Not at all. Imagine it, being in a lab to create a simple healing potion and you start asking yourself, why boil the aloe vera, why roast the Nettle? Asking why was important but sometimes one does not enter the lab to research, creating potions could also be therapeutic.
A recipe contained well-researched ingredients and steps. You could relax your mind and follow the steps, you do not even have to think or question anything. When you are done, your muscles will ache in the nicest way but your shoulders will drop down, your breathing free and relaxed.
However Zane had no intention of saying all these things to this professor who wanted to make this a teaching moment for his son, he scratched his head, looking every bit the awkward youth, "I just started potion making a few months ago." He chuckled nervously, "I have not yet thought about this kind of thing." He had no intention to offer the graduate student who might be someone in the future either.
