I like to bake and make in the kitchen and while I have my own recipe collection I still look up recipes online all the time, which I think is a common thing to do. There are a lot of “food bloggers” or recipe sites and the old joke is that you have to read someone’s life story before you can read the recipe. “I’m a busy mom with three active kids and a husband who works a lot of hours” or however it goes before a long story about how a quick and easy recipe is just the ticket for a weeknight with soccer practice and swim lessons…
Where was I? Oh yes, I’m a busy maker who just wants the damn recipe. I often use an old iPad in the kitchen and I’ve noticed that some of these food/recipe blogs are so overrun with ads… popup ads, video ads, and lots of faff, that my iPad sometimes can’t even render or properly load the page.
Now I know these bloggers are trying to make a living (or at least extra money) by “posting content” that will get clicks and views and all that but I hate it. I hate it. So I will visit your site one time, I will copy and paste your recipe into my digital notebook and use that, and add my own notes, and keep the URL in case I ever want to visit again, and if I make changes I may even share it on my own blog.
You can find all of the recipes I’ve shared (free of ads and tracking) by following the recipe tag.
(And yes, I do know about ad blockers, I run uBlock Origin on my desktop browsers, etc. I should probably just stick to using the laptop in the kitchen to keep things clean.)
Update: Check out cooked.wiki!