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20 questions linked to/from What should our FAQ contain?
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Are questions on alcohol beverages allowed?
Is it allowed to ask questions on:
wine (eg. does red wine suits to chicken?)
vodka (eg. how to make herbal liqueur from vodka?)
beer (eg. what kind of beer is best for Beer Can Chicken - I know its ...
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Should "I need a recipe for X?" questions be off-topic?
First discussed when the site was proposed: What's a good recipe for <insert some dish>?
I believe that allowing recipe exchanges in a professional Q&A site would be a huge mistake. The "low-...
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Create a "recipes" meta site
So we have fairly strong support for the idea that recipe requests (AKA "recipe-swapping" questions) should be out of scope for the main site. I'd prefer not to rehash the rationale; for anyone who's ...
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Are questions about equipment off topic?
There have been a few questions about knives, and these seem on topic but a question about an ice cream maker part, is this on or off topic? and for what reason?
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Restaurant mimicry questions allowed?
This is somewhat related to 'Should “I need a recipe for X?” questions be off-topic?'. The idea is, if I really like dish/sauce/etc at restaurant Y - is a question asking - 'what is the recipe for [...
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Asking beginner-level questions
I'm pretty much a beginner when it comes to cooking but I'd really like to learn more, and having lots of experience with stackoverflow, a cooking exchange piques my interest. However, from reading ...
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Are questions about kitchen safety on topic?
I'll admit, this is spurred by the fact that I burned my hand yesterday while cooking. But there are common cooking situations that relate to kitchen safety -- dealing with burns and cuts, how to ...
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What's the point of cooking.stackexchange.com? I find it useless so far. [closed]
I asked this question.
https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/5998/what-is-your-favorite-thing-to-add-to-green-tea
hobodave called it a 'getting to know you' question and suggests that cooking....
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Are "How do I store x" type questions off topic?
There are a few questions cropping up about "how do I store x" or "how long can I keep x before it goes off" and whilst I think food preservation is interesting, I tend to think that these are off ...
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Difference between "health" and "nutrition" tags.
Re: Does microwaving destroy nutrients in food?
I wasn't sure if I should add the health tag to this question or not. Nutrition, obviously, fits the bill here. However, I'm not sure how the health ...
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What are the guidelines for questions about nutrition / nutritional content?
The FAQ states that 'General health and diet issue (e.g. "Is cauliflower healthy?")' questions are off-topic. This answer backs that up. This question (Google's cache for non-10K folks) about ...
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resturant's kitchen administration (e.g. scheduling) questions ?
I was wondering if questions about a restaurant's kitchen management are on-topic or not.
example: how can I prepare this faster ? can you suggest a better menu to reduce waste ? How can I ...
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Should this "recipe" question have been closed/deleted?
I just want to put it out there - even though I'm firmly in the camp of recipe-swapping being off-topic, that doesn't mean we immediately need to close every question with the word recipe.
The ...
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Proposed FAQ - let's start the list
I didn't see this started elsewhere, so I thought I would give it a shot.
Perhaps while it's being worked out, not yet posted as the official FAQ, we can even point people to this meta post. That ...
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Get the FAQ up, please.
Today I told a user to please read the FAQ to understand why recipe questions were off-topic. He did. He said it didn't help. He's right. One of my biggest issues with the current state of things ...
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