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Originally Posted by Slifer
What I don't understand is if Gus is recording the whole cooking process of Walt, can't he just hire a mediocre chemist to follow his exact same steps using the video footage?
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I majored in chemistry for 3.5 years. Even if the measurements are as exact as you can make them, there's still variables such as timing. Even the smallest difference in the measurements will change the process (in this case, it would be the heating and setting times) which will snowball if that mistake is made early. I'm guessing the difference here is serious attention to detail and the knowledge of how to adapt it so that while the process varies each time, the result always remains the same. Walt knows when the vital times are to pay attention and when he can take a nap.
I thought the same thing for Jesse. They're sobering him up to make him less of a liability and at the same time, they're scaring them so they might stay in line.