Traffic
Traffic: the recipe is the category page
Almost nobody searches for a brand of flour. They search for a thing they want to bake, a substitution they need to make, or a technical problem they are having with a dough. That means recipes and technique guides are not content marketing in this category, they are the storefront. A recipe that specifies weights, hydration and the exact product it was tested with earns rankings, earns links from other bakers and sells the ingredient at the same time. The second demand pool is dietary: gluten free, dairy free, egg free and low FODMAP baking searches are enormous and are usually answered by sites with nothing to sell.
