The future sucks

There's a firefox extention that filters out everything irrelevant to the recipe. At this point as soon as I open the browser half my ressources go into reverting enshittification.

It was life changing when I realised uBlock Origin can block whatever I want from web pages and not just ads.
All the links at the right of an article, headers and menus that want to continue occupying screen space after I've scrolled down, the entire comments section on some pages. Bam, gone.
Pages with cookie banners that don't have a one-click reject all button? Just block the banner.

Those are put there for SEO purposes. Google favors sites with these big stories. The copyright issue alone doesn't justify what's there; you could do a quick blurb of a few sentences and it would be enough. Plenty of cookbooks do that.

This is why a lot of those sites have a button that says "skip to recipe". It's a bunch of text that's meant to be for robots, not you, and they really don't care if you read it.

Now that it's being created by LLMs, we may have the first known example of human language written by robots and intended for robots. Welcome to a cyberpunk dystopia.

SEO is part of it, but it's also literally just more physical real estate for ads. Recipe sites, including personal recipe blogs, are infamous for the sheer volume of ads placed on them. Yes, everyone just scrolls to the recipe so it kind of doesn't matter, but longer text means more space for ads.
So why not put the recipe first, and the bullshit after?
- Search engines favor text earlier in the site. Text "above the fold" (the area where you wouldn't have to scroll to see it) is scored higher.
  https://www.pedalo.co.uk/seo-experiment-text-position-keyword-rankings/
- Because that's what computers used to be for. Now we drive engagement.
I've had to explain that to people soooo many times. All those words, all those pics (with alt text), it's just to make the site higher on the search results...
There's so much "work" done in our capitalist society that is actively creating a drag on our lives, all to extract more money from us to the billionaire class. It will never be enough for them. Bezos and Fuckerberg would own slaves if the state allowed them to.
- But I was told capitalism was the most efficient system.

Add “cooked.wiki/“ in front of any recipe url to preserve your sanity

time to make a recipe website that hides the recipe in JavaScript, but leaves the story in HTML.
- Satan: “Alright, let’s all calm down for just a moment.”
- Just make the recipe an image that only appears when you rotate the 3D dog to face 👉 this way

If the "jump to recipe" button doesnt work or doesnt exist, Im out.

Sadly, by the time you see that the button isn't there, you've already given them the visit and ad impressions... Well, unless you run an ad blocker but what horrible person would do that?
- Adblocker FTW. Also im pretty sure ads dont pay shit without clickthrough. God the current financialisation of the web sucks ass.

The cruel part is that it was nested somewhere in the story and he scrolled past it just after day one.

Hey OP, please credit the creator if you can next time!

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/muffins

Oh wow, didn't realize it was cropped.
- I don’t think it is cropped? There doesn’t seem to be a signature or watermark or whatever on the original either.
  So I guess you did your best on this one. ¯(ツ)/¯

justtherecipe.com

Holy fuck I needed this in my life
- A website that begs you to download their app instead of just having recipes?
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Recipe articles are probably the best examples of web content whose only real purpose is ad clicks. All of the text is flavor text, in every sense.

recipe-scrapers, a python library for scraping the recipes only from hundreds of different recipe sites and blogs. Powers other tools like pure-recipe. Doesn't use AI.

Is there a site that does it right? I just need an ingredient list, times, temperatures and maybe a handful of specific pointers if I really need them.

seriouseats.com used to be a lot better, but the fluff before the recipe is generally focused on why the recipe uses the ingredients and quantities it uses, what else was tried, and what the results were. Especially for the older articles written by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, it ends up being almost more useful than the final recipe they land on. I know you were asking for a no-frills recipe site, but this approach is great for two reasons: 1) you can scroll to the bottom for a no-frills recipe, and 2) if that didn't work, or if you want to tweak it, the full article has a ton of helpful information, and not, like, a biography of the author's grandma.
His chocolate chip cookie article is a all-timer for food science.
Someone should make a browser extension or something that automatically recognizes what part of the page is the recipe, extracts it, and only shows you that.
- The paprika app does this
swissmilk.ch
chefkoch.de

You of in the food and of out the cold hot food

Come again?

I use https://www.copymethat.com/ and share an account with my wife. The app makes it easy for us to use while cooking and scraping recipes even works on mobile! You can add the ingredients to a shopping list, and it even organizes them by aisle/category!

eh bad take imo, this is one of the few places where AI shines, it's great because you no longer need to go to a recipe website to begin with, you just ask it for a recipe and it gives you one and then you can discuss different variants etc

Like those that use glue to keep cheese from sliding off the pizza.
In case you're not joking, please don't trust this technology with anything that you are putting into your or someone else's body. You're going to have a bad time.
- In case you’re not joking, please don’t trust this technology with anything that you are putting into your or someone else’s body. You’re going to have a bad time.
  It's too late buddy
  Similarly, a February study from the University of Sydney, which surveyed more than 2,000 adults, reported that nearly six in ten respondents had asked ChatGPT at least one high-risk health question—queries that would typically require professional clinical input.
  https://observer.com/2025/05/openai-chatgpt-health-care-use/
  Also please don't go blindly believing all advice you're given, you obviously don't use glue on a pizza in the same way you don't follow google maps through a river or off a pier.
I respectfully disagree, while you might be able to get some pointers, I would not trust LLMs with the ingredients quantities (given that replacing a number or measure unit is quite easy and would go unnoticed)
So while I could understand asking: "should I put bell peppers on this dish?", I would never trust it's answer to "how much bell pepper should I put in the recipe?" (Which I believe is what recipes are about)
- I would never trust it’s answer to “how much bell pepper should I put in the recipe?” (Which I believe is what recipes are about)
  I mean to be fair, you're free to click on the links if you want to verify these things no?
How much glue should I add to my pasta?
- You should not add glue to pasta when cooking or serving it. The idea of adding glue, such as Elmer's glue or any craft glue, to pasta is not appropriate for food consumption and is likely a joke or misunderstanding found in some informal discussions.
I've seen too many hallucinations specifically with this to even want to try it.
- What ai were you using? I'm curious (and expecting either Google AI summary or no response)
This sounds like a way to get food poisoning.
Not if you want any kind of consistency so you can actually replicate or understand what you're doing. Like hallucinations aside (and we really shouldn't put them aside because they're a very real thing in this context), the point of a recipe is that you aren't just getting an averaged version of the process; you're getting a curated version with specific considerations in mind.
So you can ask AI for a cinnamon apple pie recipe, and you might get an okay one, but you're probably never going to get a better-than-average one. And if you do like the version of the recipe it gave you, you had better write it down because when you ask for it next time, it's not going to be the same cinnamon apple pie recipe. I've personally played around with recipes in AI, and even within the same chat, there's no consistency because it never "knows" anything; it only makes predictive guesses. So when I say, "I like that recipe, but let's try half as much ginger and maybe add some mirin," it will reduce the ginger and add mirin, but suddenly all the volumes of the other ingredients have changed, and some items may even disappear.
So yeah, I think this is something that AI could potentially work well for in the future, as is kind of always the case with any potentially useful AI application right now. But right now, until they've been developed with some kind of better active memory and/or something resembling comprehension rather than predictive association, I think this is a field where AI is passable at best, not yet somewhere it shines.
It's awesome that it gives you cooking tips you'll find no where else, like adding glue to improve the consistency of cheese. Or making sure you get your recommended daily serving amount of rocks.
Agree. I've discovered some good unique gluten free cooking options for my son with AI. I never even knew about Coconut Aminos.
Man the ai hate is so strong on lemmy they can't even admit when it's good at something. Though I'm guessing a lot of these people's experience with getting recipes from it is memes of bad hallucinations and not actually trying it looking at all the "glue on pizza" takes.
I'll back you up though, have gotten a lot of good recipes from chatgpt, even for baking which doesn't have a lot of room for error.
you should ask ai why you don't have a gf
- Ok, you made me look.
  Perplexity got the longest, most boring and uplifting article about how it's normal and there's nothing to worry about. It never mentioned that my wife would dislike the idea, so the personalization was off for the day.
  Also, it gave no references. What is weird. Like if the text was hardcoded there.