If Bob’s tomato sauce were great, most likely Alice would be saying ”… And that’s why the only thing you can cook well is tomato sauce, because you’ve spent every minute you’re in the kitchen trying minor variations on your tomato sauce recipe”. Of course, Bob might instead have taken a decent recipe someone else made up and not bothered experimenting with it; in that case the right response might be more like “So how come you never tried that with your own tomato sauce recipe? I think it’s because deep down you know it’s impractical”.
If Bob’s tomato sauce were great, most likely Alice would be saying ”… And that’s why the only thing you can cook well is tomato sauce, because you’ve spent every minute you’re in the kitchen trying minor variations on your tomato sauce recipe”. Of course, Bob might instead have taken a decent recipe someone else made up and not bothered experimenting with it; in that case the right response might be more like “So how come you never tried that with your own tomato sauce recipe? I think it’s because deep down you know it’s impractical”.
Empirically, this is wrong.