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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

I've seen this site. It's a great proof of concept, and it works perfectly well for what the developer wanted to highlight - it loads amazingly fast and there's no bullshit. It's just not a good cooking site for unrelated reasons, I'll give you guys some examples:

  • Lack of synonyms; e.g. barszcz/borscht, cuque/cuca.
  • That bloody weird obsession to tie cuisines with governments=countries, even when it doesn't make much sense.
  • Barely any variations listed. And even if there was, ingredient-based tagging can quickly become a mess if you enable this.
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am torn by my annoyance at recipes that include a life story and my annoyance at the overused and wildly cringey phrase "based".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Calling based cringe is mid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Frfr no cap

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

OMG can I one up this: https://cooked.wiki/ Just turn literally any recipe in a bloatless no bullshit version!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do I need a accout to use it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No! You just put it in front of an url.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For example, you want to remove the clutter from https://veganeria.blog/en/vegan-oreo-cheesecake/. You just go ahead and add "https://cooked.wiki/" in front of the URL like so:

https://cooked.wiki/https://veganeria.blog/en/vegan-oreo-cheesecake/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the explanation. However it would make sense if the site explained how this works on their otherwise empty homepage, instead of relying on strangers on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Neat, but needs some markdown as it’s kind of hard to read at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Wow that is incredible!!!! That will save me so much aggravation!!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is absolutely great. It would be cool if there was an Onion site and/or an Eepsite

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There is, at least for I2P.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Add butter to pasta after boiling. Wtf?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yeah, that's a thing. It keeps the pasta from sticking together

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't do that. It keeps the sauce from sticking to the pasta. Instead, mix the pasta with the sauce immediately after cooking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

For extra fun preheat the plates with the water from the pasta. Additionally the pasta water can be added to most sauces to make them more thick.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It also keeps the pasta from sticking to the sauce, which is usually the opposite of what I want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's when you put butter in the sauce to stick to the butter on the pasta.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Big brain move right here

Emulsions are weird.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

...until it cools and reforms into a solid mass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

And it actually does keep them seperated! Unlike that myth that haves people keep wasting perfectly good olive oil to boiling water. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Just don’t.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I dig the concept, but IMO they took it a few steps too far

I dont need 80 pictures per recipe, with those dumb "all the ingredients laid out in mice en place" type pictures and shit - but I do want at least one picture of the finished process so I can see what things are at a glance while browsing.

I feel like it'd also benefit from more ways to find recipes than broad categories

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Kenny, is that you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That's cool! I'm always annoyed by the recipe sites and even considered to start a no-bs recipe site. Seems like I don't need to 👍

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Thank you for this - looks like it's got an open source, ad-free Android app as well.