I'm so bored of recipe scenes

No, not cooking scenes. There's plenty of ways you can do cooking scenes, from just a few shots to fill in space in an episode of some show, to a layered character bonding experience, to a gag, to the premise of the entire work. There's some tropes in cooking scenes I'm personally tired about, but that's not what this rant is about.

No, what I'm tired of is when I see a character start talking about all the steps of the cooking process, usually in a way that addresses the audience more than it addresses any other characters. Like, what? I'm in the middle of consuming a work of fiction, I am not getting anything from watching a fictional character dictate their preferences for how to prepare some meal.

If it's a food item that I would be interested in eating, then I'm simply going to need to look up a more specific recipe to actually cook it. The show or whatever is probably going to miss out on what temperature, how long, and/or which oven rack I ought to use, if it didn't skip over any number of other steps. And if it's a food item I'm not interested in eating, then I certainly don't need to know how to make it.

There's three factors that can compound this issue. Firstly, if a recipe starts showing up in a show or movie, then that makes it worse. I'm sitting here watching something, and I'm not gonna go back to this scene to go and look up this recipe. Cooking videos and shows are already going to be lengthier than just reading a recipe, but at least those are works dedicated to actually teaching you how to cook, not some minute-long segment of a greater work. At least in a book or manga you can usually cram the recipe into something that takes up much less time, visually resembles what you might actually read for a recipe (including, y'know, actually being a complete recipe), can be referenced later if I actually decide to cook this food ever, and can be skipped if I the reader feel as though the specific recipe details aren't actually necessary to read.

Secondly, if the recipe comes from an animated work, then I'm just completely out of luck. Animated food doesn't have to resemble how real food looks or cuts or bakes or browns or stacks in any way. I'm already skeptical that this recipe a work of fiction is presenting will be any good, and now I just have to trust that the meal will come out like the pristine drawing the animators cooked up? Not likely.

Finally, if the recipe comes from a fantasy world, then what the heck am I supposed to do now? I'm being dictated a recipe I couldn't possibly follow. Sometimes the differences are small and minor (different types of milk, pepper, etc. from the ones in the real world), but even just including a fictional gourd means I have no idea what I ought to use if I were to follow the recipe. Acorn squash? Spaghetti squash? Zucchini? Who knows! If you're gonna go the fantastical route, then at least have the decency to do what Delicious in Dungeon did by making the ingredients not resemble ours at all because they're bugs shaped like treasure, or something like that.

Now, I think it's pretty plainly obvious for both the writers and the audience that these types of scenes really aren't meant to be instructional. But if that's the case, why are they framed like they are? Could you just not manage to write the scene with more input from other characters in the cooking process? Write in some more gags? Chop off a few fingers, I dunno? Do anything other than waste my time?

Scenes like this usually just come and go, or show up in spin-off material that was mostly meant to be promotional anyway. And when these scenes know their place, the recipe aspect ends up properly de-emphasized, they just turn into normal cooking scenes. But even then, I look at a spin-off like Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, with 5 volumes of vignettes which each include cooking some specially detailed fictional recipe using fictional ingredients and magical kitchenware, and I just have to wonder how I'm suppose to read anything more than just a few chapters. Uck.

Anyways, go cook a frittata. I know you want one. I recommend one with peppers, mushrooms, and potatoes. And if I wanted to be meta, I'd provide you with a recipe but intentionally leave out the quantities of all the ingredients whilst I wax on about how you need to be precise with the cooking time, which I also won't provide an estimate for. Wouldn't that just be delicious?