cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/280723
Not sure if I need to elaborate. I’m sick of having to scroll through an entire fucking novella just to find the recipe when I do a search for something.
There used to be paper encyclopedias of food. They were called something like… cookbook or something. Joking aside, i thought it would be nice to have a wikibook cookbook, so i went to check. And there is.
Based.cooking
The gatekeepers of the website are like big babies towards “unbased food trends” like vegetarian or vegan stuff.
Basically anything that could not be found in a 18th century inn is unbased for them.
Otherwise a great idea for a site tho.
I love the overall premise of the site - no fuzz, no bloat, no SEO.
However I’d be a bit careful with the recipes listed there - some (like galinha caipira*) are clearly intended as a simple base to edit to your tastes, while some (as that aglio e olio) are clearly derivative already, without saying “this is optional, not part of the base dish, but recommended”. And what’s up with tapioca starch in their omelet recipe???
*note: contrariwise to what the site implies, galinha caipira is not a dish. It refers to the raising conditions of the bird - free range, in a small property, pecking some bugs, rolling on dirt, chasing your cat off, etc. It’s basically the opposite of “industrially raised” chicken, it’s generally more flavourful but tougher. It’s great for braising, but the site seems to conflate braised meats with stews.
Good god, no, can you imagine the edit wars?
The problem with community-edited cookbooks is that you end up with multiple recipes for the same dish. I just searched for hummus on such a site and got 246 results. It has become useless over the years.
Something happened to online recipes over the past few years. They all follow this very painful almost identical format now, smattered with ads. There is usually a link up top to go to recipe which helps jump to what you actually wanted to see. As mentioned, paprika is a good extracter and archive and also does portion ratios for you.
Try Allrecipes.com. No fluff, just recipes.
