The Checked Kitchen

A reference for celiac kitchens

1,000 gluten-free recipes, every ingredient checked.

Most gluten-free cookbooks tell you what to avoid once, at the front, and then write “flour” for the next three hundred pages. This one names the check on the line where you need it — at the moment you reach for the packet.

1,032Recipes
12Categories
53Sub-sections
6Reference chapters

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Safe to Eat — cover

The problem this book solves


Gluten-free cooking is not a shortage of recipes. It is a shortage of certainty at the exact second you are holding a jar.

You already know bread has gluten. Nobody needs a book for that. What catches people is baking powder with wheat starch, soy sauce that is brewed with wheat, the stock cube, the malt in the vinegar, the “natural flavoring” on a spice blend. These are the ingredients that end up in a recipe unremarked, because the author assumed you would remember a note from page four.

This book does not assume that. Every processed ingredient in every recipe carries its own qualification, on its own line, in the list you are actually reading while you cook.

How it was checked


An ingredient-by-ingredient pass across the whole book.

Not a spell-check. Every recipe was read line by line and every processed ingredient was either qualified or corrected. The counts below come from that audit — they are counted, not estimated.

The free starter kit uses the same counts, so you can see the method before you buy anything.

126 recipes

Baking powder

Certified gluten-free. Wheat starch is a common filler.

117 recipes

Broth & stock

Cubes and concentrates are a frequent hiding place.

65 recipes

Soy sauce

Conventionally brewed with wheat. Tamari is the swap.

Never qualified

Cider vinegar

Naturally gluten-free. Only malt vinegar is a problem.

Inside the book


Six chapters, then a thousand recipes.

  • 1Where to Start The first week, and what actually changes.
  • 2Setting Up the Kitchen Shared toasters, pans, pasta water, and what has to be separate.
  • 3Reading the Label US, UK and EU rules — and why “contains: wheat” is not a gluten check.
  • 4Flours and Binders What each flour does, and how blends behave.
  • 5The Ingredients That Need Checking The reference chapter, laid out in supermarket order.
  • 6Eating Out and Traveling The questions that decide whether a meal is safe.

Then 1,032 recipes across twelve categories

Breakfast & Brunch 116 Main Meals 268 Snacks & Light Bites 94 Desserts & Sweets 158 Baking 57 Beverages 34 World Cuisines 86 Special Diets 56 Meal Prep & Family 34 Holiday 39 Fermented & Pickled 31 Pantry Staples 59

Every recipe gives yield and timings, both metric and US measurements, and a full alphabetical index at the back.

Look inside


A recipe page
A recipe page. The check sits on the ingredient line, not in a footnote.
The reference chapter
Chapter 5, in supermarket order, with the count from this book.
A category divider
Twelve categories, each with its own sub-sections.
Your First Gluten-Free Week

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Your first gluten-free week, already decided.

Seven days of meals, a shopping list arranged the way a shop is arranged, and a card for restaurants. Forty pages, drawn from the same book — so you can judge the method before you buy it.

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Before you buy


Honest answers

Does this book have photographs of the food?

No. It is illustrated, not photographed. A photo next to a recipe makes an implicit promise about how yours will look, and this book is a reference you cook from, not a book you look at. That decision is also why it costs $9.99 instead of $29.

Is it certified gluten-free?

No, and no cookbook can be. Certification marks such as the Crossed Grain or GFCO apply to food products made in audited facilities — they are not issued to books. Anyone showing one on a cookbook cover is misusing it. What this book does is tell you which products in your kitchen need to carry that mark.

Can I trust it if it was not written by a doctor?

It is a cookbook, not medical advice, and it says so plainly. It does not diagnose, treat or replace your dietitian. What it claims is narrower and checkable: every processed ingredient is qualified on its own line, and the reference chapter explains what each check is for.

Metric or US measurements?

Both, in every recipe, on every line. 240 ml (1 cup), 120 g (4.2 oz). No conversion table at the back to flip to.

What format do I get?

EPUB and PDF. The EPUB reflows on a Kindle, phone or tablet; the PDF is laid out for reading on a larger screen or printing the pages you use most.

Is there a paperback?

No. At 1,690 pages it is past the limit any print-on-demand service will bind, and splitting a reference book into volumes makes the index useless. It is a digital book by design.

What if it is not for me?

Read the free forty-page starter kit first. It is drawn from the same book and written the same way — if it is not what you want, the book will not be either, and you will have spent nothing.