[thro2309]

> The friend has assumed that your goal is to "efficiently" reach the goal of a delicious pie, or perhaps even to create a new kind of pie. But that's not the goal at all!

> Baking a pie is a creative act. It's personal, it's inherently delightful, it's an act of caring for others. It's also a craft that one can improve at over time. Just buying the "best" pie would defeat the point.

Not sure author realises the irony here. Creating "the pie" is not art. It is not even craft. It is baking ingredients, and people did that bazilions times before.

[episteme]

If baking a pie isn't a craft then I don't know what is. Do you believe there is no skill involved with baking a pie?

[kbelder]

My brother sat with my mother one day, meticulously recording every detail he could while she made a pie crust, filled it, and baked it. All the quantities, how they were combined, temperatures, durations, etc.

He still cannot replicate her pies.

[quesera]

GP is pointlessly provocative, although an argument might be made that industrial pie production is neither art nor craft.

Your mom's case is different and much more interesting. She must make truly transcendent pies.

My half-dozen forays into making "from scratch" pie crust and filling have been surprisingly successful, but I might be missing something. I followed recipes from either Mark Bittman or America's Test Kitchen.

[aapoalas]

You seem to have misread "act" as "art."

[blurri]

Remind me to never try your pie.

[Flop7331]

You have a weirdly narrow view of what constitutes art or craft.