Using the original source language can certainly help. But even then most of the blog recipes you find are going to have the same problem with being very simpli

Using the original source language can certainly help. But even then most of the blog recipes you find are going to have the same problem with being very simplified. A problem with Google Translate specifically is that it’s often not great at translating ingredients. For instance it will translate daun salam as bay leaf, but there’s something like 6 different types of bay leaf, and they’re not at all similar. If a recipe calls for daun salam it probably wants you to use Indonesian bay leaf, but if you didn’t already know that distinction you’d end up with something weird. Another example would be bawang putih, which translates literally to white onion, but means garlic. Google translate has learnt this meaning sometime recently, but it used to give the literal incorrect translation.