What do I cook when I'm sick? What should I bake for my neighbour's housewarming party? Gosh, how am I gonna amaze my future-in-laws? Searching for the perfect recipe can often be a very daunting task. Especially with all those cookbooks and newspaper snip-outs. Sometimes even searching for the perfect simple meal you always wanted online can also prove to be very difficult- being spoilt for choices.
Today we here at tastebudds shall try (note, 'try') our hand at educating you, our readership, on searching for your delectable 'one' via several recipe search engines. Numerous food blogs have sprung up from over the years, including ourselves although we believe that we're very much differentiated from the usual population *ahem*. There are also a couple of them who specialise their efforts solely on recipes alone, that have paid off for themselves and the many people who need the service. So many recipe engines to choose, too little time left to cook, tell me which one is best? We have singled down to three of our more preferred recipe databases and they are pretty easy to use as well.
To prove the functionalities of the three sites we have chosen, we will be testing them in search with a dish of the following elements: main course, chicken, asparagus, 1 hour cook time.
Allrecipes has a complete online resource center for all your gastronomical needs. They've got this very hand-dandy link that helps you look for recipes with the ingredients you already have saving you the effort of dressing up before going out to your nearest grocer which isn't very near. Allrecipes' Clipboard function is rather astounding. For people who are just out there to squander their time away have a choice of browsing through their recipe database and sorting them to "Recently Viewed Recipes", "Bookmarked Recipes" and "Shopping List Recipes". Of course you have to register with them first which is absolutely free. Their recipes tells you the amount of preparation time and cook time. You can even tell them how many guests you're serving and they'll scale the ratios for you. For the weak hearted or the diet conscious individuals, cholesterol counting is done for you. They've got lots more stuff, but I shan't spoil it for you go check it out yourself. Have fun!
result: Chicken and Asparagus Fettucine
Okay listen up, people who are allergic to gluten or wheat, or requires dishes to be low in calcium/sodium/whatever, Epicurious's recipe search is meant for you! Most of their recipes are taken from food magazines such as Gourmet and Bon Appetit. Just like Allrecipes, Epicurious also has for themselves a recipe box which performs more or less the same functions as Allrecipes' clipboard. However they have gone one step (or actually many more steps) further to provide restaurant reviews from Berlin to Washington DC.
result: Parmesan-Crusted Chicken and Asparagus with Sauce Maltaise
Fortunately/Unfortunately, Google has done it again with their Google Base. Google Base has somehow integrated recipe searching into part of their nifty search system. Honestly, they don't exactly have a recipes database. What they do is this: they index every recipe there is on the web and put them into their own search system. So in the very end you'd probably be getting recipes from every recipe website there is.
result: non-applicable.
So actually recipes aren't that all hard to search for online. Knowing what you want and where to get does the trick. But of course, sometimes they look overly professional that you really wonder if they can be done by a student cook (like yourself). So in that case, check out our own recipes section where the 'not-so-professional' chefs tell you what disasters you can potentially avoid and where else you can improve on. Sometimes grandma's old recipe book is the miracle and works best. Hope this helps.
Today we here at tastebudds shall try (note, 'try') our hand at educating you, our readership, on searching for your delectable 'one' via several recipe search engines. Numerous food blogs have sprung up from over the years, including ourselves although we believe that we're very much differentiated from the usual population *ahem*. There are also a couple of them who specialise their efforts solely on recipes alone, that have paid off for themselves and the many people who need the service. So many recipe engines to choose, too little time left to cook, tell me which one is best? We have singled down to three of our more preferred recipe databases and they are pretty easy to use as well.
To prove the functionalities of the three sites we have chosen, we will be testing them in search with a dish of the following elements: main course, chicken, asparagus, 1 hour cook time.
Allrecipes has a complete online resource center for all your gastronomical needs. They've got this very hand-dandy link that helps you look for recipes with the ingredients you already have saving you the effort of dressing up before going out to your nearest grocer which isn't very near. Allrecipes' Clipboard function is rather astounding. For people who are just out there to squander their time away have a choice of browsing through their recipe database and sorting them to "Recently Viewed Recipes", "Bookmarked Recipes" and "Shopping List Recipes". Of course you have to register with them first which is absolutely free. Their recipes tells you the amount of preparation time and cook time. You can even tell them how many guests you're serving and they'll scale the ratios for you. For the weak hearted or the diet conscious individuals, cholesterol counting is done for you. They've got lots more stuff, but I shan't spoil it for you go check it out yourself. Have fun!
result: Chicken and Asparagus Fettucine
Okay listen up, people who are allergic to gluten or wheat, or requires dishes to be low in calcium/sodium/whatever, Epicurious's recipe search is meant for you! Most of their recipes are taken from food magazines such as Gourmet and Bon Appetit. Just like Allrecipes, Epicurious also has for themselves a recipe box which performs more or less the same functions as Allrecipes' clipboard. However they have gone one step (or actually many more steps) further to provide restaurant reviews from Berlin to Washington DC.
result: Parmesan-Crusted Chicken and Asparagus with Sauce Maltaise
Fortunately/Unfortunately, Google has done it again with their Google Base. Google Base has somehow integrated recipe searching into part of their nifty search system. Honestly, they don't exactly have a recipes database. What they do is this: they index every recipe there is on the web and put them into their own search system. So in the very end you'd probably be getting recipes from every recipe website there is.
result: non-applicable.
So actually recipes aren't that all hard to search for online. Knowing what you want and where to get does the trick. But of course, sometimes they look overly professional that you really wonder if they can be done by a student cook (like yourself). So in that case, check out our own recipes section where the 'not-so-professional' chefs tell you what disasters you can potentially avoid and where else you can improve on. Sometimes grandma's old recipe book is the miracle and works best. Hope this helps.
0 Responses to “all of their bases are belong to us”
Leave a Reply