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Search engine optimization ruined the web. Change my mind!
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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No, you're right
As a web guy, absolutely. It's the fucking worst
Forgot the part "why would you want to make this brew?" "How can it benefit your life?"
Think about everything, are you ready to commit into cooking?
Do you have access to a kitchen?
Honestly this has been the only thing I regularly use AI for. Recipes without BS.
How did the glue spaghetti taste?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes
Type in any dish, get just the recipe. From a pro chef.
Now I need instructions on how to change my oven from F to C
There are still a couple no bullshit sites out there, but they aren't hyper seo pits so they don't show up in a lot of searches. America's test kitchen is the one I use most
I use AI to extract recipes and import them into my recipe manager rather than generate them. Both from hyper SEO'd websites, and physical books (take picture with phone).
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
