Ask HN: Any cooking/recipe websites with good UX?

1 points by denvaar ↗ HN
I don't know what it is about cooking and recipe-focused websites. They seem to be some of the worst in terms of pop ups, and superfluous garbage content. I spend so much time searching for the actual content on most pages because there are so many links to other crap.

For example, check out this Betty Crocker page where there's about 300px of whitespace at the top, a huge useless picture of flour, and a navbar that doesn't quite stick to the top of the page (viewing on Firefox) https://www.bettycrocker.com/how-to/tipslibrary/charts-timetables-measuring/equivalent-measures-abbreviations

Another example is allrecipes.com. I think it fares pretty well on Desktop, but on my phone I notice they insert adds throughout the ingredient list and instructions. Also met with a full-screen popup from Amazon about Cyber Monday.

There's gotta be some plain and simple sites out there, and I'd like to hear about them.

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I feel like this site is the culmination of Web 2.0.
It's got Monero donations too, I'd consider it the culmination of Web 3.0 so far as well.
Wish more sites could be like this. I spent a few minutes just trying to find the ingredient list on a recipe earlier today.

It was hiding behind a "click to see more" that was gently tucked between someone's life story and a pile of ads.

I host my own recipes in txt format... but of course it doesn't automatically order the ingredients