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A recipe carries the name of the person who cooked it, or it carries a house byline and a test log that names them.\",\n    \"We do not publish health, nutrition or dietary advice, and recipes carry no nutrition panel by default.\",\n    \"We do not review anything we could not afford to criticise, and ingredient quality pages carry no affiliate links or sponsorship at all.\",\n    \"We do not write food-safety guidance. We report what named authorities publish, with dates, and link to them.\",\n  ];\n\n  const faqs = [\n    {\n      q: \"Who writes this site?\",\n      a:\n        \"It is written under the house byline, The Gentle Fork. Any page that reports a measured result names the person who ran the test and the date they ran it; a page without that record makes no measured claim. Where a page carries a house byline, the test log behind it still names the cook.\",\n    },\n    {\n      q: \"Is the site new?\",\n      a:\n        \"Yes. It launched recently and it has no history before that. We are saying so plainly here because publications in this category routinely imply a heritage they do not have, and because the first thing you should know about a site publishing numbers is how long it has been publishing them.\",\n    },\n    {\n      q: \"Are you professional chefs?\",\n      a:\n        \"No, and we will not imply otherwise. The work here is reader-run measurement, repetition, and honest recording. Food-safety guidance is limited to current official sources and validated processes; individual or commercial food-safety decisions go to the relevant authority or qualified professional.\",\n    },\n    {\n      q: \"Why so much emphasis on failure?\",\n      a:\n        \"Because the failure temperature is the most useful number on a recipe page, and because a publication that only shows its successes is not showing you its method. That is why the test protocol takes a batch past the window on purpose and logs failed runs instead of discarding them.\",\n    },\n    {\n      q: \"What is deliberately out of scope?\",\n      a:\n        \"High-heat cooking — grilling, live fire, coals, pizza ovens, hard searing as a primary method. Restaurant reviews, listings and bookings. Health, nutrition and dietary content. Home canning and shelf-stable preserving, which we refer out rather than cover.\",\n    },\n    {\n      q: \"How do you decide what to test next?\",\n      a:\n        \"By where the information gap is largest, not by search volume. If a technique is widely taught with an adverb where a number belongs, it goes on the list.\",\n    },\n    {\n      q: \"What if a number here looks wrong?\",\n      a:\n        \"Treat it as unverified until it checks out. A measured number must come with a test log naming the cook, the date, the equipment and the run count; a cited number must name its source and the date it was retrieved. If either is missing, or your own calibrated reading disagrees, do not rely on it. A number that changes is corrected on the page that carries it, with the reason stated, rather than silently edited.\",\n    },\n  ];\n\n  return (\n    _react2.default.createElement('div', { style: { margin: \"0 auto\", maxWidth: 780, padding: \"0 20px 72px\", lineHeight: 1.65, fontSize: 18, color: \"#1c1a17\" }, className: \"reading-thegentlefork-about reading-guide\" , 'data-reading-page': \"about\",}, _react2.default.createElement('style', null, `\n.reading-thegentlefork-about{box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;max-width:880px;margin:0 auto;padding:64px clamp(20px,5vw,64px) 80px;color:var(--c11tihf5-runtime-text);background:var(--c11tihf5-runtime-bg);font-family:var(--c11tihf5-font-body);font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;overflow-wrap:anywhere}\n.reading-thegentlefork-about *{box-sizing:border-box} .reading-thegentlefork-about :is(h1,h2,h3){font-family:var(--c11tihf5-font-heading);font-weight:400;color:var(--c11tihf5-runtime-text);text-wrap:balance}\n.reading-thegentlefork-about 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Its whole purpose is to replace the adverbs in recipe writing with numbers somebody actually measured.\"\n\n\n\n      )\n\n      , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"Why the site exists\"   )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Almost every dish a competent cook ruins is ruined the same way: too hot, too fast, too much handling. Eggs scramble when they should stay silk. Fish goes from translucent to chalk in ninety seconds. Garlic turns acrid before the onion has softened. A cream sauce splits at the last moment.\"\n\n\n\n      )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"The information that would prevent all of this — what temperature, held for how long, and at what point exactly does it break — is the most useful thing in cooking and the thing recipes systematically refuse to publish. “Medium-low heat” is not a number. “Until thickened” is not a doneness test. We are trying to close that gap one measurement at a time.\"\n\n\n\n\n      )\n\n      , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"How the work is done\"    )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"A measured number starts with someone cooking the dish. They cook it with a probe in it, on stated equipment, in stated conditions, and they write down what happened — including the runs that failed. Then they cook it again. The numbers that survive go on the page with the tester’s name and the date attached, and the ones that came from elsewhere carry the name of the source and the date we retrieved it.\"\n\n\n\n\n      )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"The full protocol is public on \"\n              , _react2.default.createElement('a', { href: \"/method/how-we-test\",}, \"how we test\"  ), \". It is deliberately boring, and it is the only thing that makes the rest of the site worth reading.\"\n\n      )\n\n      , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"What we will not do\"    )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('ul', { className: \"gf-list\",}\n        , refusals.map((r) => (\n          _react2.default.createElement('li', { key: r,}, r)\n        ))\n      )\n\n      , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"An honest statement about the site’s age\"      )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('div', { className: \"gf-note\",}\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', { style: { margin: 0 },}, \"The Gentle Fork is a new publication. It has no back catalogue, no founding story, no restaurant lineage and no accumulated authority. What it has is a published method and a permanent evidence rule: a site-owned number requires a dated log, and an external number requires a named source. A page without that evidence makes no numeric claim.\"\n\n\n\n\n        )\n      )\n\n      , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"Where the money comes from\"    )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Nowhere. There are no display ads, affiliate links, sponsorships or email gates. This page describes the site's current model rather than promising a future commercial one.\"\n\n\n      )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Ingredient quality articles, such as\"\n            , \" \"\n        , _react2.default.createElement('a', { href: \"/blog/worth-paying-more-for\",}, \"twelve ingredients worth paying more for, and eight that aren't\"         ), \", carry no affiliate links and take no sponsorship, permanently, because their entire value is that nobody paid for the answer.\"\n\n\n      )\n\n      , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"Questions\")\n      , faqs.map((f) => (\n        _react2.default.createElement('div', { key: f.q, style: { marginBottom: 18 },}\n          , _react2.default.createElement('h3', { style: { marginBottom: 6, fontSize: \"1.05rem\" },}, f.q)\n          , _react2.default.createElement('p', { style: { margin: 0 },}, f.a)\n        )\n      ))\n\n      , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"Where to go next\"   )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"If you are new, \"\n            , _react2.default.createElement('a', { href: \"/start-here\",}, \"start here\" ), \". If you want to judge the method before the numbers, read \"\n         , _react2.default.createElement('a', { href: \"/method\",}, \"the method\" ), \" and the \"   , _react2.default.createElement('a', { href: \"/method/how-we-test\",}, \"test protocol\" ), \" behind it.\"\n      )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('div', null\n        , _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"gf-cta\", href: \"/start-here\",}, \"Start here\" )\n        , _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"gf-cta secondary\" , href: \"/method\",}, \"Read the method\"  )\n      )\n    , _react2.default.createElement('aside', { className: \"reading-footer\",}, _react2.default.createElement('a', { href: \"/\",}, \"Back to The Gentle Fork\"    )))\n  );\n} exports.default = AboutPage;"}