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
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
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
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.
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/
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
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
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.
and the Pinnapple is watery
as opposed to the not water-based tomato sauce?
yeah but the tomato sauce is already highly reduced from a raw tomato, unlike a raw pineapple, which is a bag of water
by that logic tomato, onions, peppers, and mushrooms are bad pizza toppings.
not that it makes pineapple on pizza any better.
pizza places putting raw mushrooms on their pizzas makes me irrationally angry. Just cook them off first so they don't weep, you bastards
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.
Yup. Keeps a fair few copywriters afloat if nothing else, since content repeated elsewhere ranks lower and content Google suspects is written by programs tanks your SEO.
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 👍
To be fair the page jumping around at random just makes me feel like I'm at home on chapo chat
"Substituted the chicken for oysters and almost died of anaphylaxis, one star because author tried to kill me"
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:
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:
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.
Yeah I make a point not to read it and scroll to the bottom before it even loads fully
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.
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.
if by bit you mean they wandered in from the_donald.lose yes
you literally aren't worth the time it would take me to mock your psychosis
I'm not trans btw
But stick a gun in your mouth you worthless subhuman piece of shit
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 👍
Did you ever learn to read?
Screaming "MYSOGINY" at a wall for no reason is like the purest form of idpol
you’re fucking blind, aren’t you?
get out of here with your ableist bullshit
seriously
Unironically this is a thing I'm trying to stop saying because of ableism. Shouldn't shit on blind people when what I want to say it "you're not listing to me"
I'm not anti-idpol, I think lib idpol is dumb because it leads to arguments like yours
Lenin is peepee poopoo, when will you post hog? Or does your crusade stop when it becomes politically inconvenient?
"“why won’t this page just have the recipe, regardless of the authors gender”
I can't believe you got a full night's rest only to get up and immediately get back to being an ass online lmao. Kind of impressive, ngl. Sad though
“shut up and get to the sandwhich woman”
Me when I read a woman's food blog and she won't shut up about her childhood
Yea. Why the fuck would you buy a carrot? Are you gonna shove it up your ass? Deepthroat it? OK fa-
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
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.
It's all padding so they can fit more ads on the page without it looking like a textwall of brainpoison.
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.
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
serious eats is based
it's my auto whenever I want a recipe, literally don't use anything else
Recipe Filter on Chrome scrapes the site and puts the recipe in a pop up:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlcdjbkdaegmljnnncfnhiioiadakae
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.
What's the opposite of a struggle session? 'Cause this thread is definitely that.
IT'S ON FIREFOX BUT IT'S PROBABLY ON MOTHERFUCKING CHROME TOO
maybe you should stop using a browser made by people who run predatory loan schemes in africa
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.
hmm, this isn't a well-lit picture of your penis. you should really post that.
I use an extension called Recipe Filter that condenses the webpage to just the recipe ingredients and instructions. It's awesome.
