The Person Behind the Data

I'm a data engineer by trade — I spend my days building pipelines, writing queries, and staring at dashboards. But when I get home, I cook.

Sauce of Truth started from a frustration I couldn't shake. I'd Google something simple like “can I freeze butter” and get ten articles that all said different things, none of them citing a source. As someone who works with data all day, that drove me a little crazy.

So I started doing what I do at work: pulling the actual numbers. USDA FoodData Central for nutrition. PubMed and food science journals for health claims. And my own kitchen for everything else — because a paper that says “freezing preserves texture” doesn't mean much until you've thawed the thing and tasted it yourself.

I'm not a chef. I'm not a nutritionist. I'm a home cook who got tired of food advice that sounds confident but can't point to a single source. Every article on this site traces its claims to verifiable data — and if I can't verify something, it doesn't get published.

The goal isn't to make you a better cook. It's to make you a more skeptical one.