[dagw]

Cooking is done by listening, smelling, tasting and looking, not reading a set of instuctions.

When making dinner for your family, sure. When needing to turn out 1000s of identical cookies day after day and you don't even know who will actually be making the cookies next week, not so much.

[tincholio]

Also, baking, in general, requires a lot more discipline than cooking (esp. to the quantities of ingredients, substitutions, etc.)