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.
I am torn by my annoyance at recipes that include a life story and my annoyance at the overused and wildly cringey phrase "based".
- Calling based cringe is mid.
  
  Frfr no cap
OMG can I one up this: https://cooked.wiki/ Just turn literally any recipe in a bloatless no bullshit version!
- Do I need a accout to use it?
  
  No! You just put it in front of an url.
- Wow that is incredible!!!! That will save me so much aggravation!!!
- Neat, but needs some markdown as it’s kind of hard to read at the moment.
I'd also suggest Wikimedia Cookbook
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
This is absolutely great. It would be cool if there was an Onion site and/or an Eepsite
- There is, at least for I2P.
Add butter to pasta after boiling. Wtf?
- Yeah, that's a thing. It keeps the pasta from sticking together
  
  Don't do that. It keeps the sauce from sticking to the pasta. Instead, mix the pasta with the sauce immediately after cooking.
  
  It also keeps the pasta from sticking to the sauce, which is usually the opposite of what I want.
  
  ...until it cools and reforms into a solid mass.
  
  And it actually does keep them seperated! Unlike that myth that haves people keep wasting perfectly good olive oil to boiling water. 🙄
  
  Just don’t.
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 👍
Kenny, is that you?
Thank you for this - looks like it's got an open source, ad-free Android app as well.

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