Comment by cubefox

Many recipes contain WHILE loops. E.g. while the pan is not full, layer meat sauce, lasagna noodles, and bechamel sauce. FOR loops (do the x process 10 times, or once for everything in a list) are also prefectly natural. Examples for recursion are not as easy to find. This points to recursion itself being harder for us than loops. Understanding loops in recipes doesn't require pedagogical attention.