[ben_w]

> Cooking is as stochastic as it gets, and we handle it fine. It could be better

My attempts at making bread have been too stochastic, in that it hardly ever produces nice results.

But yes. Eyeballing how much dried herbs to put in my dishes because I like what 2-isopropyl-5-methylphenol does for them. Usually it works, sometimes it's just a bit too Italian.

[TeMPOraL]

Might not be the amount, you may have not controlled for humidity or temperature (wink wink), or just that the timer on your oven is off by one minute per every ten minutes, and its bang-bang thermostat never actually reaches the temperature you set on the panel, and...

... in some sense, it's a miracle most people deal with this kind of bullshit without complaining much.

(Probably because they don't realize it's something to complain about. It's just how things are.)