Internet recipe search - life hacks

[Anonymous]

I’m old so years ago searching for recipes would give me ones by Food Network or their alums, Martha Stewart, maybe BBC Good Food.

Now if I google a recipe I end up with some mom from Utah’s blog post recipe of incredibly varying quality, often with ingredients like Ritz crackers or Cream of Mushroom soup.

AI would give me recipes for glue.

I try to google search with network identifier strings, but it is way cumbersome and I would be interested in other recipes from published chefs (reviewed by actual food editors not just Amazon self publish) but I’m at a loss how to navigate this. Food recipes have been crushed by the modern web…

[Anonymous]

I go to specific sites like epicuruous etc. thst pull from testednplaces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I go to specific sites like epicuruous etc. thst pull from testednplaces.

Doesn’t that require paid subscription?

[Anonymous]

If you start doing it you will get better at quickly identifying good recipes. In general I look for one that I assume will be good, then I look at the middle of the road reviews. If you see the same criticism a couple of times then it is probably correct.

I also own trusted cookbooks, I also know which content creators are actual good chefs and which are bland Utah moms. I also have a cooks illustrated membership.

You’ll get better at identifying what you are looking for if you just start doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you start doing it you will get better at quickly identifying good recipes. In general I look for one that I assume will be good, then I look at the middle of the road reviews. If you see the same criticism a couple of times then it is probably correct.

I also own trusted cookbooks, I also know which content creators are actual good chefs and which are bland Utah moms. I also have a cooks illustrated membership.

You’ll get better at identifying what you are looking for if you just start doing it.

PP again. I want to say I’m a 40 year old mom who works full time and has two elementary kids. I’m not spending significant time on this. I’m just as likely to cook extra chicken nuggets to put on top of a bagged Cesar salad for dinner as I am to cook a French feast to celebrate the opening ceremony of the Olympics. So take my opinion for what it’s worth.

[Anonymous]

I do really well on allrecipes dot com, surprisingly. They come up top of my searches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you start doing it you will get better at quickly identifying good recipes. In general I look for one that I assume will be good, then I look at the middle of the road reviews. If you see the same criticism a couple of times then it is probably correct.

I also own trusted cookbooks, I also know which content creators are actual good chefs and which are bland Utah moms. I also have a cooks illustrated membership.

You’ll get better at identifying what you are looking for if you just start doing it.

PP again. I want to say I’m a 40 year old mom who works full time and has two elementary kids. I’m not spending significant time on this. I’m just as likely to cook extra chicken nuggets to put on top of a bagged Cesar salad for dinner as I am to cook a French feast to celebrate the opening ceremony of the Olympics. So take my opinion for what it’s worth.

Gross.

[Anonymous]

Food network.com is still free. I also often just search for a trusted chef/cook + dish name and see what comes up.

[Anonymous]

I like the Cook Pad app. Its like AllRecipies but without the weird spammy intros they have added to all their recipes.

[Anonymous]

I found this too. I rely on the NYTimes website and the few blogs that are actually decent (Damn Delicious and Smitten Kitchen.)

[Anonymous]

I've said this before, but EatYourBooks.com is litreally magic. It indexes recipes from books, magazines and websites. So you just login, search for an ingredient and then it finds all the recipes in your collection that use that ingredient, and where to find it (a page number) and also if there's a link to an online version.

You pay like $6 a year, and you type in all the cookbooks you have, all the cooking magazines you have and you link to all of the recipe websites they index, and you can easily search the huge collection of great recipes that you already have—and cookbook recipes are USUALLY much, much better than internet recipes, and especially so if it's an older cookbook. As far as the websites they index, the rule is that they'll include any websites that will mention them, so they've got most of the NYT and WaPo food columnists and Serious Eats, Food52, Smitten Kitchen.

It's really miraculous. I love it. I don't even mess with stupid AI generated recipes and Instagram garbage anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I go to specific sites like epicuruous etc. thst pull from testednplaces.

Doesn’t that require paid subscription?

Yes. Such a bummer - they used to be free. Kitchn.com has recipes.