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As someone who cooks a lot, recipes are the worst. As the author points out, it is the obviousness of what the recipe writers are doing that makes it so annoyin
by sl1ck731 6y ago
As someone who cooks a lot, recipes are the worst. As the author points out, it is the obviousness of what the recipe writers are doing that makes it so annoying. I have to acknowledge that I am at least somewhat to blame for this (albeit miniscule in the scale of things) as instead of seeking out concise recipe sites I opt to google in the first place.
- MereInterest 6y agoNot only that, but the recipes themselves are often poor quality. A few years ago, I was looking for recipes for banketstaaf, a Dutch almond pastry usually made around Christmas. I found half a dozen copies of the exact same recipe. Sometimes with unit differences or scaling everything up/down, but the exact same recipe. And that recipe didn't even work, as it resulted in an extremely runny filling. It ended up taking half a dozen attempts to vary the recipe before I got it right, but it was rather frustrating at the start.
- rchaud 6y agoWhy don't you just buy a recipe book? You said so yourself that you know exactly what these sites are doing. They won't give you a concise recipe because it goes against their incentives.
- sl1ck731 6y agoUsually I'm looking for something specific and question whether books will be much help. Eg., I have some salsa, sausage and lentils what can I turn them into type searches.