The ones that recommend like blending up some cottage cheese (it always seems to be blending cottage cheese) and making a healthy "cake" out of 3 ingredients seem like they would taste absolutely awful.

There are plenty of good recipes but like any good recipe they usually have several steps and a variety of ingredients and are much less likely to go viral. I'd rather source the majority of my recipes from the NYT or other sites

I mean…it’s not America’s Test Kitchen.

Anonymous wrote:What’s your feeling about them? The ones my kids have done barely explain anything bc they are so quick. I don’t think they are serious or even tested at all.

True. But it has my 15 year old son cooking dinner a few times a month. And he’s trying things like carbonara and California burritos. I’m a recipe follower (to a tee), but as someone who does all the cooking in our family…im a fan!

There's already a thread on this. Did you try search

I find blogs that actually put a recipe together for them. It usually works out!

I use it as a place to get ideas. Like someone made a “Korean” recipe that looked good so I found a more trustworthy source for an authentic recipe.

It’s helpful to see some techniques in action - soaking and folding rice paper, or other things that take practice.

I also think you have to be a decent cook to begin with to know if it’s going to work well or if the flavors are to your taste.

My tween always picks crap recipes to bake from when I can tell they’re crap by the way they’re written, but I guess that’s part of the learning process.

Anonymous wrote:I like the feta tomato pasta

This is the only one I've tried and we liked it as well. Also good with Boursin.

Anonymous wrote:My family isn’t on TikTok but I don’t see a problem with them. People are cooking, kids are cooking— isn’t that a good thing?

They are mostly terrible once made bc they don’t measure anything or give details! The feta tomato pasta mentioned above was a rare good result.

I love Muchin with Maddie. I found her through Liam (@theplantslant), who tests lots of TikTok recipes.

https://munchinwithmaddie.blog/

I like the feta tomato pasta

How to Cook That has a series of videos where an actual food scientist attempts some of these recipes and shows many are fake:

https://youtu.be/eYwnU1DuJOo?si=a0_GReDb3ul916kA

My family isn’t on TikTok but I don’t see a problem with them. People are cooking, kids are cooking— isn’t that a good thing?

What’s your feeling about them? The ones my kids have done barely explain anything bc they are so quick. I don’t think they are serious or even tested at all.