I want a cheese dip. I'm giving allrecipes.com a chance. I'm now looking at a pile of horribly written recipes that want me to use things like Velveeta, and cream of mushroom soup, instead of actual cheese.
It even has a recipe for baby food made with Campbell's cream-of-sodium. And 16 'Tater Tot' recipes. 645 with cream of mushroom, never mind other cream-of. 14 'Spam.' 128 recipes with frozen hash browns as an ingredient. 60 using potato chips. 55 'Miracle Whip.' Etc.
The recipes are often poorly written; when an ingredient does not come from a box in the freezer or a tin, it's ambiguous junk like '18 small potatoes' in lieu of the weight. 'Garlic salt' in lieu of fresh garlic -- the emphasis is on convenience/junk food. It's an amateur, un-edited mess.
It's mostly stuff like this:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Easy-Pea-Salad/Detail.aspx
Disgusting.
I'm sure there are a few good recipes on the site, but it's not worth wading through the garbage. What's the appeal??
2006-10-26 14:28:34 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
I don't use Allrecipes that often, I don't care much for it either, I like www.recipesource.com or www.recipelink.com...
2006-10-26 14:33:34 · answer #1 · answered by Just Me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. There are some good recipes, but I don't think anyone tests them before they go on the site (well, except the poster, and that's a maybe). Even looking for recipes on someplace like Yahoo! answers may not give you a good answer, because people all have different tastes.
I belong to a foodie conference over at Baen publishing's website, and I think belonging to a relatively small food chat group is the best way to go. You can get to know people and their tastes, and have more trust in their recommendations that way. You also see many recipes by the same person over time, so you can tell who is the from-nature-cook-mama, and who's the "queen of cans." It's more work, but you really get what you put in.
2006-10-26 21:36:05 · answer #2 · answered by Madame M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everyone can use substitutions for what you don't like. I agree there are plenty of recipes on this site which use ingredients I personally wouldn't consider eating however, the ideas sometimes jolt an awareness of how to prepare a dish using simple ingredients one has at hand. You would probably like the recipes found at http://www.epicurious.com. The recipes have sources from "Bon Apetit," "Gourmet," "Good Housekeeping," etc. These recipes call for more exotic ingredients & are usually more labor intensive but the work is (almost) always worth it.
2006-10-26 21:52:47 · answer #3 · answered by curiousgeorge 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've also found it difficult to find a good recipes on the Internet. A good site that I have found is the Recipe Search on the Australian Woman's' Weekly website. The link is below:
Recipe search
Search for more than 5000 recipes from The Australian Women's Weekly magazine, cookbooks, and the Fresh cooking show. Simply enter a keyword and hit the search button. To narrow your search, choose from any number of the drop down options. To inspire you, we've provided some suggestions below.
http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/recipesearch.aspx
Hope this helps!
2006-10-26 22:08:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love allrecipes. I use them a lot. Although I won't look at any recipe that doesn't have 4-5 stars and a bunch of reviews. I always read the reviews first to see if people suggest any changes.
99% of the time I alter the recipe to use what I have on hand or prefer anyway.
I enjoy the recipes on the forums at http://www.copykat.com as well.
2006-10-27 13:42:25 · answer #5 · answered by totsandtwins04 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cheese dip is crap in general, any recipe. I guess it depends on what you are looking for. I have pulled wonderful recipes from there and only about 3 bad ones and rated them as such. You can do an ingredient search saying what you want and don't want. But remember most of America relies on easy recipes and the recipes are sent in by homemakers.
2006-10-26 21:34:23 · answer #6 · answered by Janna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have used it many times and check the reviews before I choose a recipe. I've had very good luck with it and never made anything with the crap you are referring to, I guess you have to choose carefully no matter which site you are on.
2006-10-27 00:27:25 · answer #7 · answered by Lake Lover 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Personally I like the website. If the recipe is crappy the cooks will tell you, it has a user ratings. They will tell you what is good or bad about the recipe. if it doesnt have any ratings then dont use it.
2006-10-26 21:39:50 · answer #8 · answered by yournotalone 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
~*~Do you get this emotional over everything in life? I don't know you, but yet I'm concerned about you. Pick your battles, it causes less stress for you, & possibly everyone else you come in contact with. If you don't like the site, it's simple, don't use it! There's certainly enough to go around for everyone, & then some! Good luck......& chill a bit!
2006-10-26 23:08:32 · answer #9 · answered by dlcarnall 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have heard of this site but have not triedit. I like www.cooks.com. It is really easy to use.
2006-10-26 21:31:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋