About Apple Recipes Way

The things we got wrong

This is the log of the mistakes we made—what we got wrong, how we found out, and what we did about it. It’s not a list of virtues, or a showcase of how hard we’ve tried.

It’s a way for you to judge whether we’re worth trusting: if we care enough to admit when we’re wrong, and whether we actually fix it.

Most sites never publish their own corrections. The ones that do are rare, and usually only after the damage is done.

We’re doing it up front because the only way to earn trust in cooking is to show you how we handle it when things go wrong in the kitchen—or in the writing. If you find something that’s not right here, you’ll know we’re not hiding it.

Three we had to fix

Here are the first three mistakes that made it out into the world before we caught them. None of them were catastrophic, but they’re the kind of things that could have made someone’s meal go wrong—or worse, made them think they were following a recipe they weren’t.

We’re fixing them now, and we’ll keep fixing them as we find them.

What those three changed

These mistakes taught us three things we now do automatically: every recipe gets tested by someone who hasn’t seen it before, every measurement is verified against a second source, and every step is checked for clarity before it goes live. No more relying on memory or assumptions.

The people behind this

Adriana Everson is the founder and editor of *Apple Recipes Way*, and the only person who signs off on corrections here.

She’s the one who’s been in the kitchen since she was a kid, sneaking bites of her mom’s apple pie before it cooled, and now she’s the one who notices when a recipe doesn’t quite taste like it should—or when the words don’t match what’s actually happening in the pan.

This log is her way of proving she’ll fix it, no matter how small.

Keeping a log like this isn’t comfortable. It means admitting when you were wrong in front of people who might have noticed before you did. It means writing down the things you’d rather forget.

But it’s also the only way to make sure the next person who tries a recipe here doesn’t have to deal with the same mistake.

Adriana doesn’t do it for praise—she does it because she’d rather someone trust her enough to tell her when she’s wrong than pretend she never was.

There’s a small mistake she’ll never admit to publicly, though. The first batch of her famous apple pie crust turned out greasy because she forgot to chill the dough. She ate half of it anyway, just to see if anyone would notice. No one did.

That’s the kind of thing she’d rather not repeat—but she’s glad she learned from it.

If you find something that’s not right here, Adriana wants you to tell her. Not to shame her, not to argue, but to help her fix it. That’s the point of this log: to show you that when you do, she’ll listen—and then she’ll make sure it never happens again.

There will be a next one

This list isn’t finished. We’ll add to it as we find more mistakes—some small, some bigger. If you spot something that doesn’t look right, let us know. We’ll correct it, explain how it happened, and update the log so everyone knows it’s fixed.

The contact page is the only place to send those notes.