Using reporting guidelines to improve the reproducibility of cooking Christmas tree meringues: the "People tasting trees" cluster-randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To test whether improving a Christmas tree meringue recipe using reporting guidelines yields more appealing and sweeter meringues.

Design

A prospective, superiority, single-blind, cluster-randomised (1:1) controlled trial.

Setting

A public participatory event in a large cultural facility in France.

Participants

Budding chefs with basic culinary skills, possessing the utensils necessary for baking Christmas tree meringues, and not having burned pasta in the past month (for safety reasons). Bunding chefs represent the cluster and meringue the unit.

Interventions

Each budding chef was randomised to a standard recipe for making Christmas tree meringues or to the same recipe written in consultation with a professional baker using the TIDieR checkli

SUBMITTER: Vinatier C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12673745 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature