Why are so many recipe blogs so bad? Ads and poorly organized?!
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Anonymous
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Why are they all so awful? Absurd amounts of adds, and poorly organized. Just give me the info - I don't need to scroll through 17 pictures and paragraphs of random commentary before I get to the actual recipe.
I understand the need for ad revenue, but they often have a ridiculous amount that makes their site impossible to navigate. |
Anonymous
| They all look exactly the same to me. Like the same wordpress format with the same picture of the same blonde lady and her dumb bio. But they always have the "jump to recipe" option so try that. |
Anonymous
| I agree that recipe blogs are full of ads and disorganized. But my complaint is with the recipe itself. It’s garbage 50% of the time. Too much garlic, sugar, etc. The food does not turn out the way it looks online. I usually compare it against legit cooking sites like NYT and America’s Test Kitchen. |
Anonymous
| These women are the same as "fitness influencers" to me. So many unqualified junk on the internet. They either look very fake pretty or they are the middle aged moms trying to get you to relate! |
Anonymous
| Download the recipe app. Once you have it on your device and you go to one of those blogs, you can upload the recipe into the app and it removes all the adds and the endless mindless text. It’s a game changer. |
Anonymous
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My friend in cooking, you need this: https://cooked.wiki/
Plug in the URL to whatever recipe you're looking for and it will strip away all the BS for you. Enjoy! |
Anonymous
AI. A lot of the pics are AI, too. Welcome to the enshittification of all things. |
Anonymous
| Just Ctrl+F for "print" and it will jump you to the printable version. |
Anonymous
| It's really frustrating. I've narrowed it down to a few that have solid recipes and I am willing to deal with the ads for their recipes. I like Once Upon a Chef, Damn Delicious, and Smitten Kitchen. |
Anonymous
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Because the only way to monetize sites like that are to optimize them for scrolling, keeping people on the page seeing as many ads as possible.
This is why every recipe has some giant essay about what this recipe means to them ahead of it. So I mean, it is annoying, but once I realized that is what was going on I just accepted it. They are trying their best and they don't need to give me recipes out of the goodness of their heart and this way we get the recipe for free and they get some compensation. |
Anonymous
| Because all you want is the actual recipe and they purposefully make it hard to find. |
Anonymous
But it has the opposite effect for me. It's so hard to navigate, that I hit the back button. I sure as hell don't want to comment, leave a review, or spend time if it slows down my browser. |
Anonymous
| It's all Google SEO AI-slop to generate click revenue? Most of them are probably based in India. |
Anonymous
| Agreed. I’ve shifted to YouTube. Most have a link for the pdf of the recipe you can print out. I’m considering throwing my tablet up on the counter and having my own little one on one cooking class. |
Anonymous
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So why aren't women working harder to give you the free stuff you want?
Why aren't you working harder to come up with original complaints? Do better. |