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Based.cooking – Cooking recipes website without bloat and bullshit, straight to the point. (based.cooking)
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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 28 points 10 months ago

I've seen this site. It's a great proof of concept, and it works perfectly well for what the developer wanted to highlight - it loads amazingly fast and there's no bullshit. It's just not a good cooking site for unrelated reasons, I'll give you guys some examples:

  • Lack of synonyms; e.g. barszcz/borscht, cuque/cuca.
  • That bloody weird obsession to tie cuisines with governments=countries, even when it doesn't make much sense.
  • Barely any variations listed. And even if there was, ingredient-based tagging can quickly become a mess if you enable this.
[–] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am torn by my annoyance at recipes that include a life story and my annoyance at the overused and wildly cringey phrase "based".

[–] Rouxibeau@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Calling based cringe is mid.

[–] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Frfr no cap

[–] OddFed@feddit.de 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

OMG can I one up this: https://cooked.wiki/ Just turn literally any recipe in a bloatless no bullshit version!

[–] SourSweetChaos@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do I need a accout to use it?

[–] OddFed@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No! You just put it in front of an url.

[–] OddFed@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For example, you want to remove the clutter from https://veganeria.blog/en/vegan-oreo-cheesecake/. You just go ahead and add "https://cooked.wiki/" in front of the URL like so:

https://cooked.wiki/https://veganeria.blog/en/vegan-oreo-cheesecake/

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the explanation. However it would make sense if the site explained how this works on their otherwise empty homepage, instead of relying on strangers on the internet.

[–] NotThatKindofDoctor@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

Wow that is incredible!!!! That will save me so much aggravation!!!

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Neat, but needs some markdown as it’s kind of hard to read at the moment.

[–] eah@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'd also suggest Wikimedia Cookbook

[–] candle_lighter@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is absolutely great. It would be cool if there was an Onion site and/or an Eepsite

[–] churisotophu@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

There is, at least for I2P.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

I dig the concept, but IMO they took it a few steps too far

I dont need 80 pictures per recipe, with those dumb "all the ingredients laid out in mice en place" type pictures and shit - but I do want at least one picture of the finished process so I can see what things are at a glance while browsing.

I feel like it'd also benefit from more ways to find recipes than broad categories

[–] SourSweetChaos@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Add butter to pasta after boiling. Wtf?

[–] Blaubarschmann@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, that's a thing. It keeps the pasta from sticking together

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't do that. It keeps the sauce from sticking to the pasta. Instead, mix the pasta with the sauce immediately after cooking.

[–] luk3th3dud3@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

For extra fun preheat the plates with the water from the pasta. Additionally the pasta water can be added to most sauces to make them more thick.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It also keeps the pasta from sticking to the sauce, which is usually the opposite of what I want.

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's when you put butter in the sauce to stick to the butter on the pasta.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Big brain move right here

Emulsions are weird.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

...until it cools and reforms into a solid mass.

[–] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

And it actually does keep them seperated! Unlike that myth that haves people keep wasting perfectly good olive oil to boiling water. 🙄

[–] luk3th3dud3@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Just don’t.

[–] Bombastic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Kenny, is that you?

[–] feddit@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

That's cool! I'm always annoyed by the recipe sites and even considered to start a no-bs recipe site. Seems like I don't need to 👍

[–] Chicagoz@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

Thank you for this - looks like it's got an open source, ad-free Android app as well.