Sources & Kitchen Evidence

Good credit starts with knowing what kind of material you are quoting.

Dialogue excerpt

An exact passage from stored episode text. A named speaker and exact timestamp require a separate recording check; absence of those annotations must not be filled by inference.

Scene summary

A description of what happens, not words spoken by Larry or another character.

Unreviewed episode text

Existing text whose dialogue-versus-summary status has not yet been checked. Consult the recording before quoting it as speech.

Editorial kitchen rule

Written Larry-style guidance, not claimed verbatim episode dialogue.

Written recipe

Written recipe guidance, not a measured Test Kitchen result. Photos may illustrate the dish; they do not establish that a batch was tested. Only recorded experiments in the Test Kitchen count as measured comparisons.

Researched fact

A factual claim with an identifiable source, qualified where origins or associations are disputed. Research-based restaurant pages are not personal visit reports.

Measured kitchen result

An actually recorded experiment, with date, equipment, method and readings. Missing readings stay missing. A proposed test is not a result.