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.
Try Allrecipes.com. No fluff, just recipes.
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.
I use paprika 3 to extract and save recipes - works well enough that I eventually sprang for the paid version
+1 for paprika. Works like a charm. Other great features too. I have all my recipes with all of my personal tweaks/notes from the past 10 years in there. Also, all of my ‘special occasion’ meal planning goes through there.
I’m probably old-school, but you may also find you get some good use out of cookbooks if you find good/reliable ones. They’re also kind of fun to browse/explore once you have faith in the source.
A few I’d recommend: The Food Lab America’s Test Kitchen Good Eats
If there’s a cuisine you favor you, you might try finding a commonly recommended book or author in that area.
I haven’t seen that one. I’ll check it out!
I have used Recipe keeper for years myself.
The main features I like are the ways to import recipes (web, photos and text) I can take a picture of a handwritten recipe and it will magically recreate it. It also has an app for windows, so laptops/tablets and my android phone all sync up. You can make your own cookbooks too.
How good is Recipe keeper with handwriting that is hard to read? And can it do more languages than English?
