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No, empty praise is still worthless, because Said's cooking and baking not perfect, and there is with near certainty some small flaw, some awkward stylistic choice that could use improvement. Best is the gentle nitpicking of these flaws with a prepended (This is amazing, but) and with the consequent inference that the bread/food/what have you is actually already REALLY GOOD.
There is value to knowing the quality of your work apart from knowing ways to improve it.
For example, "Should I personally cook something for this upcoming potluck, or should I let my spouse do it?"
The problem is that knowing how well you cook doesn't really affect who should cook past a certain basic point of competence, as far as I can tell.