Everyone and I mean everyone who posesses a stove, Emeril or not,  would have a universal understanding that the icing decoration displayed on the cake of his was added afterwards and did not emerge from the oven like that.  Why? Because they have all used a stove.

Can you say that of a specialised program like Poser?   If it claims to be able to produce renders such as the given examples out of the box, then it had better be able to do so, or the claim is inaccurate and misleading.

It's as black-and-white as that, and no I don't believe that there's room here for graduated  shades of grey.