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Re: Based Cooking

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Post by [deleted] »

reedjosh wrote: post #117
hardwaregeek wrote: post #111

Some of these recipes seem decent if you're already somewhat experienced and have developed cook's intuition. Otherwise they're way too vague. For instance, the chicken parm recipe: - There should be a photo of how to slice the chicken breast. Saying "through their width" isn't good enough. I had to explain what "lengthwise" was once because my friend cut all the vegetables the exact opposite of it. - Pound with what…

No website can fully replace life experience. Either way, the simplicity of presentation here transcends any such criticism which misses the point entirely.

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Re: Based Cooking

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Post by [deleted] »

reedjosh wrote: post #117
hardwaregeek wrote: post #111

Some of these recipes seem decent if you're already somewhat experienced and have developed cook's intuition. Otherwise they're way too vague. For instance, the chicken parm recipe: - There should be a photo of how to slice the chicken breast. Saying "through their width" isn't good enough. I had to explain what "lengthwise" was once because my friend cut all the vegetables the exact opposite of it. - Pound with what…

No website can fully replace life experience. Either way, the simplicity of presentation here transcends any such criticism which misses the point entirely.

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Re: Based Cooking

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Post by SilverRed »

tenaciousDaniel wrote: post #12

I was just looking up some recipes the other day and my goodness, does this website feel like a breath of fresh air. Today's web just utterly buries even the simplest content underneath a mountain of shit, whether it's ads or fancy banners or a long-winded speech about god-knows-what before getting to the point. Kudos to whoever made this.

The BBC has a good recipes website without the bloat.

Re: Based Cooking

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_6hmp wrote: post #47
solarkraft wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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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Re: Based Cooking

#125

Post by SilverRed »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #77

Am I the only one who thinks that this concept is perfectly good, and all the things the site doesn't have are just great further development of the idea? What's wrong with a "wikipedia for recipes"? I would LOVE that. All the complaints about the quality of the recipes or the lack of more in-depth explaination of each one, some kind of voting/reputation system for the recipes and for the submitters and the voters, Y…

>What's wrong with a "wikipedia for recipes"?

Can you imagine the state of the site after 2 power users have a holy war over whether the recipe is meant to have salt in it or not.

Cooking is not objective so it would be impossible to properly collaborate or decide if an edit made the recipe better or worse.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by Lich »

Niksko wrote: post #54

This website actually proves why everyone's favourite punching bag, the picture heavy SEO laden, anecdote about my mother's neighbors rabbi style cooking blogs exist. These recipes would be totally un-followable unless you've made them before, especially without pictures. Some of them are terrible recipes, particularly the "curry". And maybe there are good reasons for them being very basic (e.g. they're traditional o…

Punching bag for a reason. Terrible sites especially on mobile, have to scroll through what feels like an infinite amount of pictures and “fluff” text about how this recipe reminds the author about a warm childhood memory, which you can’t even read cause ads are popping up all over the place. The recent “jump to recipe” buttons don’t help. You jump to the recipe, but some late loading ad just pushes the recipe out of view or some ad hovers right over it.

I just don’t bother with these kinds of sites anymore. Even when I was inexperienced with cooking, I felt none of the stories or pictures (often delicately staged much like commercial photoshoot) helped me with making the recipe.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by saagarjha »

SilverRed wrote: post #120
opan wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"based and redpilled" is quite literally the opposite of "cringe and bluepilled" in common usage. Based definitely is not a synonym for cringe. It often shows approval of some sort, or being impressed when someone acts like a "mad lad". I'm sure interpretations differ, but yours seemed a bit too far off the mark.

I think OP means that things described as based tend to be cringe for OP.

That is probably true, but it’s still pretty clearly the opposite of “cringe” in meaning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAwJke4UWGI.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by cratermoon »

phlakaton wrote: post #86
cratermoon wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend of mine who frequents recipe sites pointed out to me once how often the comments are some variation of "I made this except I didn't have any X, Y, or Z so I used M, N, and O", which is great for them but it doesn't really tell you if the recipe, as written, is any good.

But is great for exploring the “solution space” of what variants people have tried and preferred.

Yes, unless the recipe called for sugar and the "chef" who tried it was clueless and subbed something dumb like sweet curry powder and then complained the recipe sucked.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by SilverRed »

brobinson wrote: post #38
crochi wrote: post #37

Can someone clarify the slang 'based'?

Defined here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_B#Artistry

This is not at all what the OP link is using the word to mean. "Based" has become a meme word to mean good, agreeable, against the norms, and often controversial.

Re: Based Cooking

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Post by eps »

Beef Stroganoff is a sour cream based sauce, which is its principle ingredient.

This one doesn't have it. The recipe itself is fine, just the name is off.

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