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human
ELI5: Been watching cooking shows lately, is there a reason why chefs choose to forego measuring their ingredients?

Edit - Oh and I forgot: It is in shows like Iron Chef America, Cuttthroat Kitchen, Beat Bobby Flay, Chopped, Kitchen Nightmares if that helps.
gpt
if you are cooking and not baking, then measurements are pretty irrelevant.  You season food to taste not to any specific measurement.  You add an onion because you have an onion, it doesn't matter if it is 1 cup or 1.2 cups it will still taste good. Things like that.  In the end if you taste your food and adjust accordingly it will turn out well.