Community Guidelines

Last updated 20 October 2026

Scrandella is for photographs of food that people cooked themselves. These guidelines say what belongs here, what does not, and what happens when someone posts something that does not. They are written so that the same post gets the same answer whoever reviews it.

What Scrandella is for

Scrandella is a place to show food you cooked. Home kitchens rather than restaurant marketing, your own plate rather than a stock photo. Everything below follows from that.

These rules cover everything you put on Scrandella: photos, dish names, captions, recipes, comments, direct messages, your username, your avatar and your bio.

They apply to you wherever you are. If something here conflicts with the law where you live, the stricter of the two applies.

Food comes first

Every post must be a photograph of food or drink. That is the one rule the whole app rests on.

This belongs here

• A dish you cooked, however it turned out
• Something you baked, preserved, fermented or grew and then cooked
• A work in progress: dough proving, a sauce reducing, a bad first attempt
• A drink you made
• A close-up of an ingredient, if the post is about cooking with it

This does not

• Selfies, pets, scenery, cars, memes, screenshots, artwork
• A photo of food you did not make and are not presenting as someone else's (a restaurant dish you ate is fine if you say so; a stock photo passed off as your cooking is not)
• An empty plate, a receipt, a menu, a supermarket shelf
• A photo with no food in it at all, whatever the caption says

A post that is not food gets removed. It is not treated as a serious offence on a first occasion, because people misunderstand what the app is for. Repeatedly posting things that are not food is treated as spam.

If your face or your kitchen appears in the frame alongside the food, that is fine. The test is whether the food is the subject.

Nudity and sexual content

Scrandella does not allow sexual content of any kind. There is no mature audience setting and there is no exception for art, humour or protest.

Removed, with no warning

• Visible genitals, anuses, or female nipples
• Sexual acts, simulated or real
• Close-up images of bodies presented sexually, with or without food involved
• Food arranged to depict genitals or sexual acts
• Sexualised captions, comments or messages about another person's body

Removed and reported to the authorities

Any sexual content involving a minor. This results in an immediate permanent ban, preservation of the account data, and a report to the relevant authorities. There is no appeal.

Allowed

• A person in ordinary clothing who happens to be in the photo
• Bare arms, shoulders, legs or a bare chest where it is incidental, for example cooking on a hot day
• Any cut of meat, offal or whole animal, however it looks

The automated check

Every photo is scored by an automated content check before it appears. A photo above the threshold is blocked outright. A borderline photo is held and looked at by a person before it is published or refused. A photo that cannot be checked is held rather than published, so a delay does not mean anything is wrong with your dish.

Automated checks make mistakes in both directions. If yours was wrongly refused, appeal and it will be looked at by a person.

Harassment, bullying and hate

People post food they made, which means they are showing you something they are not sure about. Treat them accordingly.

Harassment

• Repeatedly contacting someone who has asked you to stop, or after they have blocked you and you have made a new account
• Sexual advances in comments or messages that are unwelcome, including comments about someone's body
• Threatening someone, their family, or their home or workplace
• Posting or threatening to post someone's address, workplace, phone number, or other private details
• Encouraging other people to pile onto someone

Degrading comments

Disliking a dish is not harassment. "Not for me" and "that looks burnt" are opinions about food and are allowed. The line is where the comment stops being about the food.

Hate speech

Attacking a person or group because of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or serious illness is not allowed. This includes:

• Slurs, including ones reclaimed by a group if you are not in it
• Claiming a group is inferior, criminal, or less than human
• Mocking a cuisine as a way of attacking the people it belongs to
• Calling for a group to be excluded, deported or harmed

Discussing a cuisine, criticising a religious dietary practice, or arguing about authenticity is not hate speech. Using those subjects as cover for attacking people is.

Hate speech is removed and the account is suspended on a first occasion, not warned.

Danger, violence and illegal goods

Butchery and animals

Scrandella is a cooking app and cooking involves animals. Raw meat, whole fish, offal, a whole roast animal, and home butchery are all allowed, including when they are bloody.

What is not allowed is cruelty: an animal being hurt or killed for the camera rather than for food, or content that treats an animal's suffering as the entertainment. Slaughter carried out as part of preparing food, including religious slaughter, is allowed.

Violence against people

No images of injured, dying or dead people, and no threats of violence. This includes a photo of your own serious kitchen injury. A cut finger with a plaster on it is fine. An open wound is not.

Unsafe food advice

Recipes carry risk, and most risk is yours to take. We remove instructions that are likely to seriously harm whoever follows them:

• Preserving, canning or fermenting methods that create a real botulism risk, presented as safe
• Foraging posts identifying a poisonous species as edible
• Recipes using substances that are not food, for example industrial chemicals or non-food-grade materials
• Advice framed as a cure for a disease

We do not remove posts simply for being unhealthy, undercooked by someone else's standards, or outside food safety orthodoxy. Steak tartare, raw milk cheese, rare burgers and very spicy food all stay.

Regulated and illegal goods

• No selling or arranging the sale of drugs, prescription medicines, weapons, or other regulated goods
• Alcohol and cannabis cooking are allowed where legal for you, as food content, not as a sale
• No instructions for making weapons or explosives

Dangerous challenges

No content promoting eating challenges likely to cause serious injury, for example consuming large quantities of a substance that is unsafe in quantity.

Spam, scams and fake accounts

Spam

• Posting the same photo repeatedly, or flooding the feed
• Comments that exist to advertise something, repeated across many posts
• Automated posting, bulk following, or buying followers and likes
• Links to unrelated sites in captions or comments
• Using dish names or captions to hide keywords unrelated to the food

Scams

• Asking people for money, gift cards or payment details
• Offering something and not delivering it
• Links to phishing sites or malware
• Pretending to be Scrandella, for example claiming an account has a problem and asking for a password

Scrandella will never ask you for your password, in a message or anywhere else.

Impersonation

You may not present yourself as someone you are not. This includes using another person's name and photo as your own, running an account that appears to be an official account of a business or public figure without being authorised, or copying another Scrandella user's name, avatar and posts.

Fan accounts, parody and commentary accounts are allowed when they say so clearly in the username or bio. A parody account that could reasonably be mistaken for the real thing is impersonation.

Multiple accounts

More than one account is fine, for example a personal one and one for a baking project. Using additional accounts to get around a block, a suspension or a ban is not, and results in all of your accounts being banned.

Credit

If you cooked someone else's recipe, cook it and post it. Nobody owns a dish. If you copied the recipe text itself from a named source, say where it came from. Reposting another person's photograph as if you took it is not allowed.

Who can use Scrandella, and who appears in your photos

Minimum age

You must be at least 13 to have a Scrandella account, and older where the law where you live requires it. Accounts we believe belong to someone under 13 are removed.

If you think an account belongs to a child, report it and choose "They may be under 13". Reports like this are looked at before other reports.

Children in photos

Children can appear in food photos. A child baking with you, or eating what you cooked, is welcome. What is not allowed:

• Any sexualised depiction of a child, which is dealt with under the nudity section above
• Photos of children where the child, rather than the food, is the subject
• Any contact with a child you do not know, in comments or messages

Other people

• Do not post photos of identifiable people who did not agree to it, where the photo would embarrass them
• Do not post anyone's address, phone number, email, workplace, or other private details, including your own household members
• Do not post screenshots of private messages in order to target someone

Your account

• Use an account that is yours. Do not buy, sell or share accounts
• Keep your password to yourself
• You are responsible for what is posted from your account

Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time from Settings. Deletion removes your posts, comments, likes, messages and photos. It cannot be undone.

Food and health

A food app reaches people who have a difficult relationship with eating. This section exists because of that.

Calories

Adding a calorie figure to a post is optional. Viewing them is optional too: you can turn calorie display off in Settings and you will not see the figure on anyone's post.

Calorie figures on Scrandella are what the person who cooked the dish typed in. They are not verified, not calculated, and should not be relied on for anything medical.

Not allowed

• Content promoting starvation, purging, or extreme restriction as a way to lose weight
• Comparing bodies, or ranking them, in posts or comments
• Unsolicited comments on another person's weight or eating, including comments meant kindly
• Presenting a very low intake as a target to aim for
• Promoting a diet as a treatment for a disease

Allowed

• Any diet you actually follow, including fasting, keto, raw, vegan, halal, kosher, low FODMAP and medically prescribed diets
• Discussing your own health in your own caption
• Food that is unapologetically rich, fried or sweet

Comments about someone's body

"That looks amazing" is about the food. "You must be putting on weight eating that" is about the person, and is removed on report. This applies whether the comment is an insult or a compliment.

If you are struggling

If scrolling food content is making things harder rather than better, you can turn calorie display off, mute or block accounts, or take a break. If you need support with eating, the National Alliance for Eating Disorders operates a helpline staffed by clinicians, and in the UK, Beat runs a helpline and online support.

How we enforce these rules

Most breaches are a misunderstanding of what the app is for, so most enforcement starts small. Some do not get that benefit, and those are named below.

The ladder

A breach drops off your record after 12 months.

Straight to a ban, with no steps

• Sexual content involving a minor
• Credible threats of violence against a person
• Hate speech, which suspends on a first occasion and bans on a second
• Using new accounts to get around a ban

What a ban means

Your posts stop being visible, you cannot post again, and making another account is itself a breach. Your data is kept for as long as we are required to keep it and then deleted.

Reporting

Report a post from the "..." menu on it. Report an account from the "..." menu on their profile. Reports are anonymous: the person reported is never told who reported them.

Reports involving a child's safety, sexual content, or a threat of violence are looked at before everything else. Reports on everything else are looked at in the order they arrive. If several people report the same post it is hidden while it is looked at.

You can also block an account, which hides them from you entirely and removes any follow between you. Blocking is separate from reporting and needs no reason.

Appeals

If something of yours was removed or your account was actioned, you can appeal through the Help page in the app. Say what was removed and why you think the decision was wrong. An appeal is looked at by a person, not by the automated check that may have made the original decision.

Automated checks get things wrong, particularly on photographs of meat, and appeals on those are usually upheld.

Contact

Use the Help page in the app. It creates a conversation you can reply to and keeps the history, which an email thread does not. You can also write to hello@scrandella.com.

Changes

We will update these guidelines as the app grows and as we find cases they do not cover. Material changes will be announced in the app.