Full Moon Restaurant is a reference site for kitchen numbers. It answers the measurement and cooking-time questions people actually search for, and it shows the working behind each answer.
What this site covers
Three subjects, chosen because each one turns on a figure that is easy to get wrong: cooking times, where the internal temperature decides doneness rather than the clock; caffeine, measured against the daily ceiling the FDA cites; and kitchen conversions, where a cup of flour and a cup of sugar are two different weights.
How the numbers are worked out
Every figure on this site comes from one source table. Nothing is typed in by hand on a page.
That matters more than it sounds. An earlier version of this site had fourteen articles about espresso caffeine, and eleven of them contradicted each other — one page gave seven different answers to a single question. The fix was structural: put each constant in exactly one place and let every page read from it.
So a shot of espresso is 63 mg of caffeine on every page that mentions it. A cup is 8 fluid ounces on every page. Change the table and every article changes with it.
Where the constants come from
NIST Handbook 44 for the legal definitions of the pound, the ounce and the fluid ounce. The King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart for what a cup of each ingredient weighs — the one chart that publishes its measuring method. The FDA on caffeine, and USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service on safe internal temperatures.
Each article lists its own sources at the foot of the page, so any figure can be checked against the original.
What this site is not
It is not a restaurant, and it does not take bookings. The name is a leftover from an earlier version of the domain. There is no kitchen behind it and no address to visit.
It is also not medical or dietary advice. The caffeine pages quote the ceiling the FDA cites for healthy adults; anyone with a heart condition, anyone pregnant, or anyone on medication should ask a doctor rather than a chart.
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, it is worth telling us, because one wrong constant would be wrong on every page that reads it. Write to the contact page. How corrections are handled is set out in the editorial policy.
Founder of FullMoonRestaurant.com
Nina Dittman runs fullmoonrestaurant.com. Her job on this site is less writing than bookkeeping: keeping one source table correct, and making sure every published page reads its figures from it rather than restating them.
That is the whole editorial method. A conversion or a caffeine figure appears in exactly one place in the code. Articles ask for it; they never carry their own copy. It is why no two pages here disagree about what a cup holds.
Corrections are welcome and are handled under the editorial policy.
