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For one, when I search a recipe, I want less than a 30 page document. I've wanted this for 20 years, and so has everybody else.

>>zug_zu+(OP)
I feel your pain and switched to high quality, physical cookbooks instead. Recipes on the web are generally garbage unless they come from an author that you’ve already vetted.

>>zug_zu+(OP)
The personal backstory and other "fluff" is actually really useful when selecting a recipe. I was laid up with covid/rebound while traveling over the holidays and lived off Hainanese Chicken Rice delivery. Now I want to make it at home and search for a recipe.

#1 result is a long article with culinary history, detailed instructions, many pictures, and a credited author originally from Shanghai.

#2 result is a simple recipe listing from Buzzfeed. Written by a young white guy from Minnesota who worked as a producer. No fluff, no pictures, no backstory. Doubtful the author ever made the recipe at all. You could grab a recipe database and generate thousands of these pages.

I've been burned by #2 too many times disregard the fluff. It shows their investment in the content.