We shocked the academic experts by writing excellent encyclopedia entries on Wikipedia, so why can't amateurs, if we all work together, create perfect recipes? If enough of us discuss and debate our hamburger knowledge our meat choices, cooking methods, spices, condiments, bread then won't our collective experience create the Platonic burger? That's one of the goals of two websites Foodista.com and the recipe section of Wikia.com that allow users to post new recipes and revise existing ones any way they want, forming a great burger consensus.
But as is not the case with...