Recipe websites that aren't unusable, ad-filled, corporate shitholes -

[Captain Hastings Official]

I know the internet in the Year of our Lord 2021 is increasingly unusable for what ought to be basic functionality, but it seems like there really ought to be a website that just has cooking recipes. Where you can go if you're suddenly asked - to give a completely random example that didn't just happen to me yesterday - to prepare pan-fried catfish and have never done so before, and get a straightforward recipe for it, without a horrifyingly bloated web design that renders it functionally unusable. If it looks nice on mobile, so that you can, y'know, actually take a look at it in the kitchen, that's even better.

If it turns out that I need to just start collecting cookbooks, OK, so be it. That's probably the real long-term answer anyway. But, Jesus, cooking recipes are up there with pornography as the first thing that gets shared when a new communications medium is invented. You'd think this would exist.

 

[break these cuffs]

Simply Recipes was one I used a fair bit back when it was a lady's blog. Now I know it's a much larger website with different contributors. I only remember it steering me wrong once.

 

[HeyItsHarveyMacClout]

Chef John from food wishes is my usual go to. He has a recipe on nearly everything

 

[Blasterisk]

Kiwifarms, unironically.

 

[DuckSucker]

I used to use tastespotting.com which was a food blog aggregator, but the past few years, its been going down for like months at a time, and not really updating. Its been down most of 2021 so recently Ive just been googling and looking at random food blogs.

To me, as long as youre aware theyre mostly selling you shit, its not too bad. Ive not tried a lot of variety of shit in general because my parents were both hardcore boomers who are the consumers of Americana food in general--so if its not the most "authentic" it doesnt matter as much to me. To me, food blogs in general are just an extension of shit like Food Network TV recipes, or general foodie publications, just kind of decentralized and running on Amazon affiliate links.

I guess its not the greatest for if youre looking at it on mobile, but what I do is look at it on my desktop computer and just take photos of the ingredients and the directions and then look at it on the gallery in my phone. I also have an old laptop I keep around in the kitchen/living room so I sometimes use that because I like to listen to music when Im cooking anyway.

 

[The Real SVP]

https://based.cooking/

 

[Ikvion]

Just buy Joy of Cooking and you'll never have to depend on the internet again. It's a huge cookbook with instructions and recipes for cooking just about anything you can think of. Even shit like skinning squirrels and cooking them. The recipes are very basic and straightforward, and they have optional additions so you can enhance them to your liking or use what you have on hand. It'll have you covered next time you have to cook something you're unfamiliar with on short notice.

 

[serious n00b]

https://based.cooking/

Beat me to it.

 

[Pixy]

Recipes - The Australian Made Campaign

Australian Made recipes utilising the bets of local produce to create the Aussie meal

australianmade.com.au

Obviously, it's shilling for Australian products in the ingredients list, but that can easily be substituted with whatever you have on-hand.

 

[verygayFrogs]

Kiwifarms, unironically.

Same.

Ngl I have a few industry textbooks that I wouldn't mind sharing the recipes from. I mean I paid about $200 for all of them so better we all get uses out of it than just me

 

[Crankenstein]

I know the internet in the Year of our Lord 2021 is increasingly unusable for what ought to be basic functionality, but it seems like there really ought to be a website that just has cooking recipes. Where you can go if you're suddenly asked - to give a completely random example that didn't just happen to me yesterday - to prepare pan-fried catfish and have never done so before, and get a straightforward recipe for it, without a horrifyingly bloated web design that renders it functionally unusable. If it looks nice on mobile, so that you can, y'know, actually take a look at it in the kitchen, that's even better.

If it turns out that I need to just start collecting cookbooks, OK, so be it. That's probably the real long-term answer anyway. But, Jesus, cooking recipes are up there with pornography as the first thing that gets shared when a new communications medium is invented. You'd think this would exist.

Cooking blogs usually. Try looking up a specific dish then adding "blog" with the quotes into whatever search engine. You can use THIS to add in ingredients you already have to find a specific dish or get ideas.

Food Wishes Video Recipes

foodwishes.blogspot.com

https://pinchofyum.com

are decent examples. Or use Jewtube. Fitness folks, cottagecore folks, stay at home moms with USI and GOTIS make a lot of cooking videos too, make a playlist or something.

 

[Captain Hastings Official]

https://based.cooking/

This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Thank you. I just wish it had more recipes.

Just buy Joy of Cooking and you'll never have to depend on the internet again. It's a huge cookbook with instructions and recipes for cooking just about anything you can think of. Even shit like skinning squirrels and cooking them. The recipes are very basic and straightforward, and they have optional additions so you can enhance them to your liking or use what you have on hand. It'll have you covered next time you have to cook something you're unfamiliar with on short notice.

Yeah, you're right. Regardless of the existence of a decent website, physical books are always better.

 

[Blacklight]

I unironically go to /ck/ on 4chan

 

[The Shadow]

Bob Chipman's twitter feed for all your Mountain Dew based garbage marinade needs.

 

[Neigh]

Joy of Cooking, Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, Bon Appetit by Barbara Fairchild. If you want to get really into cooking there are french cookbooks from the greats but they are very expensive these days.
zlibrary has some of them. Knowing the basics of cooking is far better than just learning recipes.

 

[Brahma]

I usually use a cookbook but if I'm asked "will you cook me x"and it's something I've never done before first port of call is the BBC good food website.

The taste profile trends towards lcd so double any garlic or herbs and you're golden usually.

No nonsense website

 

[Horizontal Horror]

I recommend Hare Krishna recipes from the ancient times of GTA 2. You will find delicious and spicy holy recipes at this website.

The Hare Krsnas - Spiritual Practice - Krsna Prasadam - Recipes

 

[Xarpho]

Even printing out the recipes is practically unusable as it copies all the cruft of the article to whatever I copy it to. No, I don't care that you made this last spring and the kids loved it, and I don't care that there's Walmart sells some of the ingredients that the recipe has.

 

[Haram Exercise]

I unironically go to /ck/ on 4chan

Same but just to shitpost and dab on jannies

 

[Bad Gateway]

I really like Saveur, though it used to be much better than it is now. They do have sponsored content, retarded blogs, and all that other shit, but unlike pretty much every other site with all those problems their recipes are premium tier. Every single thing I've made from there has been incredible. Skip everything else on the site and just browse the recipes section. Or search what you're trying to make + Saveur.

Also? Martha Stewart. Not for nothin', that old bitch can cook. Website is a little hard to use (categorized by "theme" instead of by ingredient) and better to search from Google directly, but it doesn't have too much in the way of ads. Sponsored content though, lots of that.