AFAIK it has to be like that because you can’t copyright a recipe. But, you can copyright the rest. The other reason is SEO. Dump as many keywords into the text as possible, and the recipe shows up near the top of the search results.
What I like are tools that can find the recipe in the text and extract it. The one in the Paprika app works really well.
Okay but why then can they not just put that bullshit part AFTER the recipe?
Answer: because they’re brutally annoying people and I hate them with every fibre of my being.
They do it so visitors have to stay longer/see more of the page furthering google SEO
Also you may like https://fmhy.net/misc#foodLook into “jump to recipe,” an option frequently included at the top of many recipe pages.
Most of them have a “jump to recipe” button at the top of the page.
Almost every recipie page I see has a prominent ‘jump to recipie’ button right at the top of the page.
Also the longer they make the article the more places for ads. Most websites are cool about this and add a “jump to recipe” button, but many don’t so they can get more ad revenue.
Or just Ctrl+F “Print”. Most pages have the link to print the recipe right above the actual recipe itself.
Wait until they figure out they could ask chatgpt to intertwine the made up childhood story and the recipe, then we’re all screwed:
The smell of freshly cut grass on my granny’s farm; I can remember it like it was yesterday, when she asked me to bring 3 large eggs from the chicken coop. Preferably from Helen, she was the strongest layer of all her hens, the cakes always seemed to taste better when we used her eggs. Maybe it was because she was a free range hen who got at least 3000 steps per day…
Please god no 😭
… whilst her good friend, Lady Daisy, chewed grass thoughtfully in the field adjacent. I kissed her thrice upon the brow before acquiring 5.2 ounces of milk from her bodacious underside. She looked at me then and frowned, legs akimbo, betwixt with a nascent expression of puzzlement suitable only to mothers and lovers…
I use https://www.justtherecipe.com/ to strip out the stories.
After a cookie banner that asks if they can share your info to only 851 other partners and a wall of text explaining how good this recipe is, if you’re lucky you can find the recipe at the bottom of the page covered by a full size ad
Put this in front of any recipe link https://cooked.wiki/
The only one I dont mind is serious eats. Mostly because it tells you more or even the scientific reason why this recipe works.
so the website is potentially just gas lighting you? heh
I love Mealie for this. One of its defining features is creating a recipe page from a url while scraping out the life story you get before it.
I just use copy me that to clip them
Ok slow down, people have some kind of issue with recipe blogs and how there’s often narrative text before the recipe??? Because this is definitely not the millionth time I’ve seen this same lame joke from 20 years ago recycled. 🙄
Here, for people that find this funny, I made you a new one:
nobody:
me: what’s the deal with airline food?
the food: I can’t talk I’m food
airplane: wtf a talking food
you’re welcome
They’re really not doing this anymore anyway. Maybe a little, but it’s not like what it was.
I mean, its annoying but its a free resource and they have to keep people in their site longer to get more engagement for add and such.
If you don’t want to deal with that, buy recipe books.
If me reading the ingredients for the 75th time isn’t enough I doubt me skipping the waffle text is.
Recipe books pull the same shit
whut? I must have some special books. while yes they have chapters on theory, science and why things work, the recipie pages themselves for me are just that. recipes. no fluff, no crap, no random unrelated things but ingredients, and steps to prepare with alternate flavors/modifications that could be done.
