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GitHub has torrent magnet links to several good datasets of recipes that are scraped and processed to just contain recipes only in a simple SQLite format. The

by chaxor 3y ago

GitHub has torrent magnet links to several good datasets of recipes that are scraped and processed to just contain recipes only in a simple SQLite format. The best recipes come from seeding those torrent / IPFS files.

akiselev 3y ago
Don't leave us hanging! That's too generic of a description to search for.
Larrikin 3y ago
This doesn't actually feel like a good resource without knowing how it is sourced. In my experience, the vast majority of recipes (especially those available for free on the internet) will produce something edible, maybe even decent, but are almost never great. If you cook long enough you can eyeball a new recipe and tell whether it's shit, but it's far much harder to tell the difference between mediocre and great without actually making the food. The superfluous "my grandma used to make this before the war in the old country for my mom growing up" crap adds nothing to a mediocre recipe, but learning that the author is a chef in an actual restaurant, went to culinary school, is part of a collective that rigorously test multiple versions of a recipe before publishing, or even learning that the grandma in the old country was a professional chef, really helps weed out mediocre recipes from actually great ones. There are a select few places online that I trust and have been getting more of the well reviewed actual cookbooks. New recipes from new places I usually try to find something similar from somewhere trusted or just go in with the expectation it won't actually be good. It's nice being surprised by how great a new source is, but usually it's something I'll never make again.
- bee_rider 3y ago
  I’ve always assumed that fluff was all made up anyway. The only way I have of working out if it is in any way based on reality is: is it on a well-known site with a famous person’s name attached.

by chaxor 3y ago

akiselev 3y ago

Don't leave us hanging! That's too generic of a description to search for.

Larrikin 3y ago

This doesn't actually feel like a good resource without knowing how it is sourced. In my experience, the vast majority of recipes (especially those available for free on the internet) will produce something edible, maybe even decent, but are almost never great. If you cook long enough you can eyeball a new recipe and tell whether it's shit, but it's far much harder to tell the difference between mediocre and great without actually making the food. The superfluous "my grandma used to make this before the war in the old country for my mom growing up" crap adds nothing to a mediocre recipe, but learning that the author is a chef in an actual restaurant, went to culinary school, is part of a collective that rigorously test multiple versions of a recipe before publishing, or even learning that the grandma in the old country was a professional chef, really helps weed out mediocre recipes from actually great ones. There are a select few places online that I trust and have been getting more of the well reviewed actual cookbooks. New recipes from new places I usually try to find something similar from somewhere trusted or just go in with the expectation it won't actually be good. It's nice being surprised by how great a new source is, but usually it's something I'll never make again.

bee_rider 3y ago
I’ve always assumed that fluff was all made up anyway. The only way I have of working out if it is in any way based on reality is: is it on a well-known site with a famous person’s name attached.