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I absolutely hate this. I will make a new recipe exactly as written, in order to accurately evaluate it.
After that, I will either give it a pass forever, or always make it as written, or tweek it a little as I see fit.
When I give someone a recipe, it is already perfect. Why would they change it without trying the original first?
I agree..the ratings should be on the recipe as written....then you can make changes. I hate having to go through at least 20 reviews to see if I need to tweak the original recipe before I even try the original recipe.
There is one site that is so bad...people rate it without even trying it. They just rate it if they "think" it will be bad or good.
Don't bother sugar coating it for me. When it comes to recipes, I want the truth.
People go to these sites to get some ideas for dinner. It's only natural that they'll end up tweaking recipes to their personal taste or the current contents of their refrigerators.
I consider the comments people leave to be more interesting and helpful than the star rating, which I barely pay attention to.
OH, I find the comments and tweaks useful, but more useful when they've actually made the recipe actually resembling the original one. That doesn't bother me so much, but the ones that are clearly trying to show what wonderful cooks they are and are using someone else's recipe to do that? Not impressed and wonder why they seem to think it might be impressive to anyone.
As someone said above, you post a recipe, and someone reviews it. If you don't like the recipe so much that you're going to change EVERY SINGLE THING in it (or even most of them), then post your own danged recipe, don't claim that you made the recipe that you're purportedly reviewing. You're not fooling anybody.
People go to these sites to get some ideas for dinner. It's only natural that they'll end up tweaking recipes to their personal taste or the current contents of their refrigerators.
I consider the comments people leave to be more interesting and helpful than the star rating, which I barely pay attention to.
I find the comments in the reviews extremely helpful. I usually read them all before I try the recipe, and will often use the suggestions in the reviews the first time I try a recipe.
I really don't care for the recipe sites that don't have reviews. I want the feedback from real people before I spend the time and money on a new recipe.
I know what you mean thl. I have been a member of Allrecipes since back when could post a recipe "review" without assigning stars. This was so much better than the current system of being forced to truly rate the recipe to post about it.
For many years I was one of the featured Top Ten reviewers on Allrecipes.com. Many of my reviews are still top reviews on many recipes (with thousands of likes). In all of those I would plainly indicate if I combined the suggestions in the other reviews/comments in making the recipe. I receive(d) many positive comments about providing the most popular "tweaks".
However, the ones that so clearly are not thoughtful reviewers and low raters drive me batty!
OH, I find the comments and tweaks useful, but more useful when they've actually made the recipe actually resembling the original one. That doesn't bother me so much, but the ones that are clearly trying to show what wonderful cooks they are and are using someone else's recipe to do that? Not impressed and wonder why they seem to think it might be impressive to anyone.
As someone said above, you post a recipe, and someone reviews it. If you don't like the recipe so much that you're going to change EVERY SINGLE THING in it (or even most of them), then post your own danged recipe, don't claim that you made the recipe that you're purportedly reviewing. You're not fooling anybody.
Well. If that's what they are trying to do - ie, show they are wonderful cooks, then I totally got it wrong. I thought the people who mess up the recipes were truly bad cooks, with little interest in cooking, and no idea of what ingredients go together.
I find the comments in the reviews extremely helpful. I usually read them all before I try the recipe, and will often use the suggestions in the reviews the first time I try a recipe.
I really don't care for the recipe sites that don't have reviews. I want the feedback from real people before I spend the time and money on a new recipe.
I find the reviews and the tweaking to be helpful. I want to know beforehand if a sauce will come out watery unless it is thickened...
Yes and yes! It is so irritating when people write that they didn't have salt so they substituted sugar. They didn't have wine so they substituted vinegar. They wanted to cut the fat, so they left out the cream and then complain that the recipe was tasteless.
I always make the recipe as stated the first time. I may tinker around with it later but unless I follow it correctly the first time, I have no idea if it is a good recipe or not.
This is exactly what I do. First time is as written. After that, I can adjust it, tweak it, or make whatever substitutions I like. But I can't do any of that if I don't make it as it was written at least once.
I find the reviews and the tweaking to be helpful. I want to know beforehand if a sauce will come out watery unless it is thickened...
That's not the kind of tweaking anyone is referring to - that would be a real review to say that the recipe's sauce needed thickening. The kind of non-review review I object to is the kind where without ever trying the original recipe as written, someone substitutes darn near everything, including things that make no sense at all, and then blasts the recipe for not working out.
It reminds me of an elderly friend of mine who would tell me she had had to sew the same button back on her coat five times because no one knew how to make good quality clothes any more.
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