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Quoting from the question: It seems to me that when a borderline question comes in, we have a few options: close it (with a good explanation of course) comment on it asking for clarification or rewr …

I intentionally didn't close that one because I was actually confused. Until you edited the question, the author hadn't even specified what location he was referring to. Now it makes a little more s …

I closed it. The question has nothing to do with food safety - the word "toxins" is a red flag normally associated with pseudoscience and fad diets, and even if the OP genuinely meant it in the sense …

The definition of closing has been made abundantly clear almost since the inception of the network: It’s important to note here that closing a question is a step on the road to deletion. … Closing means "this question does not belong here". If you change the question, then sure, it might then belong - emphasis on might. …

If the question is about... which foods/methods meet a specific macronutrient criteria: OK how a particular cooking method affects various nutrients: OK either of the above, while asserting obnoxiou …

Substitution questions generally have a pretty well-defined set of answers. They also have implicit constraints: Answers should normally be ingredients that mimic either the flavour or texture (most …

Please remember that the meaning of Community Wiki was changed (or rather clarified) some time ago, when it was permanently disabled for questions except as a moderator function; CW should never be us …

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 questio …

In closing, if your question refers to eating food that's already been cooked (or prepared for eating) then please think long and hard before posting it here, because it's likely to get closed. …