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Re: "Purposing Extra Egg Yolks Am I part of one of the last..."
We had a Delia Smith cookbook that lived in permanent, solitary residence in a kitchen drawer in my childhood home. Now I've moved out, we definitely *collect* recipe books, but I rarely find myself cooking by recipe, and am not a fan of the common format of internet recipe (90% fluff up top, 10% recipe at bottom). Perhaps I should pick my books back up & choose the "resident book" for our kitchen...
Dec 04 · 13 days ago
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I love using LLMs for recipes. I can say what I want to make and whatever ingredients I have on hand and I almost always get good results.
I could get similar results by looking through online recipes but with LLMs I avoid all the extra fluff and just focus on the recipe, exactly as I want to make it.
Cookbooks are better than websites but can get damaged easily and take up space and definitely don’t have every single recipe I could ever want to make, with instructions on any adaptation I might care to make.
I'd take a good cook book over a web search any day.
👻 darkghost · Dec 04 at 21:53:
LLMs are ok as long as you ignore the instructions to add ten penny nails and arsenic. I despise the websites that have so much fluff and it takes forever to get to the recipe.
Anybody find good sources for recipes on Gemini? I found this one:
— Shaggy Peak's converted Meal Master database.
Purposing Extra Egg Yolks Am I part of one of the last generations that cooks depending on cookbooks instead of web searches? In our house, we a have a set of cookbooks that is the basis of everything we make, so much so, that last year I went to Powells Books in Portland and bought new copies of all our old cookbooks to replace the food-spattered, broken-spined versions we had! Anyway, after making Alton Brown's Aged Egg Nog (from his website, negating everything I just wrote above, I guess),...
💬 peteyboy [mod] · 8 comments · 3 likes · Dec 03 · 2 weeks ago