You make a hypothesis on what could make something taste better, then you start the steps to add ingredient, after that you do some testing with food to see if it improves or changes the taste, and then you can conclude whether or not you want to add it in the future.

Personally I've started adding anchovies to everything.

>>8548325
Bearing in mind that the way you're presenting the distinction suggests you don't really understand what either art or science are beyond us STEM majors amirite bullshit it's an art (in the sense that it's a craft or skill not that it's capital "A" Art) insomuch as the end goal is to make something to eat and not to increase knowledge but you can take a scientific approach to improving various aspects of cooking

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>>8549270
*tips*

>>8548325
>what is science
>what is art
it's neither, and it's a lot closer to science

>>8548325
Baking is science, savory cooking is art.

>>8548803
>Physics
>physics in cooking
You 100% mean chemistry.

>>8548325
Cooking is art.

Baking is chemistry.