Oh, I love them both don't get me wrong but I am more than happy to point out how fucking ridiculous they are. Because they are fucking ridiculous, but a lot of people who follow them feel pressured to try to do it exactly their way and I'm like, shhhh, no, you're fine, do it the sane way. They are privileged to have the time to do a lot of things from scratch AND are both the type of cooks who will try to iteratively figure out how to make the best possible puff pastry for a given application, and then advocate for making your own puff pastry all the time because really it's worth it for the incremental improvement and satisfaction of know YOU made it.
Over here in the real world we're buying the fucking stuff in the freezer, are you kidding me. It WILL be better than anything that we mere fucking mortal non-professional bakers could make at home 95% of the time, and literally anything else would be a better use of that time. Sleeping, stupid clicky games, L I T E R A L L Y ANYTHING.
(Example pulled out of my ass, I don't actually know their specific opinions on puff pastry and for all I know they both might be acquainted with sanity on that one; it was just an easy example of the mode of thought.)
And, I mean, I've considered milling flour for myself at some points but I'm also self-aware enough to know that the fact that I get a kick out of doing some things the hard and tedious way lends no moral and little nutritional value to my food, and I'm not telling other people to do that, oh my god.
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Date: 2019-10-15 05:43 pm (UTC)Over here in the real world we're buying the fucking stuff in the freezer, are you kidding me. It WILL be better than anything that we mere fucking mortal non-professional bakers could make at home 95% of the time, and literally anything else would be a better use of that time. Sleeping, stupid clicky games, L I T E R A L L Y ANYTHING.
(Example pulled out of my ass, I don't actually know their specific opinions on puff pastry and for all I know they both might be acquainted with sanity on that one; it was just an easy example of the mode of thought.)
And, I mean, I've considered milling flour for myself at some points but I'm also self-aware enough to know that the fact that I get a kick out of doing some things the hard and tedious way lends no moral and little nutritional value to my food, and I'm not telling other people to do that, oh my god.