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This is brilliant.

Can you also do it for amazon, so it cuts out all of the paid sponsored links for competing products and just gives me a link to the product I asked for?

uBlock Origin Element Zapper can do that in a point-and-click fashion.

(Presuming the site doesn't update/revise element identifiers frequently. See FB for one which apparently does this, per recent HN submissions.)

You just posted this yesterday. Why did you feel the need to post it again?
I swear someone tried to do this pre-llms and they got harangued out of existence by the content creators.
Every one of these sites already provides a print button that gives you just the recipe because they too know that the SEO spam they are forced to produce sucks
They should change it so only the Google bots see the SEO spam.
I built my own personal system for this as part of a custom “meal planning” app on my family intranet. Send a link of a random recipe to it (or a photo from your phone) and it strips out the ingredients and instructions and adds it to our own recipe system.

I love the idea of recipe sites and meal planning sites but like most of the web it’s all so user-hostile now that I don’t feel bad scraping stuff anymore. Short of a few exceptions which I do bookmark and visit, they’re all just taking recipes from other sites anyway and adding paragraphs of blogspam and/or AI slop to it.

Given it’s raison d’être, why does it add a slop summary in front of the recipe, in a different language, no less?