Is cutting and pasting really a good answer for a recipe?!
Is cutting and pasting really a good answer for a recipe?
do you actually make the recipes you cut and paste- or does it just seem like a good answer-
I'm not being sarcastic- do you see a recipe and actually taste it just through visualizing it?
Answers:
Good question. I wrote my own cookbook. And the recipes I give to people are cut and paste from it unless someone asks for a particular recipe. Then I add the location or give credit to who or where it came from.
I love to cook. And to answer your question from my point of view. It is difficult to give a recipe from your memory, and be 100% accurate all the time. Plus I agree with you that if you see a recipe and visualize it to be good, then you try it first! Don't make us your test kitchen.
So if you have a tried and true recipe that fits the bill then by all means cut and paste.
I never cut and paste a recipe. I have only given people recipes that I have made and loved myself.
I personally use a lot of recipes off of food network and epicurious, and I try to pass on the ones I have tried and can actually attest to!
If it is a recipe that I am not familiar with, but am trying to find for someone, I DO taste it in my head...Is that crazy?...I will bypass a lot of recipes, because of either ingredients or technique. I do a lot of cooking, so I typically know what works and what doesn't.
I never want to give someone a recipe that I wouldn't make or haven't made, myself.
i cut and paste info from the internet for my hw and i get A's so im guessing its good
It's different for everyone. Some people are helping out by finding a recipe they think looks like a good one. For me, I might do something similar, but I look the recipe over first, and decide if I wanted to make this particular thing, if I'd try this recipe. Sometimes I look at something, and sort of rate the recipe... think how I'd make it and if I think it measures up to my personal standards. I'm sure some people just find one, copy it and paste it without giving it thought. I try to say something about the recipe I'm pasting. That's pretty much the only way you (the asker) can judge. I like to cook, and I like being creative, but I certainly haven't tried everything, and I'm better at some things than others. Sometimes I put my own recipes in too. Sometimes you know you can just trust the site it came from.
Yes, it has helped me alot..
Are you referring to people just writing words as opposed to putting a picture, or a link to a picture?
Some of the best cookbooks have no photos. I learned to cook when I was 7, and of course, at that age, pictures meant everything. In fact, the pics are what got me interested in cooking.
Now I am 40, and don't need photos to imagine a recipe.
As far as cut/paste on yahoo answers:
Everytime I ask for a recipe for something, I ask that people not just give me a recipe they found on the net. I can do that all by myself. I am looking for someone's personal favorite that they have actually made themselves.
Usually you can tell by the way the recipe is typed, whether it has been cut/pasted. (you can also tell when 10 answerers post the exact same wording, obviously)
I have never C & P'd a recipe (or anything else) unless the original text was mine to begin with.
I have posted recipes, but they've been copied from my own hard drive, and I've said so in my Answer. I also have recipes and related articles on my own web log, to which I've provided a link in some of my Answers.
Any recipe, or cooking-related advice, that I've ever posted on here has been tried and tested in my own kitchen.