@blaineg Baking is Applied Chemistry and Applied Physics together. Rocket Surgery includes Applied Electrical Engineering. The usage of rockets often has peripheral involvement of Civil Engineering, when the rocket is designed not to reach orbit or escape velocity.
Food52 has good recipes.
You don’t have to scroll through endless stories about someone’s personal life and adorable kiddos and mischievous pups or vice versa, etc etc etc . There’s a narrative but it’s usually well-written,
with nice photos of the food.
@awk@Kyeh Check out a browser extension called Recipe Filter. It automatically scrapes the page for the actual recipe and puts it at the top of the page.
@Kyeh The crazy-long preamble also often leads to a recipe that flat does not work, or leaves out crucial steps, or contains instructions that were inaccurately cut-and-pasted from elsewhere. If following the recipe exactly as written will not recreate what the originator produced, then it is not properly written. In my experience, probably 95% of the recipes online have this problem to some degree.
@awk I knew someone who self-published a small crafts booklet with projects and put it up on Amazon. It has 2 reviews, a one-star that absolutely panned it for being not worth the money, and another with high praise. I happen to know that she wrote the 5-star one herself. So it showed up with a 2.5 star rating, but …
@awk@Kyeh I know someone self-published on Amazon that got a 1-star review as well. The reviewer said they didn’t read the book, and because it wasnt their genre, they gave it 1 star. What an asshole. Didn’t have time to read it, but found the time to write the review and shit on the author.
@awk As the number of raters increases, the reliability may go up, but there are exceptions. This isn’t from the same genre, but the DVDs of a couple of the MCU DVD releases got heavily one-starred before they shipped because of concerted campaigns to pan them, orchestrated by the same kind of trolls that caused Gamergate. And a whole bunch of stuff from China has loads of glowing reviews because the sellers paid people to post them. I’ve bought things on Amazon that came with explicit bribe offers in the box, in print, seeking to buy a good review. I have responded to such efforts appropriately - by posting an honest review, and sometimes noting within the text that the seller had tried to buy a 5-star rating, and missed it on the merits of the item. Sometimes you’ll find 5-star “reviews” (from others) that simply say “The seller sent me a $20 Amazon gift card for posting this 5-star review. The item actually sucks.”
@awk@werehatrack
That’s why I don’t trust Amazon reviews. I’ve received offers/gift cards from companies to post reviews of their products but they’ve clearly stated that they only want HONEST reviews and will even accept bad ones. They just have faith in their products and everything I’ve tried has been great and I’ve only given positive reviews. I won’t work with companies that only want positive reviews.
I do a lot of Pinterest but I’m also everywhere else for recipes, I like to look at the recipe on several different sites to find different ways to cook it.
@whydoidothis I have a habit of buying cookbooks. (It helps that my better half works at a book store) I own Modernist Cuisine–yes, the big honking expensive set, as well as the home version. I have at least 10 Pepin books. Bayless for Mexican. Ming Tsai for fusion (signed, yay!). BraveTart (best baking book.) I own culinary school textbooks.
If I could only have one, it would be America’s Test Kitchen farewell book: “The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001–2022: Every Recipe from the Hit TV Show Along with Product Ratings Includes the 2022 Season”
That thing is roughly $20, and covers basically anything and everything you could ever want to make. Unless you want to delve into crazy molecular stuff like using your washing machine spin cycle as a centrifuge, that book would be sufficient for everyone.
I have a cooksmarts membership for meal planning so that is my go-to place for lots of things. Otherwise we just google it and pick whatever looks the most like what we had in mind at the time. Pinterest makes me mad…is seems like I can’t just go to where I want.
@kostia@Renee4183@werehatrack
it doesn’t help that “disabling the inherent tracking features” of an image is considered both a copyright issue (derivative work) and a DMCA issue).
Search engines should hsve built-in blocking to avoid such content that is encumbered and festooned with forced tracking-without-consent or paywall or forced content-monetization (looking at you, youtube). Then people might realize the web has become the world’s most effective surveillance automation.
Binging with Babish, as well as his other site Basics with Babish, he has something for every occasion, and something for occasions you never thought of! To top it off he has on YouTube to accompany all the recipes.
meh.com
Pinterest
Taste of Home
@pooflady Yep!
budgetbytes.com
My brain. It’s not baking people. You don’t need rocket science
@Cerridwyn This can be read in so many ways…
@awk @Cerridwyn
@awk @bmf @Cerridwyn who needs punctuation when ambiguity is so much more fun?
@Cerridwyn So baking IS rocket science?
Or is it rocket surgery?
@blaineg Baking is Applied Chemistry and Applied Physics together. Rocket Surgery includes Applied Electrical Engineering. The usage of rockets often has peripheral involvement of Civil Engineering, when the rocket is designed not to reach orbit or escape velocity.
I like justapinch.com
https://anitalianinmykitchen.com/
@tinamarie1974
That one does look good!
@Kyeh I love her recipes and her style is very similar to my grandma and mothers cooking. In a pinch I check to see what she has on her site.
Food52 has good recipes.
. There’s a narrative but it’s usually well-written,
You don’t have to scroll through endless stories about someone’s personal life and adorable kiddos and mischievous pups or vice versa, etc etc etc
with nice photos of the food.
@Kyeh The day I discovered that many recipe pages have a “skip to recipe” button was truly a glorious day!
@awk Yes, definitely!
From the New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/if-you-want-my-blueberry-muffin-recipe-you-must-read-this-crazy-long-preamble-first
@awk @Kyeh Check out a browser extension called Recipe Filter. It automatically scrapes the page for the actual recipe and puts it at the top of the page.
@Kyeh The crazy-long preamble also often leads to a recipe that flat does not work, or leaves out crucial steps, or contains instructions that were inaccurately cut-and-pasted from elsewhere. If following the recipe exactly as written will not recreate what the originator produced, then it is not properly written. In my experience, probably 95% of the recipes online have this problem to some degree.
@awk @brennyn Thanks!
Whichever one has the most stars on the google search.
@awk You have to look at the number of raters, too …
@Kyeh Yes… I see you are wise in the ways of science!
@awk I knew someone who self-published a small crafts booklet with projects and put it up on Amazon. It has 2 reviews, a one-star that absolutely panned it for being not worth the money, and another with high praise. I happen to know that she wrote the 5-star one herself.
So it showed up with a 2.5 star rating, but …
@awk @Kyeh I know someone self-published on Amazon that got a 1-star review as well. The reviewer said they didn’t read the book, and because it wasnt their genre, they gave it 1 star. What an asshole. Didn’t have time to read it, but found the time to write the review and shit on the author.
@awk As the number of raters increases, the reliability may go up, but there are exceptions. This isn’t from the same genre, but the DVDs of a couple of the MCU DVD releases got heavily one-starred before they shipped because of concerted campaigns to pan them, orchestrated by the same kind of trolls that caused Gamergate. And a whole bunch of stuff from China has loads of glowing reviews because the sellers paid people to post them. I’ve bought things on Amazon that came with explicit bribe offers in the box, in print, seeking to buy a good review. I have responded to such efforts appropriately - by posting an honest review, and sometimes noting within the text that the seller had tried to buy a 5-star rating, and missed it on the merits of the item. Sometimes you’ll find 5-star “reviews” (from others) that simply say “The seller sent me a $20 Amazon gift card for posting this 5-star review. The item actually sucks.”
@awk @werehatrack
That’s why I don’t trust Amazon reviews. I’ve received offers/gift cards from companies to post reviews of their products but they’ve clearly stated that they only want HONEST reviews and will even accept bad ones. They just have faith in their products and everything I’ve tried has been great and I’ve only given positive reviews. I won’t work with companies that only want positive reviews.
Alexa, how do you make that?
@hchavers “Take two 't’s and put ‘ha’ between them with no spaces.”
@hchavers @werehatrack
so it’s a sort of HA sandwich…
Cooking with Hannibal
@ircon96 Babish recreated the clay-roasted thigh, and… it was not wonderful.
@werehatrack
He must have a sucky butcher. Hannibal would say it’s all about the sourcing. 
<Dials phone> Hello, Mom?
/giphy mom phone
Epic Meal Time!
My bookshelf with grandma’s hand-written recipes. Deciphering her handwriting is half the fun.
@mike808 Grandma’s recipes are always the best
Hearing Nigells pronounce meek-roe-wah-vey.
/youtube Nigella microwave
Babish, and Alton Brown.
www.seriouseats.com
www.chefsteps.com
pornhub lol
The New York Times cooking app used to be my favorite, but then I cancelled my subscription. Nowadays I like Smitten Kitchen.
@ahacksaw Smitten Kitchen’s beef with broccoli is a standard in three households in my friend group. If you haven’t tried it, do!
@kostia I would, except that I don’t eat meat.
@ahacksaw Stupid of me to assume!
I do a lot of Pinterest but I’m also everywhere else for recipes, I like to look at the recipe on several different sites to find different ways to cook it.
Serious Eats first, then NYT Cooking/Epicurious/Cooks Illustrated for 90% (remaining 10% cookbooks)
@whydoidothis I have a habit of buying cookbooks. (It helps that my better half works at a book store) I own Modernist Cuisine–yes, the big honking expensive set, as well as the home version. I have at least 10 Pepin books. Bayless for Mexican. Ming Tsai for fusion (signed, yay!). BraveTart (best baking book.) I own culinary school textbooks.
If I could only have one, it would be America’s Test Kitchen farewell book: “The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001–2022: Every Recipe from the Hit TV Show Along with Product Ratings Includes the 2022 Season”
That thing is roughly $20, and covers basically anything and everything you could ever want to make. Unless you want to delve into crazy molecular stuff like using your washing machine spin cycle as a centrifuge, that book would be sufficient for everyone.
I have a cooksmarts membership for meal planning so that is my go-to place for lots of things. Otherwise we just google it and pick whatever looks the most like what we had in mind at the time. Pinterest makes me mad…is seems like I can’t just go to where I want.
@Renee4183 Pinterest is Teh Eeebil. I keep meaning to block their IP space at my router. They make farcebork look tracker-free.
@Renee4183 @werehatrack Seconded.
/giphy giphy owned by facebook
@mike808 @werehatrack At least I am not the only person who hates Pinterest.
@mike808 @Renee4183 @werehatrack Far from the only one. I hate it. It ruins image searches so thoroughly.
@kostia @Renee4183 @werehatrack
it doesn’t help that “disabling the inherent tracking features” of an image is considered both a copyright issue (derivative work) and a DMCA issue).
Search engines should hsve built-in blocking to avoid such content that is encumbered and festooned with forced tracking-without-consent or paywall or forced content-monetization (looking at you, youtube). Then people might realize the web has become the world’s most effective surveillance automation.
Yummly
Binging with Babish, as well as his other site Basics with Babish, he has something for every occasion, and something for occasions you never thought of! To top it off he has on YouTube to accompany all the recipes.
@playtek
And especially Botched by Babish. Those are actually some of the best.
https://www.youtube.com/c/sousvideeverything
those guys are a riot, and they try all kinds of batshit crazy stuff…
@chienfou These guys dry age all kinds of foids and techniques
https://www.youtube.com/c/GugaFoods
Uncle Roger
https://youtube.com/c/mrnigelng
/image Uncle Roger fuiyoh
Youporn.com
@somf69
NSFW
And +incognito mode
@somf69 meh needs to take this link off. It’s not funny. I hope I do not get ads from clicking on this.