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Results differ from kitchen to kitchen

Each recipe is written to be as clear and dependable as we can make it, although the outcome still depends on your ingredients, your stove or oven, your altitude and how practised you are with a given technique. Treat the stated times and quantities as a carefully tested starting point rather than a promise.

Safe handling rests with the cook

Where a recipe involves raw meat, poultry, eggs, dairy or deep frying, it carries food-safety notes covering safe internal temperatures and how long leftovers keep. Those notes are given in good faith, but the responsibility for safe handling in your own kitchen is yours, which includes confirming that ingredients are fresh, cooking meat and poultry through to a safe internal temperature, and throwing away anything you suspect has spoiled.

The site also advises against unsafe habits with frying oil, such as heating it again and again beyond its smoke point, topping up old oil with fresh without end, or keeping used oil in poor conditions.

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