# Correct forum for recipe questions

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**Created:** [January 13, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correct-forum-for-recipe-questions/148361 "2003-01-13T20:12:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![SpaceDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spacedog/32/9932_2.png) [@SpaceDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceDog)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correct-forum-for-recipe-questions/148361/1 "2003-01-13T20:12:38Z")

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Hi,

I’ve been posting here a bit and lurking a lot, and I’m wondering about which forum to ask a question in.

I want to find out what’s in a particular recipe, so that’s a question and it should go in GQ … however most recipe stuff seems to go in MPSIMS and since there’s not one way to do any recipe I think it might be more suited to that.

So, what to do, where should I put the question ?

I figured I’d post here and get a definitive answer which might a) inform other lurking newbies and b) save me feeling like a doofus when my thread gets shifted.

Thanks,

SD

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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correct-forum-for-recipe-questions/148361/2 "2003-01-13T20:47:51Z")

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Actually, I think it goes in Cafe Society, since cooking is an art form.

Reference: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=154576](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=154576)

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**Author:** ![SpaceDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spacedog/32/9932_2.png) [@SpaceDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceDog)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correct-forum-for-recipe-questions/148361/3 "2003-01-13T21:15:25Z")

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Thanks **Achernar**!

It’s off to Cafe Society with me I guess then.

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correct-forum-for-recipe-questions/148361/4 "2003-01-13T23:07:11Z")

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Yeah, cooking is an art form… depends on who’s doing the cooking, though. My mother-in-law can overcook anything, it’s an art form all right.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correct-forum-for-recipe-questions/148361/5 "2003-01-14T00:26:16Z")

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I notice you say that here where your mother-in-law can’t hear you. Ye wee timorous beastie!

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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correct-forum-for-recipe-questions/148361/6 "2003-01-14T01:10:41Z")

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I thought **OpalCat** was his mother-in-law. She’ll probably be by any minute to bong him on the head with a cast-iron skillet.

So. There are THREE REASONS cooking is an art form…