Comment by TeMPOraL

> It's weird when people praise home-cooked meals, because I've found restaurants that have great food. Heck, I've been to various traditional sit-down restaurants where they bring you the food in one minute and is faster than standing in line at McDonald's.

It's also weird when people praise home-cooked meals and even restaurants but diss McDonald's. As I'm fond of saying, the difference between cooking and process engineering is that the latter actually cares about quality of outcome.

There's a lot of stuff you simply can't make at home, because the necessary equipment is beyond what's allowed in residential conditions (think e.g. pizza ovens, which run 100-200°C hotter than where consumer ovens max out), and on top of that, standard cooking appliances have little to no means of quality and consistency control - it's only industry that bothers with such things.