Maybe if they didn’t make you go through their fucking blog to try and find the actual recipe, dodging ads the whole time.
Bon Appetit used to have an incredible recipe site back in the he day, but it slowly became shittified.
I have Julia Childs’ French cookbook set and that is just an amazing resource. I definitely recommend that to anyone who wants to see how shit was done back in the day before everything came in a can or a mix. Plus the French really knew how to make a delicious dish.
I started printing out the Bon Appetit recipes that I liked, when that started going to shit, and even those were difficult to frame in a useable way. But at least with the printouts, I don’t have to search through the slop to find what I want.
Still annoying to look for something knew.
For all you beginners out there, or new to the recipe saving world… TAKE NOTES ON YOUR RECIPES! You WILL forget what you liked/didn’t like, or changes that worked/didn’t work.
Add “cooked.wiki/” (without the “”) to the beginning of any recipe URL, and it will strip away everything but a column with the ingredients and a column with the recipe.
You don’t need an account, but they have some other bonus features if you do.
Makes me want to make a recipe hosting site with very minimal ads to pay for hosting costs. Let people see the damn recipe.
Googling up recepies was dead already even with just the non-AI-slop out there. I just started looking up recepies from a few people I trust. No novels, no Instagram bullshit images.
Agreed even before AI it was hard to find a recipe from an actual known chef anymore unless you specifically search for a known one, it’s all blogs that won’t let you see the recipe until you turn your ad blocker off.
Recipe “developers”? I mean ok if you’re a gourmet chef but most of us just want to look up how to cook something. That info is usually not new or special. Cookbooks were always a thing.
…and nothing of value was lost.
