How to spot good recipes: A checklist

Who can you trust when it comes to cooking from a blog or investing in a cookbook? You should know, because a bad recipe -- one that is poorly written, or worse yet, untested -- can make you feel like a failure.

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  • Does the recipe tell you what you can prepare ahead?

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  • Does it tell you how to store the food and for how long?

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  • Are the ingredients specific -- not "1 pound beef," but "1 pound well-marbled beef chuck"?

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  • Do the instructions tell you

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  • What kind of pot and utensils to use? 

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  • The level of heat and/or the timing needed for each step?

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  • What the food should look like, sound like, and/or smell like?

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  • How to know if it's done?

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  • How to serve?

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