Editorial standards

These are the rules every recipe on this site follows. They are also enforced by our publishing system, which refuses to publish a recipe that is missing required information.

Every published recipe has

• A specific title and a description that matches the dish.
• Prep, cook and total times, where the total equals prep plus cook plus any listed resting or chilling time.
• A yield, and quantities with units for every measurable ingredient.
• Metric equivalents for ingredients measured by cup, ounce or pound.
• Numbered steps that state visual cues as well as times.
• A safe internal temperature for any step that cooks meat, poultry, fish or egg dishes.
• Storage guidance: fridge, freezer, reheating and make-ahead notes.
• An image that depicts the dish it accompanies, with descriptive alternative text.

Dietary labels

We tag a recipe vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free or dairy-free only when none of its ingredients contain the excluded food. Gluten-free tags also carry a reminder to check labels on packaged ingredients, because some brands contain gluten or risk cross-contact. Our publishing checks scan ingredients for common conflicts, such as wheat-based products in a recipe tagged gluten-free.

What we do not publish

• Ratings or reviews that did not come from real readers.
• Nutrition figures that have not been calculated from a recognised food-composition database. When we add nutrition, we will state the method and label it an estimate.
• Health claims about individual recipes.
• Photographs of a different dish presented as the recipe.

Images

Every photograph shows the dish or subject it accompanies, and we record its source, photographer and licence. Photographers are listed on our image credits page.