Well, sure, if you like your food some certain way, then cook it for yourself that way.
But a lot of the "scientific cooking" is about repeatability. I know I like my steaks rare, edge to edge, with a hard sear. I know that the easiest way for me to accomplish that is using an immersion circulator, combi oven, or reverse sear, drying it (and if I have time, cooling it down briefly), and then either searing/basting it in cast iron or finishing it off on my kamado grill with the temperature ramped up to inferno.
I've cooked hundreds of steaks just on a grill, or just in a pan. I can nail a rare or medium rare steak on the grill, and adjust for temp, etc. But there are inherent limitations to those methods - it might be rare in the center, but simply because of the physics at play, more of the meat than just the surface is going to be well done.
And as for the myths in the article... a lot of these are just things that are patently untrue. It's not about "scientific cooking" vs. cooking to personal taste, people just believe a lot of things that are just flat out wrong.
But a lot of the "scientific cooking" is about repeatability. I know I like my steaks rare, edge to edge, with a hard sear. I know that the easiest way for me to accomplish that is using an immersion circulator, combi oven, or reverse sear, drying it (and if I have time, cooling it down briefly), and then either searing/basting it in cast iron or finishing it off on my kamado grill with the temperature ramped up to inferno.
I've cooked hundreds of steaks just on a grill, or just in a pan. I can nail a rare or medium rare steak on the grill, and adjust for temp, etc. But there are inherent limitations to those methods - it might be rare in the center, but simply because of the physics at play, more of the meat than just the surface is going to be well done.
And as for the myths in the article... a lot of these are just things that are patently untrue. It's not about "scientific cooking" vs. cooking to personal taste, people just believe a lot of things that are just flat out wrong.