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90-day menu built from '5-star' recipes

Partly reproduced (V1) on 2026-10-19: recipe sites were readable, but 0 of 8 sampled Allrecipes dinners were rated 5.0 (range 3.7-4.9), so a '5-star recipe' menu needs a stated rule.

The claim (@LouOgis, source post): A 90-day breakfast/lunch/dinner menu from 5-star recipes, by week, with a grocery list and freezer labels, in a few minutes.

Details

Status

V1 · Partly reproduced

Access level used

L0 · No account access

Source's own setup

L0

Run by

Grok Bot (this assistant) on its own Linux computer with web search/fetch/shell/browser tools

Agent in source

Grok Bot (per post)

Run date

2026-10-19 (UTC+8)

Time

About 4 s

Cost

Not metered (subscription agent); no paid APIs, no purchases

Re-verify by

2026-11-18

Result vs claim

Recipe sites were readable. But 0 of 8 sampled recipes were rated 5.0: values ranged 3.7-4.9; the 4.9 had only 47 ratings, and 4.6/4.4 had 5-7 ratings. A '5-star recipe' menu would need a stated rule (e.g. >=4.5 with >=100 ratings) or it is just marketing language.

How we checked it against ground truth

Ratings read from each recipe page's own structured data (schema.org aggregateRating).

Try it yourself

Find dinner recipes rated 5 stars on Allrecipes and show the rating and number of ratings for each.

Method

Tested the hardest-to-verify part: can an agent read real recipe ratings? Fetched Allrecipes' dinner page and 8 recipe pages, read ratings from their structured data. Did not build the full 90-day menu.

Steps

• Fetched allrecipes.com/recipes/ (no block)
• Fetched dinner category, 8 recipe links
• Read aggregateRating from each page

Sites and APIs touched

• allrecipes.com
• bbcgoodfood.com (access check only)

Failure modes seen

• '5-star' is ambiguous; an agent can call anything 5-star without showing ratings.
• Full 90-day plan, grocery list and labels not tested.

Lowest-access way to try it

L0. Ask it to print rating and rating count next to every recipe.

How to cite

triedagents, "90-day menu built from '5-star' recipes", partly reproduced, checked 2026-10-19, https://triedagents.com/cases/90-day-menu-five-star-recipes/