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Cooking & Baking

Bobstandard

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1. Was it an Instagram recipe?

Reply to mwmisses4289 (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2026, 11:33 AM

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I’ve given up trying recipes I find on Instagram and YouTube. I’m guessing that many of the ‘food influencers’ copy someone else’s recipe, make it once, then post it. That’s not so bad when they copy a legitimate cook’s published recipe, like one from Jacquy Pepin, or Martha Stewart, who actually test their recipes before publishing. Those work. But when they copy each other things go bad.

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Ugh, I hate when recipes fail. [View all] mwmisses4289 Monday OP

Was it an Instagram recipe? Bobstandard Monday #1

No it was from one the hundreds of thousands mwmisses4289 Monday #3

Those are the ones! Bobstandard Monday #4

I have actually found a few recipes from some of these bloggers that work. mwmisses4289 Monday #5

I love tomato Florentine soup and years ago, I found two recipes online MIButterfly Monday #2

For online recipes I usually look at several Old Crank Monday #6

I'm partial to old timey church cookbooks... Trueblue Texan Monday #7