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How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by Symbiote »

gcatalfamo wrote: post #35
nols wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may not be in their primary audience, but they're pretty popular. I just looked at their Facebook page and it has 87 million followers.

I honestly wonder how much of those are not USA or UK.

Just going by my 12 friends who've "liked" the page, 4 are British, the rest from elsewhere in Europe. My friends are about 50:50 UK:rest-EU.

I'm surprised either group bothers with the recipes. The ingredients are American, as are the quantities (pounds/ounces), and the oven temperatures in Fahrenheit. I generally can't be bothered dealing with this, and in search results will prefer a British (or Australian) website to avoid needing to convert anything.

Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by acomjean »

Dowwie wrote: post #5

I don't know about all that hype. Serious Eats, the Sporkful, etc are all better.

I'll miss cook's science (http://www.cooksscience.com), now thats its moving to America's test kitchen and thus behind the paywall.

The america's test kitchen show is fun but the cookbooks I really kind exceptional. They tend to explain why your cooking.

Trying to burn through csa veggies, we're using platejoy (YCS15)

Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by iagooar »

matteuan wrote: post #27
dspillett wrote: post #20

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And in many cases: so. much. cheese. And cheese. And more cheese.

Exactly, what's the point of cooking anything more if it will taste of mozzarella and parmesan anyway?

Well, you know what some Italians say, when asked how much parmiggiano should you add to your pasta plate? They'll say: as much as you can afford.

So lots of cheese isn't that much of a problem, in my opinion.

Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by jgreaser »

jafingi wrote: post #34
dboreham wrote: post #6

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Recipes typically aren't copyrightable. Source : https://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html

Recipes are. But the ingredient lists are not. The description are copyrightable as any other written work.

...and it wouldn't hurt anyone to give credit where credit is due.

Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by dboreham »

jafingi wrote: post #34
dboreham wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recipes typically aren't copyrightable. Source : https://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html

Recipes are. But the ingredient lists are not. The description are copyrightable as any other written work.

IANAL but I believe you are wrong. Source :

“[The] recipes’ directions for preparing the assorted dishes fall squarely within the class of subject matter specifically excluded from copyright protection by 17 U.S.C. § 102(b).”

From : http://www.pddoc.com/copyright/publications_v_meredith.htm

Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by wklauss »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #21

I've used some of these recipes as guidelines before. I think the format is extremely useful. 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. A…

A lot of negativity in the comments of this article here in HN but I feel exactly the same. Tasty recipes have tremendous value because they show that cooking can be easy, that most of the time recipes are just guidelines (with the exception of bakery and a handful of dishes) and that it's ok to experiment and mix different things creatively when cooking.

Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by darioush »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #23
vanderZwan wrote: post #14

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…

Guess what's served in most fast food restaurants and available in most grocery stores? Exactly what you described. I'm not sure they ever claimed that all their recipes were healthy.

It's not just fast food restaurants. Ever wonder why the food you make in the kitchen never stands up to (insert your favorite restaurant here)'s food even though you are using the same ingredients as them?

Sure, they have more experience in cooking and you don't have access to the recipe, but you bet there is a whole assortment of salt, butter, sugar, other fats (vegetables may be "sauteed" in bacon grease or duck fat) or MSG.

Interestingly, the fast food industry has to publish nutritional information where "small business" restaurants are not held to this standard.

Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by matteuan »

iagooar wrote: post #43
matteuan wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly, what's the point of cooking anything more if it will taste of mozzarella and parmesan anyway?

Well, you know what some Italians say, when asked how much parmiggiano should you add to your pasta plate? They'll say: as much as you can afford. So lots of cheese isn't that much of a problem, in my opinion.

It's not a problem, but if you fetch fresh veggies and then you add a ton of tasty cheese, you will miss all the delicate flavour of the vegetables. P.S. be careful, I'm italian :)

Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by nkrisc »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #25
vanderZwan wrote: post #14

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…

They've got lots of fairly healthy recipes (as well as plenty of unhealthy ones, but nobody is pretending that brownies are healthy). 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…

The amount of seasoning and flavor development in all these fast recipes seems to be extremely lacking. I agree, they must be terribly bland.
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