Same. And I really despise the videos. Just give me the damn recipe.

I agree. Just went through that today myself and was thinking the same thing. Maybe new cooks do need all the instructions but I don't want or need them.

I also hate blogs of any kind. But I don't usually have a problem finding an actual recipe site rather than a blog.

hahaha, that was funny.

Dawn: YES YES YES! The review thing drives me mad! I used to post recipes on recipezaar, but when my 4 ingredient chip dip(cream cheese,grated onion with juice,green olive brine and chopped black olives) entitled "cream cheese olive dip" got a review that said they replaced the cream cheese with brie and left the olives and olive brine out(because they hated olives of course) and it was horrible because it didnt blend well and tasted like onions, I was DONE. I actually had to request the review be taken down,which they did gladly. I mean, did they just put brie and onions in the mixer and try to eat it on chips???? How is that my fault? Grrrr. That person may have benefited from a step by step picture guide......

OMGosh, amylou, that must have been so annoying! It's too bad reviews can't be left for the people doing the reviews. Grrrrrrr...

I remember recipezaar well and actually posted a couple of recipes there myself. Used to love the forums; kind of a sad day when they did away with it all.

Yep, those are probably the people who need the step by step by step guides!

:-)

What bugs me though, is that after you get through all the preamble rigmarole and finally find the recipe the blogger doesn't provide a "print" option. So then I have to cut and paste or block it out and try to print and hopefully I don';t wind up printing 8 pages of stuff that I don't need or want.

But I have to admit, googling 3 ingredients and finding a recipe that works with those 3 ingredients plus normal stuff I have in the fridge can be a lifesaver some nights when imagination has deserted me when thinking of something for dinner.

I'm with ya on the review idiots! How can a person change the entire recipe up and then give a review? Do they just like to hear themselves talk? UGH!

The cooking blogs don't bother me, that's just what a blog is. It would be a very boring "blog" if it didn't tell you a story. I'm not a fan of blogs personally but if I go to someone's blog to get a recipe, I expect that there's going to be lots of blabbering about the recipe. Telling us about how Aunt Maple used to make this recipe every time they came to a party and wouldn't give her the recipe because it was top secret so she worked for years trying to master the recipe and finally after 30 years, she got it just right. :)

Oh yeah. I'm often ready to quit before I can even find the recipe. Sometimes I doubt there is even a recipe in there. And it'd be one thing if it was a pic of a finished dish, or if it was a pic that was essential to the dish, like what the batter will look like when it's properly mixed. But most of that stuff is so superfluous. Makes me crazy too.

OK, that made me laugh out loud.

I'm sure they put the useful info at the end, so you'll have to scroll through the whole blog and see all the ads. Eyes on the page brings revenue.

I follow one particularly, and I just automatically jump to the end of the page, then scroll back up.

My little ipad is getting old so the picture heavy sites really slows things down. I feel your pain.

The videos drive me up the wall, too; the other day I heard myself yell "Just how many pictures do I need of you breaking a #@^*~ egg!"

I just scroll all the way down till I get to the recipe..........it is annoying though. As for recipe sites with reviews, I prefer them and read a good lot of the reviews. I do find it amusing when someone has completely changed the recipe and then gives their own recipe a lousy review. Sometimes the hints people give to improve a recipe are very helpful and I take them into consideration.

LOL this bothers me less now that I'm into retirement and can waste all day on the interwebs if I feel like it.

It drives me nuts too. While sometimes some pics can be helpful... most of them aren't, nor are the lengthy descriptions of the recipe background. I get irritated with cookbooks that are like that too- 2-3 pages of backstory, pictures of people standing around the kitchen laughing while making the dish, pics of auntie whomever the recipe came from, pics of the dish.. then what feels like almost an afterthought of "oh by the way, here's the recipe".

I mentioned that on my thread about cooking magazines. I don't need to see 3 pics of someone's fingers sprinkling salt!

Thankfully, the 'end' button takes me to the bottom of the page. I can skip by all the bull---t and get to the recipe itself.

For that reason I despise Pinterest. It takes me to blog after blog trying to find the recipe of a pic that caught my interest. Often, I never find it. I don't even try.

I feel the same way when someone asks me for a recipe and then tell me it didn't turn out....and then tell me all the changes they made to it. When I cook something from a recipe, I follow it closely. And ditto about all the photos and steps in recipe blogs. Just give me the recipe. I can figure it out. If I can't, then I probably don't need to be cooking it anyway. I do get a lot of recipes from Pinterest, but I get really frustrated when it is so hard to find the recipe sometimes.

You Tube, Chef John. He's awesome.

The picture steps seem to be very popular. It does probably help someone who hasn't cooked much. I don't mind them at all, I just scroll past without looking to the actual recipe. One of my favorites does the pictures. There have been a lot of new bloggers starting to be on her page also (I guess she is also on theirs). The ones by Elise Bauer is the original blogger.

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/

Ha ha and so true

I hate it when recipe sites ask you to register. Heck, I don't want to remember a password if I want to make quiche! Just post the recipes (for free) and let people comment afterwards, or tell your story how the recipe was handed diwn from your great great great whatver.

I am nearly incapable of following a recipe exactly. Even when it is one of my own that I have carefully written down. I'll sub something, or increase or decrease the amount of some ingredient. When I'm looking for a new recipe, either one I've heard of but never really made, or (like blfenton above) where I have three ingredients that need to be used, and I'm looking for inspiration, I'll generally google around, read four or five recipes to get the sense of a dish, and then improvise from there. Or if it is something really out of my wheelhouse, I might faithfully follow the recipe (more or less) that looks best to me the first time I make it.

I have no problem if a site requires you to register to post comments, since I'm not ever going to make a comment on some random-found internet recipe anyway. I do mind places that require you to register simply to read a recipe, but that is what the back button is for.

I'm also not overly bothered by some of the inane comments on recipes that many here dislike, but mostly because I don't value them at all, and rarely ever read them. Oftentimes with the ad-blocking and the script-blocking I use the comments section won't ever even load.

I agree, I hate to scroll and scroll just to find the ingredients. BUT I love the comments -- i don't call them reviews. It's helpful when somebody says I didn't have brie but I used grated cheddar and it was good. I'm capable of following the recipe and nobody makes me look at the comments.

I totally agree with disliking all the prefacing and pictures. I like and expect Ree Drummond to do that, and I can just hear her talking. But I think a lot of other people just try to copy it in some formulaic way, not succeeding as well. Sometimes I think the comments are unnecessary (I'm all like, that can't be all that hard, it's just pie dough), when they're actually right though. So I do read them. I made this yesterday morning in lieu of brunch or breakfast since there was a lot to do. Is graduation over yet?! I really should've expected the dough to be hard to work with when everyone said it. And that it was worth it. I'm glad I only made four total as my son ate them one after another.

I guess I'm the odd one out. I love reading the story behind the recipes, and I enjoy the pictures. I like this so much better than a straight recipe printing.

The owners of the blogs that I follow have consistently fantastic recipes, and I appreciate their hard work perfecting and publishing them, and I'm happy to support their efforts. I think it's a bit entitled to expect those recipes presented in a way that doesn't benefit the authors. They need to eat too, and they devote a lot of time and effort into collecting, reviewing and presenting the recipes for our own enjoyment.

I do agree though that it's very annoying when people rate a recipe poorly when they didn't follow through recipe. I change recipes all the time but I would never judge it based on those changes.