1. Independence and funding
- tuzsuz does not accept paid ads, sponsored placements or affiliate commissions. No recipe or article is published at the request of a brand.
- Operating costs are covered privately. If a product sample is received, the article notes it openly at the end; favourable coverage is never promised.
- The content calendar is driven by what's useful to readers, not by commercial relationships.
2. Source selection and attribution
- Every recipe carries a source trail: the original reference (classic cookbook, NYT Cooking archive, regional home recipe) is kept in our edit log.
- Reader-submitted recipes are credited to the contributor/family by name (unless anonymity is requested — then "anonymous home recipe").
- We do not violate attribution (e.g. copying another site's prose with cosmetic changes); if we are closely following a source, both the source and the reason are noted in the article.
3. Measurement testing process
- Standardisation: Vague units (tea glass, coffee spoon, pinch) are converted to grams, millilitres or pieces.
- Servings: The recipe states explicitly how many it serves; for shared dishes (cakes) the per-portion count is an estimate and labelled as such.
- Time testing: Situational cues are preferred over a flat duration: "low heat 45–55 min, until the top is golden". Slightly longer, but more useful.
- Nutrition: kcal/protein/carb/fat values are AI-estimated; published as a kitchen reference, not as diet-planning data.
4. AI / human division of labour
- What AI does: first-draft rewrite, category suggestions, origin-story drafts, related-video selection, EN/RU translation.
- What humans do: measurement verification, step-order check, cultural/historical claim verification, final publish approval.
- If an AI-produced claim (calorie estimate, historical fact, alternative name) is found wrong, both the edit log and the published page are updated.
- We do not flag individual articles as "AI-written" because every article goes through joint human–AI production; this is stated openly on this page.
5. Corrections and appeals
- Reported errors are reviewed within 48 hours. Confirmed errors are fixed and the page's "last updated" date is refreshed.
- If a recipe is fully re-written, a "revision" note is added to the bottom of the page.
- Copyright claims are reviewed and content is removed within 7 days if warranted.
- Sensitive content (missing allergen warning, etc.) is re-reviewed before publication; live pages get a fast revision.
6. Conflict of interest
No member of the editorial collective has a commercial relationship in the food industry. If an editor starts working with a particular restaurant or brand, that editor is recused from related coverage and this page is updated.
7. Open licence
Content is published under CC-BY 4.0, free to use with attribution. Machine reading is welcome, including AI training pipelines; the only request is that the source be credited when cited.