Really? 10,000 pictures for a simple recipe??

[Galileo126]

I'm on a rant today, please ignor if you are having a happy day.

On the internet, I'm looking up a recipe. (Doesn't matter which one.)

So I click, looking for the ingredients list (what used to be called "the recipe".)

All I get now are 10,000 pictures of every damned step - including someone's freaking cat - (hey, internet was made for cats, apparently).

I think I'm going back to cookbooks. All I wanted was a recipe, not a picture expose' of your life.

A simple -fracking- recipe! Damn...

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Been running into that myself.

You find a good sounding recipe on the Google, go to the page, where there is a cooking blog and what sounds like some young thang filling 3/4 of the page with pics and blathering on and on about her/his thoughts on the recipe.
Then wayyyyyy down at the bottom there is the recipe.

A solution...the newer Firefox browser has "reader view" which is little square icon at the end of the address bar.
When you click on it, it changes the page and eliminates all the extraneous stuff.
Then you can scroll faster to see the recipe.
I have been using the feature a lot, cause it is easier to read.

[NJCher]

2. Same complaint, different angle

We were talking about internet recipes one night at dinner, and the RG remarked that whenever food bloggers develop a following, they start expounding on their life, which he doesn't want to hear about.



Cher

[dem in texas]

3. Have you seen a new cookbook lately, too many pictures there, too.

I was given a cookbook recently. It was a brand new publication and about 3 inches thick. It was heavy on pictures and light on recipes and food information.

[NJCher]

4. the librarians

tell me that all the cookbooks now have to have color pics. They say they hardly order any cookbooks now without pics. People won't check them out.

My two cents worth is that this is a result of people having pics on internet recipes.

Color pics are horribly expensive to reproduce in print. Makes cookbooks very expensive.

Oh well, it's just our tax dollars, right?


Cher

[onyourleft]

8. I would prefer...

...no pictures but always include a box with the nutrition information.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Or a multigigabyte video to make a cheeze sandwich ...

succinctness is a vitrue not appreciated by some.

[csziggy]

6. I like AllRecipes.com for finding new ideas

While they do have videos most of their recipes are straight lists of ingredients with instructions. One of their most useful features is the ability to search for ingredients. I use that a lot to find new ideas on how to use in season items or on sale items. I also like their ratings and frequently find new variations on the recipes on the site.

They do have a "pro" version that is fee-based but I've never signed up for it and still find the site extremely useful. I can still save recipes I like to my online "recipe box" and print copies to share or to take into the kitchen to cook. I had to register to be able to use the recipe box but have not gotten any spam from the site.

http://allrecipes.com/

[onyourleft]

7. I agree.

There are too many pictures and way too much other information.

[hobbit709]

9. I can pretty much find any recipe I want here and no pictures.

http://recipesource.com/

[SheilaT]

10. I've been noticing that also.

Recently I found a recipe that was only pictures, no amounts, no actual hints about how to cook.

I came across a thing the other day about how to make perfect toast, which involved putting butter on the bread and then in the broiler. At least I think they were using the broiler, but it certainly never said so, never gave a hint as to how long the bread should be in the oven. And all I could think of was you'd only have the one side toasted, so what good was that?