The standard we hold ourselves to
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at 3 Hot 8 in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
Standards
How 3 Hot 8 chooses topics, checks claims, names writers, dates articles and handles corrections and commercial links.
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at 3 Hot 8 in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
We treat dates as facts, not decoration. Refreshing a page to look current without changing its substance is a small lie we would rather not tell, so we do not touch the date unless the content genuinely moved.
Yes, some outbound links pay. What they pay for is the hosting bill, not the wording of the assessment sitting next to them.
A request to pull a criticism gets a flat no and a place in our records. Sometimes that request is more revealing than the thing complained about, and it says so in a later piece.
Each piece is signed, and each signature is a link to everything else that person has written. A house byline would let a weak article hide; a real name does not.
Marisol Chandran, Home cook and recipe developer. Marisol spent years cooking for a household on a strict weeknight schedule before she started writing any of it down. She tests every shortcut on a Tuesday, not a Sunday, because that is when it actually needs to work.
Tobias Reyes, Kitchen gear and budget writer. Tobias buys the cheap version of a kitchen tool first and only recommends the expensive one once the cheap one has actually failed him. He tracks his own grocery spending down to the receipt.
Elena Voss, Baking and pantry writer. Elena learned to bake from her mother's handwritten cards and now rewrites them with the failures included, not just the version that worked. She keeps a running list of substitutions that actually hold up.
We do not plan an editorial calendar. Articles appear when a question has come up often enough to be worth answering properly.
Send the page and the problem to info@3hot8.com. Typos are fixed silently. Facts are fixed quickly. Conclusions that turn out to be wrong are corrected in the open, with a note saying what we previously said.