• @takeheart
    41•2 days ago

    Search engine optimization ruined the web. Change my mind!

  • M137
    -7•14 hours ago

    Never seen one without a “jump to recipe” button at the top, and I read a lot of recipes. So this is only stupidity on the readers part.

  • FlaxEnglish
    16•2 days ago

    Forgot the part “why would you want to make this brew?” “How can it benefit your life?”

    • kubica
      4•1 day ago

      Think about everything, are you ready to commit into cooking?

      • FlaxEnglish
        3•1 day ago

        Do you have access to a kitchen?

  • @Brkdncr
    15•2 days ago

    Honestly this has been the only thing I regularly use AI for. Recipes without BS.

  • @jordanlund
    12•2 days ago

    I learned a fun fact about old recipes last night… There’s a new edition of a cookbook published in 1866:

    https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5299983/first-cookbook-by-black-american-woman-malinda-russell

    But the recipes are a little inscrutable:

    “One pound flour. One ditto butter. Nine eggs. Two quarts milk. A little yeast mixed together warm.”

    WTF is a “ditto”?

    See also here from 1806:

    https://www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/routcakes

    “Rout Drop Cakes. Mix two pounds of flour, one ditto butter, one ditto sugar, one ditto currants, clean and dry; then wet into a stiff paste, with two eggs, a large spoon of orange-flower water, ditto rose-water, ditto sweet wine, ditto brandy, drop on a tin-plate floured; a very short time bakes them.”

    It makes more sense if you lay it out like a modern recipe:

    two pounds of flour
    two pounds (one ditto) butter
    two pounds (one ditto) sugar
    two pounds (one ditto) currants
    two eggs
    a large spoon of orange-flower water
    a large spoon of (ditto) rose-water
    a large spoon of (ditto) sweet wine
    a large spoon of (ditto) brandy

    • @IMALlama
      1•18 hours ago

      This seems very similar to the OG all recipies website. Most of their website isn’t that bad still. They also support creating an account to save and organize recipies.

      I do not understand the fragmentation of the modern web.

      Want to send money to a friend? Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, Google pay, Apple cash, Popmoney, etc. There’s also the growing swath of messaging apps that support peer to peer payment.

      Want to buy some second hand clothing? There’s Poshmark, Offer Up, Thread Up, Depop, Vinted, Etsy, Grailed, the RealReal, Craigslist, eBay, Facebook Market Place, etc. This is on top of the usual retailers who are also establishing an online presence like Plato’s closet, goodwill, etc.

      Rinse and repeat for basically any category possible. I’m running into consumer fatigue and I can’t imagine it’s better for sellers.