Fluff-Free Recipe Sites

Discussions center on tools and websites like JustTheRecipe, PlainOldRecipe, and based.cooking that remove unnecessary stories, ads, and fluff from online recipes to deliver clean ingredients and instructions.

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wyclif Nov 17, 2024 View on HN

Just The Recipe is a similar service: https://www.justtherecipe.com/

dang Oct 15, 2023 View on HN

Related:Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17180686 - May 2018 (75 comments)

gaudat Feb 1, 2023 View on HN

Also see this crowdsourced alternative. If there are cooks on HN you can send a pull request to add your receipe.https://based.cooking/

alisonkisk Mar 2, 2021 View on HN

Doesn't every recipe app do this already?

russfink Jun 5, 2022 View on HN

Interesting! Do you store your own recipes, or does this scrape recipies from other sites? I like the lack of ads and overall simplicity. Well done!

ncpa-cpl Jan 2, 2022 View on HN

What's a good alternative for recipes?

mrweasel Nov 1, 2024 View on HN

Should be good for cooking recipes then.

jakear Jul 5, 2020 View on HN

Any chance that recipe dump is available online anywhere?

russfink Jun 6, 2022 View on HN

My 100++ problem with recipe sites is a useless story about how my great aunt Ellie passed this down to me from her mom,. . . Making me scroll through random stuff until I land on “ingredients.” I favor the simple site. (Ads are okay even, as long as not overwhelming.)The second feature I love here is “I have eggs, milk, flour” - would be nice to have another box where I can type in “bread” as the intended target. Or “dinner” even. Might use NLP for that.

WillAdams Dec 9, 2024 View on HN

There is a special-purpose tool for this:https://www.justtherecipe.com/which was mentioned here a while back:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42160959