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I've used some of these recipes as guidelines before. I think the format is extremely useful. Most traditional recipes go into too much details, use unnecessar
by miguelrochefort 9y ago
I've used some of these recipes as guidelines before. I think the format is extremely useful.
Most traditional recipes go into too much details, use unnecessarily complicated measurements and ratios, and aren't easy to visually memorize. These gifs or short clips are easy to skim through, easy to memorize and very accessible.
Are they the healthiest, most traditional or best tasting recipes out there? Probably not. Are they a great way to get people to start cooking? Absolutely.
- wklauss 9y agoA lot of negativity in the comments of this article here in HN but I feel exactly the same. Tasty recipes have tremendous value because they show that cooking can be easy, that most of the time recipes are just guidelines (with the exception of bakery and a handful of dishes) and that it's ok to experiment and mix different things creatively when cooking.
- vanderZwan 9y agoNobody is deriding the format. I think the clichés deserve to be made fun of it a teensy bit[0], but otherwise I agree it's a wonderful innovation, making good use of the possibilities modern media provide. Kinda like explorable explanations[1]. But the medium isn't being criticised, it's the way it is used. And sure, even that can be explained in the context of everything being optimised for drawing attention these days, but that doesn't make it right. There is nothing about video-based recipes that fundamentally goes against healthy recipes. [0] https://gfycat.com/HonorableThankfulHeron https://gfycat.com/HonorableThankfulHeron [1] http://explorabl.es/ http://explorabl.es/