Hi Martin,
We agree that it'd be best if the recipes were edited. But economically, we don't see how that would work without a considerable increase in cost/prices to the end-user community.
To put this in perspective, there are currently over 170,000 recipes on the site, posted by people around the world of varying writing (and cooking) skill levels, and new recipes come online virtually every minute.
It's a free site, operated 24x7, with a ton of free and value-added things that can help you manage your cooking better and share recipes. Currently, while we do have some food writers that create cooking content (e.g., the Food Glossary), we do not employ a large editorial team to test, edit and/or clean up each and every recipe posted -- doing so would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, perhaps millions of dollars, annually, which ultimately would have to be funded somehow.
Instead, like Wikipedia, eBay, and Facebook, we are more of a platform company, letting people add content to it with easy tools. And like Wikipedia, the quality of the content is up to the user community.
You can help improve it -- when you find an error in a recipe, please send a quick email to the person who posted the recipe, or post a comment on it, which will be automatically emailed to the cook that posted it.
Thanks!
PS: It's spelled "recipes". :-)