"Janet" > wrote in message
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> "MOST" bakers may be the key point. MOST people are lousy cooks in
> general. That doesn't mean that a good cook cannot prepare a dish that
> outshines something produced in a mediocre restaurant or a boxed mix. If
> people bake cakes from scratch using lousy technique, ingredients,
> recipes, and equipment, then indeed a box might be better, because it has
> been contstructed to be more or less idiot-proof.

I've found MOST people to be good cooks in general, but I'm older so
probably a lot more from scratch cooks around me.

Cheri