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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.

It's not just a simple recipe, guy. How are you not getting this? And why is it a fricking hang up? Walt, like every cook who really understands the way things react to each other and understands why they do things a certain way, could make adjustments where adjustments needed to be made. In theory, recipes are designed to get you the same product every time, but in practice, even with a detailed, thorough recipe, there are changes, small differences that occur. Walt can account for these because he's a chemist. Jesse cannot because he's not.

This is very fricking simple and I feel like now you're just trying to argue for the sake of argument rather than actually trying to change anyone's mind.

All of your "beefs" with the show are so insignificant as to be borderline trollish. King George's issue with Jr's reaction (or lack thereof), Freauxzen's suggestion of an issue with Marie's rather pointless kleptomania storyline, those are legitimate. Walter being a better "cook" than Jesse is not. It was explained numerous times in the show and has been thoroughly beaten to death by the posters in this thread.

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Posted by JuiceTerry

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Posted on 7/7/15 at 4:15 pm to LoveThatMoney

Walt taught Jesse everything Jesse knew about the cook. He didn't teach him everything Walt knew.

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Posted by SystemsGo

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Posted on 7/7/15 at 8:02 pm to LoveThatMoney

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It's not just a simple recipe, guy. How are you not getting this? And why is it a fricking hang up? Walt, like every cook who really understands the way things react to each other and understands why they do things a certain way, could make adjustments where adjustments needed to be made. In theory, recipes are designed to get you the same product every time, but in practice, even with a detailed, thorough recipe, there are changes, small differences that occur. Walt can account for these because he's a chemist. Jesse cannot because he's not.

This is very fricking simple and I feel like now you're just trying to argue for the sake of argument rather than actually trying to change anyone's mind.

I'm certainly not arguing for the sake of arguing. I'm arguing because there's nothing in the series to suggest the bolded above was ever necessary. There was no indication that there was any aspect of that process that required quick-thinking professional judgment. And I've never cooked meth myself so the depiction of the process over the 60+ episodes is what I'm going off of.

We obviously just disagree on this point. It happens.

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All of your "beefs" with the show are so insignificant as to be borderline trollish. King George's issue with Jr's reaction (or lack thereof), Freauxzen's suggestion of an issue with Marie's rather pointless kleptomania storyline, those are legitimate. Walter being a better "cook" than Jesse is not. It was explained numerous times in the show and has been thoroughly beaten to death by the posters in this thread.

Now you sound like the guy from the first page who said I was being "inflammatory". In this context, I have no idea what that means. I just got done watching this series and so I posted a few things I was thinking about as it was going on. How that could be considered 'trolling' is beyond me.

This post was edited on 7/7/15 at 8:04 pm

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