— Honest about our tools
AI Content
Policy.
Where technology meets the kitchen — and where
the human cook always has the final word.
— A note from our editors
At The Recipe Craft, we embrace useful technology while protecting what matters most — recipes that work, stories told by real cooks, and the warmth of a kitchen you can trust. This policy explains, in plain language, how we use AI tools and where we firmly choose not to.
Last revised: [DATE]
01
— Our Approach
Tools, not authors.
A wooden spoon, a digital scale, a search engine, an AI assistant — they are all tools. Useful in the right hands, useless without a cook who knows what good food tastes like. That is how we treat artificial intelligence at The Recipe Craft. AI helps us do back-of-house work more efficiently — checking spelling, transcribing interviews, suggesting alt text for accessibility — but it does not write our recipes, take our photographs, or speak in our voice.
Every word, photograph, and tested measurement on this site comes from a human being who cooked it, tasted it, and stood by the result. That is a promise — and the rest of this page is the detail behind it.
02
— How We Use AI
Where AI helps in our kitchen.
Recipe Structure & Formatting
AI tools help us keep our recipe cards consistent — measurements aligned, steps numbered cleanly, ingredient lists in a logical order. This means whether you’re cooking a Tuesday-night soup or a Sunday roast, the recipe is laid out the same way. The structure is automated; the content, voice, and the small notes from the kitchen (“don’t skip the resting”) are always written by us.
Grammar & Readability
We use AI-powered proofreaders to catch typos, missed punctuation, and clunky sentences. Think of it as a quiet copy editor that flags possibilities — every suggestion is accepted or rejected by a human editor. Our voice is intentional, and we keep our em-dashes, our run-on warmth, and the occasional sentence fragment, even when an algorithm prefers tidier prose.
Search & Discoverability
AI helps us understand what readers are searching for — whether that’s “easy weeknight pasta” or “what to cook with leftover pumpkin.” We use those insights to write recipes people actually need, and to draft meta descriptions and image alt text that help our work reach kitchens beyond our regulars. We never rewrite a story to chase a keyword. The recipe comes first; the search optimization follows.
Fact-Checking & Verification
AI is useful for surfacing potential inconsistencies — a temperature that doesn’t match the source, a date that looks off — but it is never the last word on truth. Every fact, attribution, and historical claim is verified by a human against credible sources: cookbooks, peer-reviewed research, food historians, and the cooks who taught us. AI flags; humans verify.
Photography & Visuals
Every photograph of food, hands, kitchens, or cooks on The Recipe Craft is taken by a real person with a real camera. AI tools may assist with practical edits — colour correction, dust removal, upscaling for retina screens — but we do not generate photographs of finished dishes, ingredients, or people. If a dish appears in a photo, it was cooked in our kitchen and styled by our team.
Research Assistance
Our writers occasionally use AI as a research aid — generating a starting list of regional bread variations, summarising a long academic paper, or transcribing a recorded interview with a chef. These outputs are starting points, never finished work. Every claim that comes out of an AI tool is independently verified, every quote is checked against the original recording, and the writing itself is always done by a human.
03
— Human Oversight
The five-stage review.
Every recipe and article on The Recipe Craft passes through five human hands before it reaches yours. AI may quietly assist along the way, but a person signs off on every stage.
01
Cook & Draft
Our writer cooks the dish, takes notes, and drafts the recipe and story by hand.
02
Refine
AI assists with proofreading and structure; the writer accepts or rejects each suggestion.
03
Senior Edit
A senior editor reads for voice, accuracy, attribution, and warmth.
04
Fact-Check
Sources, measurements, and historical claims are verified independently against the original.
05
Final Sign-Off
A second editor performs a final read before the recipe goes live.
04
— Transparency
When AI helps, we say so.
When AI plays a meaningful role in a piece — for example, when nutrition figures are calculated using an AI-assisted tool, or when an interview is transcribed by software — we add a short note at the end of the post explaining what was used and how it was reviewed. We don’t disclose every spell-check or every meta-description suggestion, the same way a writer doesn’t credit her dictionary, but anything that could affect what you read or rely on, we tell you about.
If you ever wonder how a particular post came together — or you spot something that doesn’t feel right — we want to hear from you. The kitchen door is always open.
05
— What We Will Never Do
A short list of nevers.
Some lines we hold without exception. AI will never do these things at The Recipe Craft:
- Generate a recipe from scratch and publish it as ours.
- Write the personal essay or kitchen note that introduces a recipe.
- Create a photograph of a finished dish, an ingredient, a hand, or a person.
- Reply to a reader email or comment on our behalf.
- Process reader data — your messages, names, and stories stay between us.
- Replace human judgement on cultural attribution, dietary advice, or sourcing claims.
06
— Acceptance & Updates
Your use of this site.
By browsing The Recipe Craft, signing up for the Sunday Letter, or cooking from our recipes, you accept this AI policy. If anything here doesn’t sit right with you, please don’t use the site — we’d rather you cooked from somewhere you trust completely.
This policy is reviewed every January, and whenever a meaningful change in technology or industry standards calls for it. Substantial updates are announced in our Sunday Letter and at the bottom of this page. Continuing to use the site after we publish an update means you accept the revised version.
Date of last revision: [DATE]
— Questions about this policy
Talk to a real
human.
Concerns, corrections, or curiosity about how a piece was made —
every message reaches a person on our editorial team.
Editorial questions: editors@therecipecraft.com
Corrections: corrections@therecipecraft.com
General hellos: hello@therecipecraft.com
The Recipe Craft · Brooklyn, New York
Inbox hours: Monday — Friday, 9:00 to 17:00 EST
— With gratitude, The Recipe Craft team ♥