re: My Biggest Beefs With Breaking Bad

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How do you explain someone being able to bake something from a recipe and it not being quite as good as say their mom or the head baker at a bakery?

As said by other posters, 96% was pretty damn good and hardly different from 99%.

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Thank you for this point. I think this will allow me to clarify my disagreement.

My grandmother's cheeseball was legendary. You've never tasted anything so delectable in your entire life. There was a written recipe for it, but she didn't use it. She just made it. And after she passed a while back, my mom would make one according the written recipe my grandmother hadn't looked at it in 30 year. Good, but not on the same level.

But if my grandmother had made it exactly according to the recipe, then my mom's would taste exactly the same. And then if I followed that recipe I could make one and it would be exactly the same.

Hell, I can't cook a think, but you should taste the punkin pie I make.....according to my mom's recipe. Tastes just like hers (quite delicious).

And so the question then becomes: is cooking meth more like making my grandmother's cheeseball, or more like making my mom's punkin pie. I submit that it's like the pumpkin pie. Walt had a painstakingly precise set of steps to follow. There was no spitballing. There was no playing it by ear. It was recipe, followed to the letter.