This is absurd. Many of these recipes don’t even have quantities on them. Needs some kind of QA process at least ....
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#22I like the idea of a simple recipe site generally, but I also like reading the user feedback on recipe sites. Is a recipe any good? Are there improvements? There is no way to tell on this site.
IMO it's not worth the hassle to add user feedback, because A) it takes a lot of work from the website admin B) it's usually extremely low (maybe negative) value.
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#23Never thought I'd actually find a webpage that's in Times New Roman soothing. Maybe it's tickling my nostalgia. :-)
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#25Maybe I'm in a minority, because everyone always hoots and hollers about how they hate modern recipe web sites -- and I get it, 6 pages of memories of trips to grandma or whatever is ridiculous -- but I can't see myself ever using a plain-text recipe with no clue as to who the author is and no reason to suspect that they know what they're talking about. At that point I would probably go to SimplyRecipes, where at lea…
> but I can't see myself ever using a plain-text recipe with no clue as to who the author is and no reason to suspect that they know what they're talking about.
Isn't this how recipes - outside of friends and family - have worked forever?
Celebrity chefs are the minority. People normally just Google "air fryer fried okra" and click on one of the first three.
A meandering SEO tale doesn't prove this person cook, it proves they know how to game Google.
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#26This is absurd. Many of these recipes don’t even have quantities on them. Needs some kind of QA process at least ....
You could submit a pull request
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#27Maybe I'm in a minority, because everyone always hoots and hollers about how they hate modern recipe web sites -- and I get it, 6 pages of memories of trips to grandma or whatever is ridiculous -- but I can't see myself ever using a plain-text recipe with no clue as to who the author is and no reason to suspect that they know what they're talking about. At that point I would probably go to SimplyRecipes, where at lea…
yeah video and image would be good supplementary content
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#28Modern blog-y recipe websites do tend to go and on about things I really do not care about (e.g. the worst I've seen is a recipe that included 68 wedding pictures before anything related to the recipe came up [0]), but they also tend to include some helpful hints/tips/pictures of some of the techniques used.
There's a good middle point to be struck between the starkly minimalist based.cooking and the excessively backstory heavy recipe blogs.
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180522221942/https://adventure... (author has since pared back the number of images; see https://adventuresincooking.com/spiced-pear-bundt-cake-with-... )
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#29I also became frustrated with recipes sites and made my own: https://nononsense.recipes - free to browse, or you can make an account to add your own recipes, curate a list of favorites, and leave and read comments.
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#30> Only Based cooking.
Can someone shed light on what "based cooking" is? It's rather tricky to Google for and am unable to figure out what the site's author means by that.