[teddyh]

> It's not. It's a couple of dozen disappointments in your teens and then you know how to cook everything you want for the rest of your life.

But not everybody wants to do that. Why should everybody be forced to get good at cooking? It’s like those “Oh, everybody should learn to play a musical instrument” people. No we should not.

> I actually crunched the numbers on this once

You’re still arguing that everybody should be forced to learn to cook.

> "to taste" is however damn much you want it to be.

But if I don’t know what a typical, reasonable value is, I’m forced to guess, probably ruining the food, and now I have no food today. Repeat for multiple days. Why do you want to force people to do that? It actually feels like gatekeeping, with using weird in-group terms and assuming knowledge which can’t even be taught and must be learned personally over a long period of time.