Recipe Standards

A good recipe on Waatokok has clear ingredients and instructions someone could actually follow. We ask contributors to share recipes that genuinely work in their own kitchen — not just a list of ingredients or a vague idea.

Contributors should submit recipes, photos, and other content they created themselves or have permission to publish. Copied, plagiarized, or misappropriated content isn't welcome here.

Uploaded photos and linked videos should show the actual recipe or food being described — not unrelated, misleading, or stock imagery.

Before a submission from the community appears publicly, a moderator reviews it. A recipe may be rejected or need changes if, for example, the ingredients or instructions are missing or unclear, a linked photo or video doesn't match the recipe, the submission looks like spam or a duplicate of an existing recipe, or it doesn't appear to be a real recipe. Contributors are notified when a recipe needs changes so they can fix it and resubmit.

Recipes submitted or edited directly by our own moderator team are treated as already reviewed and go live right away.

Some recipes on Waatokok are written by our own team rather than submitted by the community; these are held to the same standards described on this page.

While your recipe waits for review, it shows as pending in “My recipes”. We email you when it's published and when it needs changes, with the reason, so you can fix it and send it again.

If a published recipe later needs a correction, a moderator can send it back to review with a note for you; we let you know by email, and it's published again once we've reviewed it.

When you use WaatoBrain, it builds a personal version of a recipe for you by applying substitutions our team has reviewed. That version isn't published as a new recipe and isn't separately reviewed. The reviewed original recipe never changes, and its author stays credited.

Star ratings and comments reflect the personal opinions and experiences of the users who posted them — not an editorial endorsement or verification by Waatokok.

Information like servings, prep/cook time, category, cuisine, or difficulty is entered by the contributor — or, for some recipes, by our own editorial team — to help you decide what to cook. It isn't professionally tested, medically reviewed, or independently fact-checked, so treat it as a helpful estimate rather than a guarantee.

A recipe may be edited or corrected after it's published, by its original contributor or, when needed, by a moderator — for example to fix a broken link or an accuracy issue — so it stays useful and accurate.