Mike D.Is there like a Wikipedia of recipes?
Good god, no, can you imagine the edit wars?
I use paprika 3 to extract and save recipes - works well enough that I eventually sprang for the paid version
I haven’t seen that one. I’ll check it out!
I have used Recipe keeper for years myself.
The main features I like are the ways to import recipes (web, photos and text) I can take a picture of a handwritten recipe and it will magically recreate it. It also has an app for windows, so laptops/tablets and my android phone all sync up. You can make your own cookbooks too.
How good is Recipe keeper with handwriting that is hard to read? And can it do more languages than English?
It does pretty well with my messy scrawl on scrap paper 😁
I used to have so many jotted down on the backs of envelopes or whatever I could find, and then on my fridge with magnets. It was a mess.
Of course I had to make some edits or changes, but for the most part it was amazing.
These are the languages so far ( also says in settings that if you would like them to support additional languages to email support )
+1 for paprika. Works like a charm. Other great features too. I have all my recipes with all of my personal tweaks/notes from the past 10 years in there. Also, all of my ‘special occasion’ meal planning goes through there.
I’m probably old-school, but you may also find you get some good use out of cookbooks if you find good/reliable ones. They’re also kind of fun to browse/explore once you have faith in the source.
A few I’d recommend: The Food Lab America’s Test Kitchen Good Eats
If there’s a cuisine you favor you, you might try finding a commonly recommended book or author in that area.
Based.cooking
The gatekeepers of the website are like big babies towards “unbased food trends” like vegetarian or vegan stuff.
Basically anything that could not be found in a 18th century inn is unbased for them.
Otherwise a great idea for a site tho.
There used to be paper encyclopedias of food. They were called something like… cookbook or something. Joking aside, i thought it would be nice to have a wikibook cookbook, so i went to check. And there is.
The problem with community-edited cookbooks is that you end up with multiple recipes for the same dish. I just searched for hummus on such a site and got 246 results. It has become useless over the years.
Something happened to online recipes over the past few years. They all follow this very painful almost identical format now, smattered with ads. There is usually a link up top to go to recipe which helps jump to what you actually wanted to see.
As mentioned, paprika is a good extracter and archive and also does portion ratios for you.