I agree when you go into a restaurant probably 90% of the time you are paying for the convenience. Of course you are looking at it from the standpoint of someone with some natural skills. I know plenty of folks who (like I said) can't boil water or who can't or won't follow instructions. My wife is a great example. I've told her a million times you heat a pan to proper temp and then put the food in and cook at the proper temp. She throws the food into a cold pan turns the heat to max burns everything. The same with using a microwave. To her the thing has only two settings off and max.

I live in high altitude and when it comes to baking standard recipes don't work and standard recommendations don't work so hot either. You have to finesse recipes for them to come out right. of course you can get high altitude recipes but they are in short supply and are set for standard altitudes with few exceptions.

That's why most folks pick up a boxed ecuse for baked products at the grocer. Those are foolproof. Even my wife can do it.