Hot take: Packaged baklava blows bakery (fresh) baklava out of the water.
Age or ingredients don't matter much.
Baklava needs to be made just right to work. There's no room for error. And the machines seem to have a upper hand over us on precision.
Age or ingredients don't matter much.
Baklava needs to be made just right to work. There's no room for error. And the machines seem to have a upper hand over us on precision.
Immigrants touch I guess?
But the median packaged baklava blows the granny’s median baklava out of the water. There’s no contest.
For some things the artisan skill is in approaching machine level efficiency.
(of course in many cases, such as with baklava, hummus and pilsener beer the temptation then arises to cheap out on the ingredients, causing the factory to lose out to the granny, but the principle essentially holds)