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From my experience a very robust process will always yield good results while a weak process will yield good results for some people some of the time much like you describe in grandmas recipe. What Alton does really well is show you a number of different cooking process/tricks that can be used from one recipe to the next. Even if you never cook the Alton recipe ever again you can borrow the process that Alton used and make a different or poorly documented recipe better. Between Kenji and Alton they have really come up with some great time saving/simplifications tricks that I used beyond their original recipes. But he is process-oriented, not results-oriented