Guides

Practical answers to the questions that come up between finding a recipe and actually cooking it.

How to scale a recipe
What actually scales when you double a recipe — and the four numbers that don't.
How to get the recipe without the story
Why the life story is there, whose fault it isn't, and four ways past it.
How to format a recipe as a table
Build one by hand — ingredients as rows, steps as merged cells, one rule.