Perhaps it’s just me, but I’ve cooked recipes off of 50 year old, grease stained index cards written in barely legible cursive, whose ink has all but rubbed entirely away. And it was fine. Worrying about recipe format is like trying to improve reading as a technology. The state of the art is both really simple and really old. It’s hard to mess up (format-wise, recipe content can definitely suck) and it’s hard to improve.

Much more important to me: is the listed cooking time of onions accurate.