I love cooking food, but these damn online recipe websites have always been driving me insane.
Ads stacked on ads. Videos that start playing before the page loads. A 2,000-word personal essay about a holiday in Tuscany before you see a single ingredient.
So I built something about it.
Recipe data cannot be copyrighted. Ingredients, method, timings are factual information. They belong to everyone. So I built a crawler that extracts exactly that and discards everything else. A couple of days later I had a fully distributed architecture on Cloudflare at roughly 1/100th the cost of a conventional AWS setup.
Recipe websites are broken. You search for pasta carbonara and get a 2,000-word essay before you see a single ingredient.
Reduced Recipes fixes that. We crawl the web, extract just the recipe - ingredients, method, timings - and throw everything else away. 170,000+ recipes from across the world, stripped clean. No ads, no stories, no account required.
Just the recipe. Finally.
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