I just want a recipe - small vent

Yes I find it annoying as well.

I totally agree! I was just bitching to dh about this the other day. And I really don't need step by step photos!

I like one prep photo, maybe she cut her veggies different or something else I might pick up. It just makes the recipe look much easier having a visual of the process. What I don't like are 10 photos of the same finished plate.

OH YES. Scroll...scroll...scrollllll...just give me the damn recipe already.

I’m with you. I hate that. Plus so many have sponsors that inject HUGE ads after practically every sentence.

Just give me the recipe! (And PS - don’t hide the print button! )

that's my biggest pet peeve about  recipe blogs.  all the blah blah blah and 20 pics of the same finished food item taken at different angles.  i like blogs that get to the point and their pics are more step by step instead of the same pic over and over again.

Yes its getting bad. Post the recipe and then you can tell your story. I hate when I scroll and scroll and then there isn't even a recipe you have to pick it out from the long blog post with pictures.

I don’t mind scrolling through the blog post and sometimes I enjoy the story that goes along with it. What I don’t like is 20 pictures of the same completed food item taken from 20 different angles. 2 or 3 photos of the finished dish is enough.

ETA: I just read back and realized papersilly and I think a lot alike

I guess I could see where that would be annoying if that's all you want. But why not just go to a recipe site for a recipe instead of a blog if that's all you have interest in?

I would think a blog, by nature, is going to include more that just - here's a recipe for X.

problem is that personally, I'm a visual person- I find a lot of recipes by looking at the pictures on Pinterest, and lots of them are pinned from blog posts, not recipe sites. I need to see at least a couple pictures-- I don't like recipe sites because they DON'T all have photos.

I'm with ya, sistah. Please, you really do not have to have an entire photo teaching me how to measure and add salt. And then pepper.

That’s why I love the Paprika app. I don’t have to scroll. Just click the button and the app finds the recipe and saves it!

First, adblock. 

Second, I totally agree! ugh. There are blogs that have a button at the top that says "jump to recipe" or something like that. Those are my favorites. lol. Otherwise I just scroll straight to the bottom. 

My one exception to my general annoyance with recipe blogs is Urvashi Pitre's blog, Two Sleevers. Link below. First of all she has a "jump to recipe" box right at the top. But also she doesn't go on an on. She'll sometimes tell about her process of developing the recipe, like "the first time this happened, second time this did, but third time's the charm" or something like that. And often she'll give interesting information about Indian spices or dishes. And besides all that, she's a very nice person. And her videos are very informative.


Urvashi Pitre's blog Two Sleevers