Y’know when you find a recipe online, whether via Google or by following a link in an Instagram post, let’s say, and (at best) you have to scroll past 14,000 step-by-step photos about how to cut an onion sprinkled with advertising after every paragraph/photo, or (at worst) also do battle with a myriad of pop-up videos?
Sometimes there’s a “Jump To Recipe” button, which at least saves a ton of scrolling, but still…
Well, I have a trick for you!
- Copy that entire URL
- Type cooked.wiki into your browser, followed by a forward slash (/), and
- Paste that entire URL
Not only do you spare yourself all the BS, but you also get a lovely, organized, formatted recipe with a link to a printable PDF.
GAME CHANGER!!
My next trick is something I use all the time when I know I won’t remember, like… What is it that I type before the URL of a recipe to skip all the BS?
I compose an email, usually with a subject line that makes it easy to find/search, which automatically gets saved in Drafts. Your mileage may vary, but this works for me because it won’t get lost in a notebook or on a slip of paper, which I may or may not have handy at any given time (and definitely not when I need it), and my email is as close as my phone (which is usually very close).
I have draft emails with various lists (Christmas, To-do, Bucket), TSA pre-check numbers, a few recipes, things that I need to share often, yarn weight substitutions, and links to last-minute availability calendars of my favorite get-away spots — stuff like that.
The draft emails get culled every now & then, but I can’t tell you how often that little trick has spared/saved me.
Another little “trick” to share for all you poetry lovers that I just read about yesterday, and that’s only valid for a few more days: Oregon’s Telepome Poetry Hotline @ 503-928-7008. You can call every day of National Poetry Month (this month) to hear a daily poem! The hotline was created by Oregon’s poet laureate, Anis Mojgani. You can read all about it here.
That’s all I got. Tomorrow’s my day off… so HAPPY WEEKEND!!
THANK YOU! Those are so aggravating. Someone invent and/or use a “Get to the Recipe” button.
Scrolling through all that recipe bs is one of my pet peeves, so thank you! I know it’s a first world problem, but still irritating. I’ve got the email in my drafts folder all ready to try the next time.
What a great tip, Vicki! I just hate all the rigamarole ahead of the recipe. . . (so much so that I often will just not bother). And your draft folder idea is a good one!
Thanks for the great tips!