a &quot;kitchen monad&quot; may seem to be a overkill for doing what you (or your mom) may need to bake a small number of cakes for you to consume<p>but<p>bakery monads are what is needed if you want to bake hundreds of thousands of cakes of hundreds of different variations (types) in a manageable manner.<p>FP starts to make (more and obvious) sense there not in the small household kitchen. But even then that is not to say that FP doesn&#x27;t make sense in a small household kitchen. Only, it is very difficult to make sense of that sense at the smaller scales.