I Voted to close this question. Do you agree?

Question

https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/1020/whats-your-go-to-recipe

I voted to close despite it's CW status because it was too chit-chatty. I think CW only indicates that there may be many right answers, each to varying degrees. I think it doesn't give license to ask whatever you want, and there needs to still be the possibility of a "right" answer. I think we're here to build a Q&A site, not a discussion forum.

Do you agree with these sentiments, and if not, what am missing? How is what I said above different from the intended purpose of a SE site?

Answer 1

Agree, though some questions of this type can be valid, I doubt this one is.

My grey area metric is, "could the average {cook/chef} learn something from this?" so sometimes it depends how the question shapes up..

If people are explaining HOW and WHY, not just "I love spaghetti!" then it could be useful to learn from. It depends.

Answer 2

I strongly disagree. This is a "must have question" for a cooking site, and its presence absolutely does not add noise. Moreover, as it is a community wiki, it is not a badge/reputation harvesting question. For being subjective, yes it is, but this is not an engineering site and many answer have to be subjective.

In reply to Jeff Atwood answer, some answer could be not useful, however the community will eventually filter the useful one by voting.

Answer 3

Since I asked the question I'll chime in. I asked the question with the intent of it being in a very grey area and seeing where it would fall. However, I think it does in fact fit Jeff's grey area metric. Specifically, I included in the original question text

if there's anything odd or different you do while making it, maybe include that in your response.

That's the learning point. Is a cook/chef going to find a recipe there he's never heard of? Not very likely. But is he going to get an idea of a different way to prepare an old dish? Seems at least plausible to me.

Beyond that, I also see a potential learning point in reading a response and going, "hey, that sounds really good, I haven't made that dish in forever," and then trying it. I'd call it the Food Network effect. An experienced cook/chef doesn't watch a cooking show and find recipes he's never heard of, but he does find recipe's he hasn't made ina while or has never made in exactly that way.

Anyway, if the community chooses to close it that's fine, just giving you my rationale for why I think it's a valid question.