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It feels melodramatic to call it a problem, but I agree it's very real and very annoying. Sometimes the actual recipe and the instructions will be scattered all
by pipeline_peak 5y ago
It feels melodramatic to call it a problem, but I agree it's very real and very annoying. Sometimes the actual recipe and the instructions will be scattered all around with a blog post in between. https://www.recipetineats.com/thai-green-curry/ https://www.recipetineats.com/thai-green-curry/ This is a perfect example, while the introduction is informative and she doesn't go into great details to describe how she can "whip up an easy peasy tuesday night meal for her hubby". In the middle of cooking, I found myself on my phone, hopping back and forth between the measurements and the actual instructions trying to make sure I don't scorch anything. If I recall, reader mode stripped away important annotations that were embedded in CSS. The nail in the coffin being lots of annotations that I missed because I went the store bought paste route and didn't carefully read to see I was supposed to use 1 tbsp of fish sauce and not 3 like the homemade route.... I admit that was my fault, but it could've been organized easier and platforms enforce that consistency. I'm sure some people don't believe me and I come off as whiny, but I challenge you to follow this lol.....
Not to humiliate myself, but the level of visual boiler plates and JavaScript crap plagued on these run of the mill dynamic pages is akin to a porn site. And of course that's how high traffic sites operate, people want/need money. I look forward to aggregated recipe platforms. They're straight to the point and commentary is segregated. As others have said, recipes are usually not original content anyway.
I think there's a common preferrable layout for recipe pages and it goes:
Recipe > Instructions > Optional Summary