Igor Kukolj

Editor, The Dish Lab — a Bytebarge LLC publication.

What the role covers here

I run this site and I am accountable for what is on it. If a page is wrong, it is my problem to fix, and the contact page reaches me directly.

What it does not claim

I have not cooked these dishes, and neither has anybody else on this site. That is worth stating plainly on the page where a byline would normally imply the opposite. A recipe byline on most sites carries an implication — that the person named stood over the pan and got this right on the fourth attempt. That implication would be false here, so it is not made.

What the pages are instead: reconstructions worked out from what a dish demonstrably contains and how the technique behaves, with the reasoning shown so you can disagree with it. Where a company has published an ingredient list or a real recipe exists, the page says so and points at it rather than pretending to have cracked a secret.

Why say any of this

Because the alternative is what most of this category does: an invented cook with an invented childhood memory, and a five-star average from reviews nobody left. Those are cheap to fabricate, which is exactly why they are worthless as evidence. A named editor who tells you what he did not do is worth more than a persona who tells you what he did.

The full rules are in the editorial policy, and how a page gets made is in the methodology.