About Potato Recipes Farm

The things we got wrong

This is not a page about what we do right. It’s a log of what we got wrong, in order, with what we did about each. Every recipe here was tested at least twice—once by me, once by someone who isn’t a chef. But even then, mistakes slipped through.

This page lists the ones that mattered.

A site that publishes its own corrections is rare. The ones that do are usually new or small. We’re neither. That means the mistakes here were real, not just honest.

And the fixes were real too: no half-measures, no ‘we’ll get it next time.’ If something failed, it was scrapped or rewritten. That’s how you know the rest is worth trusting.

Three we had to fix

These are the three biggest failures we found after launch. The first was a recipe that worked in my kitchen but not in others. The second was a method that sounded good on paper but fell apart under real conditions.

The third was a page that should never have gone live at all. Each cost time, trust, or both. None were fixed by ‘trying harder.’

What those three changed

These three mistakes changed how we work. The first taught us to test every recipe in at least two kitchens. The second made us write methods that survive bad tools or rushed hands. The third forced us to add a ‘last checked’ date to every page.

The people behind this

This is Bruno Tanaka, the founder and editor. He’s the one who wrote the recipes, burnt the potatoes, and then rewrote them when they didn’t work. The log above is how you meet him—not as a chef, but as someone who makes mistakes and fixes them.

That’s the kind of person who keeps a list like this: someone who’d rather admit a failure than let it stay wrong.

Keeping this log is uncomfortable. It means owning up to things that could have been hidden. But it’s also the only way to prove the rest is real.

If we’re going to ask readers to trust our recipes, we have to show them where we’ve already failed—and how we fixed it.

The smallest mistake I’ll admit? The first time I tried making potato chips at home, I used the wrong cut. The slices were too thick, and they came out greasy instead of crispy. I threw them away and tried again the next day.

That’s the kind of failure no one sees—just me, a bag of soggy potatoes, and a lesson learned.

If you find something wrong here, don’t email. Go to the contact page and tell us. We’ll fix it, add it to the log, and make sure it doesn’t happen again.

There will be a next one

This list isn’t finished. Every time we find a mistake—big or small—it goes here. If you spot one before we do, the contact page is the right place to tell us. We’ll update the log, rewrite what’s wrong, and keep going.