User:Macrakis/cookbook

Wikipedia's page on What Wikipedia is not says that articles should not read like cookbooks or recipes. This page elaborates on that.

Quantities
Modern recipes include measurements, either precise (120 grams of flour) or rough (a pinch of salt). Wikipedia articles do not include measurements, although they may give qualitative indications of relative quantity.

Quality of ingredients
Do not give indications of the quality of ingredients, even if they make a big difference to the quality of the end result: "best baking chocolate", "pure vanilla extract", "extra-virgin olive oil", "grass-fed beef", "genuine Parmigiano Reggiano"; and especially not peacock language typically found in marketing materials: "fine creamery butter", "vine-ripened tomatoes".

Instructional language (cf. Manual_of_Style)
Do not give instructions, either saying what to do ("mix the eggs with the sugar") or how to determine whether a process is complete ("to taste", "until it forms a ribbon")

Detailed method ("carefully", "gently").