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Based Cooking
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#42Maybe 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 pr…
This is why most people's cooking sucks.
It's not that recipes with meandering SEO tales necessarily have better recipes. It's that recipes without any explanation usually suck. If you pick something with a meandering SEO tale, it _might_ not be terrible. Possibly not terrible is better than definitely terrible.
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#43> 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.
The word "based" in slang has come to mean "not caring what others think", usually applied to being outrageous, controversial, or in some cases just outright offensive. So based cooking would be "I cook what I want". I offer up, as an example, "sketti": https://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Honey-Boo-Boo-Skett... as "based" cooking.
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#44Maybe 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 pr…
Nope, people got recipes from books and magazines, which were considered reliable gatekeepers.
Looking back at some of the gelatin casseroles of the 60s, of course, casts doubt on some of that reliability.
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#45What is is this? 1994?
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#46Maybe 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
Yeah, sometimes at least basic images are incredibly helpful. First time I tried to make mac and cheese from scratch I struggled finding decent instructions on how to make the roux as I had never made or seen a roux before. Eventually I kinda figured it out after piecing together pictures from like 4-5 recipe sites.
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#47> 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.
"Based" is a specific online subculture slang for something wholly positive, the opposite of "cringe".
more like "unapologetic" I think? also I think somewhat coopted by right wing folks more recently.
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#48This is excellent! Love the basic HTML look as well.
Love the project, will follow along!
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#49In the last few years I’ve learnt that there really is nothing better than a good cook book. Vibrant colors, techniques, stories - these can all really add to your experience if their presence is not solely for the purpose of including additional ads. I’ve also found that the recipe alone is truly not enough - the techniques and background are incredibly important !
Any suggestions for a good cook book?
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 pr…
Nope, people got recipes from books and magazines, which were considered reliable gatekeepers. Looking back at some of the gelatin casseroles of the 60s, of course, casts doubt on some of that reliability.
> Nope, people got recipes from books and magazines, which were considered reliable gatekeepers.
You're making my point - they were gatekeepers because they were discoverable and promoted. That's what gave them credibility. Just as showing in search results does now.
People didn't pick cookbooks because they had the most aimless stories that hid the actual recipe.