Breaking Bad....Only in America

[Rev. Rye]

It is a good show, but can you tell me this. Why do they waste time stealing methylamine just to make their precursor when they could instead use phenylalanine to make amphetamine as their precursor which results in a far simpler cook (amphetamine + chloromethane + vapourize together = meth), and would mean they don't need to get their hands on any difficult-to-obtain and restricted chemicals? Here's a link. Converting Phe to amphetamine is also very easy, and the whole cook is a lot simpler, and for that matter safer, than a P2P cook. Mr White obviously can't be a very good chemistry teacher if he wants to make meth the hardest imaginable way!

Some one should do a comic of that!

I remember there being a scene where alternative methods are discussed. Idk if they address that in particular, but I know Walter has a very specific way he makes his product, and any other method, whether it be easier or safer or whatever, doesn't produce the quality that he wanted.

That, and Walt's issues with hubris certainly help explain it; If memory serves, in Season 4, Walt actually talked Hank out of thinking Gale was Heisenberg because he wouldn't let anyone else take credit for his own work.