In the comments, sure. I want to hear about substitutions that work, variations that are interesting, and where common substitutions or adjustments fail. (Does adapting this recipe for high altitude work?) An experimental substitution or modification that didn’t work? I’ll likely find that useless, but whatever.

In the rating, it’s just noise. The number should be a guide to answering the question “if I make this item as written, will it be good?” A poor rating based on not following the directions is misleading, same as a good rating based on making changes to a bad recipe.

The author’s feelings do not factor in.