Recipe Websites

[Scabutz]

What is it with modern recipe sites. I can cook, well, I like to look for different things to make and like a recipe for ideas on ingredients and quantities. I have phases of liking different things. Currently in a Mexican and Mediterranean phase.

Google stuff and you go to a result and for a kick off there are so many adverts trying to find the content is like decoding the Enigma machine. Then you get a load of gumfp about the recipe. Usually combined with some wkers life story and their "inspiration" behind it. Eventually you find the recipe and often it makes no sense, or worse it's American, WTF is a cup and how can it define weight and volume? Then you see the method and realise this tt has no clue what they are on about.

Bonus points when they have a video and you sit there wincing at the knife skills wondering how they still have all their fingers.

BBC good food is fine, but it doesn't have everything.

Anyone got some good plain recipe resources without all this crap?

[M5-911]

Just buy some good books preferably written by chefs coming from the country you are trying to experience their food culture.

[Riley Blue]

Either of these two

https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes

but especially this though I have some of their books

https://www.hairybikers.com/recipes

If you can find it, Kenny's Cajun Creole Cookbook could be worth a look.

[mrsshpub]

I quite like these (and the Hairy Bikers, of course):

https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/

https://www.olivemagazine.com/

[M5-911]

Check Ottolenghi cook books. Simple and flavoursome.

[Cardiff_Exile]

The above are all good, I like https://www.jocooks.com as allows you to change portion and metric / imperial, skip the blub and jump to recipe

[SaulGoodman]

I was recommended an app recently called My Recipe Box. When you see something you like you can put the url in there and it saves it without all the guff. You can edit down as well if it's not perfect. Only just started using it but looks like a good way or storing web recipes without all the stories.

Great British Chefs is a decent site.

[sc0tt]

Copy the link and paste into chat GPT and ask for the recipe. Saves reading the authors life story beforehand.

I like this website.


https://www.recipetineats.com/

[Greshamst]

I feel your pain, so frustrating. Especially when you’re halfway through cooking, need to double check something in the ingredients and the page reloads back to the beginning of War & Peace on why pancakes remind them of a family holiday in 1983 and the following history since that day.

I think it’s something to do with the advertising, time spent on page, scrolls etc that makes them all do this.

[Truckosaurus]

Greshamst said:

I think it’s something to do with the advertising, time spent on page, scrolls etc that makes them all do this.

It's a self fulfilling prophecy, new recipes have to have a load of chunter to get picked up by the Google algorithm and then once it makes it towards the top of the results more people click on it making it the most popular result.

Worst is when you scroll through to the actual recipe and find it is in American units (sticks of butter and cups of everything else).

I find that searching for '<recipe> metric' usually brings up some dull but usable results from the BBC Good Food etc.

[M5-911]

As mention above, "Great British Chefs" or "Great Italian Chefs" websites are very well designed.

"Chefsteps" is good as well but you have to pay I believe.


Still, I prefer books. Have a look at Phaidon cookery books. Very well written (I have a lot of them).

[boxst]

I just put the ingredients in google and look at the websites that come up.

However, bbcgoodfood and Hairy Bikers are good if I’m looking for inspiration.

[craigjm]

My go to place for inspiration is The Spruce Eats

https://www.thespruceeats.com/