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  • AllTheRightEngels [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Search engine optimization is why. The more relevant words you pump into your page, the more likely you'll wind up at the top of searches. Also, you can squeeze in more ad space. Basically it's capitalism's fault that I can't just read a fuckin recipe like I want

    • animist [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      doesn't it also let you copyright it? cause you can't copyright a recipe but you can copyright the "what i did on my summer vacation" essay that goes with it

      • AllTheRightEngels [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        You can copyright recipes if there's enough substance around the instructions. Like if I write a recipe, but also include step-by-step pictures, give you tips on how to properly whisk, when to tell when it's cooked, etc, then I can claim copyright. If it's purely a "what I did on vacation" blog post with a recipe at the bottom, you can't.

        Long way of saying, yeah you're right

    • NationalizeMSM [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Ha, that's probably right. In fact, most probably don't have any of that! But you don't see them because the ones with good SEO take up the first 3 pages of Google results.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I'm convinced that adding pineapple makes your recipe rank higher for "Hawaiian" dishes because of the long-standing dumb-dumb correlation between "Hawaiian" and "Pineapple"

        It's hard to find good Hawaiian style recipes because the results are flooded with midwestern moms putting fucking pineapple in shit.

        Edit for an example: https://www.google.com/search?q=hawaiian+style+chili+recipe

        Hawaiian style chili is a thing, it has Portuguese sausage, maybe ginger and soy sauce, otherwise standard ingredients for chili-with-beans. Usually has green bell peppers, kidney beans and chili beans. Sometimes you put mayonnaise in it after serving, which sounds weird, but it's like sour cream only better.

        But all three of the top carousel results are some asshole's fucking chili with PINEAPPLE.

        FOUL.

        This is the real shit: https://mypinterventures.com/hawaiian-chili-copycat-zippys-chili/

          • SerLava [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah it's amazing, I won a chili contest at my work with it a few years back. I usually use poblano peppers for some extra heat and kinda saute all the veggies/beans for 5 mins before adding the sauce. And I use tomato paste instead of ketchup, which people commonly do. Many people also add ginger powder, which is great.

            And it goes really well with white rice. It's kind of meant to go with rice, but I usually skip it because carbs.

            Also garnish with green onions

        • NationalizeMSM [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this. But have you ever had Hawaiian pizza? Pinnapples on pizza? It's literally mixing oil and water because the cheese releases oil and the Pinnapple is watery. I'll never understand that.

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            4 years ago

            and the Pinnapple is watery

            as opposed to the not water-based tomato sauce?

            • SerLava [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              yeah but the tomato sauce is already highly reduced from a raw tomato, unlike a raw pineapple, which is a bag of water

          • SerLava [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah and it's terrible

            invented by a C*n*d**n

          • Moonrise [comrade/them,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            by that logic tomato, onions, peppers, and mushrooms are bad pizza toppings.

            not that it makes pineapple on pizza any better.

            • NPa [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              pizza places putting raw mushrooms on their pizzas makes me irrationally angry. Just cook them off first so they don't weep, you bastards

        • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Sorta related but Hawaiian BBQ is so good. I also never thought I'd like SPAM, just cause of how unappealing it is, but holy shit, when done right it's actually really good

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This. Increasingly Google looks for what it deems to be organic content, often meaning more naturally written, in order to reduce the impact of generic blogs or shell sites that are just used for back linking. In theory it's a good idea as it prioritizes real content written by real people, but in a scenario like this it can be a bit annoying.

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    it's super fun to try and follow a recipe on your phone when it's 10 paragraphs of their life story with autoloading ads that make the page jump around at random, even when your adblock stops them loading 👍

    • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      To be fair the page jumping around at random just makes me feel like I'm at home on chapo chat

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          "Substituted the chicken for oysters and almost died of anaphylaxis, one star because author tried to kill me"

          • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            pretty sure people do this because they read reviews that are like

            "great recipe, very fluff and moist. suggest substituting in two cups coffee instead of water to enhance the chocolate flavour"

            and decide that if someone can deviate from the recipe in a good way but call the recipe good, clearly that means their own deviation that went awful wasnt actually their fault but was really all because the recipe is terrible.

            "substituted coffee for the water like the other review said, but the coffee grounds have an awful gritty texture! recipe is terrible, not moist at all! one star!"

            :picard:

              • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                you dont just add coffee to things. its a substitution for water thats already in a recipe, because coffee is literally just flavoured water.

                you could also steep it in milk or cream, but thats a different conversation

                edit: people absolutely do make bad suggestions tho. "this recipe needs three tablespoons of salt, not one half teaspoon!" :virgil-sad:

              • CommieTommy [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                some of the best/worst experiences with cooking I've had have started by finding an interesting new recipe skimming through the ingredients, then realising that I don't have one of the main ingredients but I've already wedded myself to the idea of making it so I just try and substitute other things in and carry on. Using this method cooking becomes an emotional roller coaster and I usually end up sitting on the kitchen floor wandering why I made all the dumb choices I did while I wait for whatever monstrosity I've made to be finished in the oven / microwave. My greatest creations to date have been the 'Explosive Mug Muffin Fudge'[1] (I accidentally put icing sugar in instead of self-raising flour because I wasn't focusing, which caused the mug muffin to rapidly bubble up and then start popping within the microwave, and basically forming fudge due to the absurdly high sugar levels) and the Zombie Brain Muffins'[2] (me and a friend were going to make some muffins but due to poor coordination we ended up without most of the ingredients so we just cobbled together whatever we could, leading to us making marshmallow and macha muffins which made a mixture that looked like zombie brains), all of the other improvised recipes were awful so I never gave them a name I just try to pretend to myself that they never happened.


                1. TM ↩︎

                2. TM ↩︎

      • cilantrofellow [any]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah I make a point not to read it and scroll to the bottom before it even loads fully

        • Moonrise [comrade/them,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          but then you end up scrolling into the comments where people who don't know how to cook deviate from the instructions and claim the recipe is bad or endless scrolling ads about celebrity stuff.

        • anthm17 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I tried following one for chicken tikka masala.

          So bad. So so so so bad. bland flavorless chicken that had just pointless heat that added nothing.

  • gay [any]
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    4 years ago

    People speaking about their experiences feeding "picky eaters" would be neat if they were actually speaking about family with eating disorders… instead it's about weird dudes who think legumes will make them grow tits. And also their SOs always hate on their food when it's a hobby the blogger cares a lot about.

  • the_river_cass [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    it's a commercialization tactic. it improves "engagement" the way advertisers measure it because people stick around longer. and if you actually read the story, you have more of an emotional connection to the person who wrote it and might come back for more.

    's just capitalism ruining your recipes

  • Zoift [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's all padding so they can fit more ads on the page without it looking like a textwall of brainpoison.

  • TheRuns [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Get the extension Recipe Filter for Chrome or Firefox. You won't regret it. Pops the recipe right up and cuts out the novel before it.

  • minilogue [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I like how serious eats has a blog post that actually describes the process to make the recipes, but also has a direct link to just the recipe if you dont wanna read. Also having physical cook books is a good way to avoid dealing with website bullshit

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Correct. Posts generally need to be around 800 or more words to get Google's algorithm to crunch correctly. And it needs to be high quality English and related to the keyword topic. Hence cooking story.

      Also, a longer article can have more ad space.

      See also terribly padded YouTube videos.

  • anthropicprincipal [any]
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    4 years ago

    Recipe Filter on Chrome scrapes the site and puts the recipe in a pop up:

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlcdjbkdaegmljnnncfnhiioiadakae

  • KamalaHarris [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    What's the opposite of a struggle session? 'Cause this thread is definitely that.

  • necrocop [he/him,any]
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    4 years ago

    If I was smart, I would create a recipe website where that shit isn’t allowed. It’s nothing but the recipe you want. No 10 page essay. Just give me the god damn borscht.

  • BDE [any]
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    4 years ago

    I use an extension called Recipe Filter that condenses the webpage to just the recipe ingredients and instructions. It's awesome.