slo’s FRIDAY 10/20 poll - Cookbooks vs. Online Recipe Websites

[slo]

I’m really looking forward to your reply’s to this poll.

What do you use for your recipes?
Cookbook (homemade, paper/hard cover or ebook) or Online Website or Both?
(multiple choice)

*Please post your favorite cookbook (paper)
*Please post your favorite cookbook (ebook)
*Please post your favorite website(s)


For Me…..I use all the choices. I do use online websites the most, due to me making my weekly meal plan at work and my books aren’t there.
*My favorite cookbooks - my homemade one that i wrote the recipes in and a Marshall Fields cookbook from 30 years ago.
*My favorite ebook - Fix it & Forget it Favorite Slow Cooker Recipes For Dad
*My favorite online websites - Pinterest, Allrecipes, Kraft Food & Family, Betty Crocker and Campbell’s. After seeing the top 8 websites in the picture, I’m going to check them out - maybe I’ll find a new favorite.

 

[Micca]

I use on-line recipes, they come from various websites that I couldn't even name but I'm sure they're probably among the top recipe sites.

 

[Kitty 34]

mostly index cards

 

[bobbiwoz]

I used to love to read cookbooks! I did this to try to find recipes we would like. I have recipes on index cards in a file box, I use internet, some of the top 8 you mentioned, and some others. Tonight I will be making Chicken stroganoff from

https://therecipecritic.com/slow-cooker-chicken-mushroom-stroganoff/

I also go to companies websites to try to alter things like Jiffy mixes.

 

[Wood Nymph]

I have a nice box of index cards which have some of my favorite recipes from both cookbooks and websites. I also use several cookbooks that are marked with adjustments and notes for my favorite recipes. I also have a few recipes that I cut out of the newspaper. My sister-in-law put together a spiral bound book of her mother's favorite recipes.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Ha ha i I have the same Betty Crocker cookbook you do I absolutely love that cookbook it’s got some great recipe sent it
I mostly use my recipe cards they’re really old recipes if I want something different I just Google it and then pick something off the Internet that I think sounds good nine times out of 10 it’s from Pinterest or Tasty or one of those types of sites

 

[snowwite]

I’m really looking forward to your reply’s to this poll.

What do you use for your recipes?
Cookbook (homemade, paper/hard cover or ebook) or Online Website or Both?
(multiple choice)

*Please post your favorite cookbook (paper)
*Please post your favorite cookbook (ebook)
*Please post your favorite website(s)


For Me…..I use all the choices. I do use online websites the most, due to me making my weekly meal plan at work and my books aren’t there.
*My favorite cookbooks - my homemade one that i wrote the recipes in and a Marshall Fields cookbook from 30 years ago.
*My favorite ebook - Fix it & Forget it Favorite Slow Cooker Recipes For Dad
*My favorite online websites - Pinterest, Allrecipes, Kraft Food & Family, Betty Crocker and Campbell’s. After seeing the top 8 websites in the picture, I’m going to check them out - maybe I’ll find a new favorite.

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My mom gave me that book when I moved out at 18. She got me Good Housekeeping one when I got married at 21. I still use those. I also love my old church cookbook. It was hand typed in the 70’s on construction paper and tied together with yarn. I remember helping to make them for the fair. The ladies are all gone now. The building was replaced by a condo and a parking lot. But their recipes live on.

 

[_19disnA]

I like the foodnetwork site since it is easy to search and the recipes have all been tested in their kitchens for accuracy. I stopped using Allrecipes since that site was created by combining a number of other older sites. Many of those sites allowed for direct posting and recipes have obvious errors either in ingredient quantities or the directions. They have no test kitchen and it appears it is an editorial process where the staff reads the recipes before posting new ones. Why waste your time/money making a defective recipe?

Youtube also has a lot of really good recipes where you can watch the chef making it and explaining what they are doing. I tend to avoid personal blogs/websites/home cooks who often don't do a very good job with their recipes, assume various things about what they are doing or show themselves making something where the posted recipe doesn't agree. I also don't care to read their long/rambly story about their history/family or how they came up with some recipe.

America's test kitchen (they go by some other name now) also has a good website/cookbook. I like how they explain the modifications they made when perfecting a recipe. You can't just throw a bunch of ingredients together and expect consistent results, particularly with cakes/pastries/cookies.

 

[GAN]

I've got a couple good cookbooks -but Lidia's Italy is the bible. I don't use any specific websites -wherever Google leads me works....

 

[Meriweather]

I use a lot of the choices....almost all.
I have binders with recipes I have written or printed over the years, index cards with older recipes, a wide variety of books.
I use my binders the most. I add recipes to them that I think we will like from various websites. Try them, keep or toss the recipes.
My favorite books are Mrs. Fields Cookies, Country Cookie Cookies and also a bar Cookie one. Fix It and Forget it Diabetic Cookbook.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

I prefer online sites, but my favorite cookbook is How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman, which I mentioned in yesterday’s poll, too.

My favorite online sites: Allrecipes, Natasha’s Kitchen, Chef Billy Parisi, The Stay at Home Chef, Pioneer Woman.

 

[easyas123]

I voted other -
We use cookbooks on occassion, we use recipes online on occassion, and once in a while we will print out and put a online recipe in a binder we keep w/ the cookbooks.

 

[Babs Johnson]

I use both printed cookbooks and websites.

Yes to Allrecipes and Food Network, but some of the best internet recipes come from oddball sites such as (fictional) Samantha’s Cupboard or other weird names.

Most of those have a novel of personal information that I couldn’t care less about before the recipe appears. If there is no „Skip to Recipe” I don’t bother reading.

 

[Dan Murphy]

What little cooking I do, no real recipes. Marie likes to use recipes she gets from others.

 

[Skywalker3]

I don't cook nearly as much as I used to, but for holidays, I"m pulling out Mama's recipes from my box of index cards, (always warms my heart to see the recipes in her handwriting,) from magazines, newspapers, and a couple of cookbooks.
More often though, we're looking online and using that. Usually it's something Southern, so using a recipe from someone or some site like that.

 

[Schneewittchen37]

I picked homemade cookbook, paperback/hardcover cookbook and Other.

I'll start with the paperback/hardcover cookbook - I've got two favorites, the 1997 Joy of Cooking for everday basics and my real favorite, The Anniversary Slovak-American Cook Book (1952), for ethnic stuff. My grandmother had a copy. My mother (terrible cook) ended up with it, never used it and lost it. So I bought myself a copy when I got married and have been using it ever since. Over the years, my father has bought me several other Slovak American cookbooks and I've found a few too, but the original is my favorite. I think I need to get my brother a copy for Christmas. He's a professional cook and would probably appreciate it (though my SIL is a vegetarian ).

Next, I'll talk about Other. I clip and use recipes from the backs of cans and packages. Goya, Campbells, PA Dutch, whatever, if it looks good, I'll try it once. And maybe keep it. And then adjust it over time.

Finally, DH and I have a little black note book. The spine cracked years ago, so DH duct taped it. A continuation of OTHER. It's full of tried and true recipes from the backs of cans and such that have evolved over time. It's also full of recipes from friends, etc. There's a really nice Akron Sauerkraut Ball recipe in there that I got from DH's former boss. Hmm, I should make some soon.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I tend to cook on instinct...trying to replicate things I've had in restaurants, but sometimes refer to online recipes for guidance, especially on trouble spots. I didn't really know there was a ranking of the top recipe websites. It makes sense but if I need a recipe, I just usually Google what I'm looking for, browse the best rated recipe results, and see which skills and ingredients involved best suit my abilities/preferences as well as labor/time preferences at the moment.

Baking is a different story. Baking is more of an exact science and I'm more likely to follow a recipe step by step. Still, it's critical to know what stages of the process should look, feel and taste like since so many chefs still do like Grandma and fudge a few of the measurements or ingredients. It's also helpful if you want to modify a recipe.

Example- There's a spiced apple pound cake recipe that has been my go-to for nearly 15 years. It's got great flavor and it's nice and dense, which is perfect for cake sculpting and heavier base cakes. I have always suspected that the recipe is off by one egg and the amount of baking powder is off...so I play with it. I also know I can do things like add baking soda and reduce my egg ratio if I want it fluffier. I also realized early on that I could substitute certain wet and dry ingredients to change the flavoring. One of the most successful cases...using the spiced apple cake recipe to make a coffee flavored cake. A cup of apple cider was swapped out for a cup of ultra strong coffee and tablespoons of apple pie spice were swapped out for fine cut coffee grounds. Everything else in the recipe remained the same. Throw in some mocha frosting instead of the spiced cream cheese frosting and it's perfect!

 

[disneychrista]

A mix of things. When I went to make something I will search for a recipe online usually. I might look something up in the cook book once in awhile. I’ll also just throw something together without a recipe as well.

 

[soccerdad72]

Mostly online these days - I don't have a particular website I go to. Mostly, I google a recipe and scan through a few versions before picking one. I'd say the majority of time, it's probably one of the main online sources for recipes, just not intentionally.

We have a number of printed cookbooks, but very rarely do we use them anymore.

 

[Tink-osophy]

I use a mix of books (print and handwritten) and online recipes. I don't visit any particular websites (no idea which are the most popular) --- I usually search according to the dish or ingredients.

Online, it can be frustrating when a recipe I really like the look of is only in US format, but more, these days, use a conversion tool.

Thinking about it, a lot of my regular recipes are ones I found in innocuous places, small cheaper recipe books and low-key sites. I think, I like simple recipes, which I can, then, play around with.