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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.
Whenever I see any gif with a recipe come by on my social media, it always seems to follow the same meta-recipe: hyperpalatable ingredient mixed with other hyperpalatable ingredient, the end result being something that has fat, sugar and salt in abundance. I guess that it makes sense, producing the clickbait equivalent for taste (you watch it and think "oh that looks mouthwatering") but I don't recall ever watching t…
Cauliflower Bites 4 Ways (https://www.facebook.com/officialgoodful/videos/137954362544...), Spaghetti Squash 4 Ways (https://www.facebook.com/buzzfeedtasty/videos/17693405533185...), Tornado Zucchini (https://www.facebook.com/buzzfeedtasty/videos/18670178935508...), Garlic-flavored zucchini chips (https://www.facebook.com/buzzfeedtastyjapan/videos/167296607...)
Whenever I see any gif with a recipe come by on my social media, it always seems to follow the same meta-recipe: hyperpalatable ingredient mixed with other hyperpalatable ingredient, the end result being something that has fat, sugar and salt in abundance. I guess that it makes sense, producing the clickbait equivalent for taste (you watch it and think "oh that looks mouthwatering") but I don't recall ever watching t…
I'm not sure they ever claimed that all their recipes were healthy.
Whenever I see any gif with a recipe come by on my social media, it always seems to follow the same meta-recipe: hyperpalatable ingredient mixed with other hyperpalatable ingredient, the end result being something that has fat, sugar and salt in abundance. I guess that it makes sense, producing the clickbait equivalent for taste (you watch it and think "oh that looks mouthwatering") but I don't recall ever watching t…
The problem isn't the nutritional content, it's that these videos are of recipes that just aren't very good to start with. They've nailed the ability to shoot something that looks incredibly tasty, but if you look at the recipes themselves, they lack flavour. Nothing has enough spices added, nothing is allowed to cook long enough, etc. Complexity and culinary sophistication is thrown out the window to make food-making look enticingly, deceptively simple and quick. They're not all bad, of course. You can sometimes make a good meal out of four ingredients.
In other words: The videos are designed to be addictive to watch, not to be realistic recipes.
Tasty is evil. Usually, their receipts waste half of the ingredients by making you overcooking them, or you will cover taste because they want to mix too many things together. They have very good marketers, now they should hire a proper cook.
And in many cases: so. much. cheese. And cheese. And more cheese.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recipes are not copyrightable, and I'd argue that it's actually beneficial to all of us to exchange recipes freely and allow for commercial reuse. Food is an important and quantifiable part of our lives, and improving it is a collective effort. As I support scientific papers "theft" by Scihub, in the same way I support Buzzfeed propagating good food.
That doesn't answer the charge of plagiarism.
I have never heard of buzzfeed tasty before.
Another factor that wasn't mentioned: Plagiarism. They often use Serious Eats recipes without any sort of attribution. Edit: Some context: https://mic.com/articles/163958/the-secret-ingredient-to-buz...
Are were sure Serious Eats didn't "steal" them from someone else?