Cooking
Everyone claims they can cook. Which usually just means they can turn on the oven without setting something on fire. Some people will absolutely panic if the asparagus spends an extra forty-five seconds in the water. Same word. Completely different thing.
I’ve watched cooking become performance. The internet did that. You need the right knife, the right pasta water, you need to know the best angles. It’s exhausting to watch and worse to actually do.
The actual thing—feeding yourself—is straightforward. You follow steps, you pay attention, you get better. But that became something else somewhere. A lifestyle. A personality. Everyone’s an expert on salt.
What most people want is to just make something edible without it becoming this whole production. They need the basics explained straight, without any of the theater. That’s not fun to film, so it doesn’t really exist.