Punchfork
July 26, 2011 5:55 PM   Subscribe

Punchfork makes it easier to find the best new recipes from popular sites like 101 Cookbooks, The Pioneer Woman, Epicurious, Serious Eats, Food Network and The Kitchn. Punchfork uses real-time data like tweets and Facebook shares to measure which recipes are grabbing the attention of users. Our proprietary rating system assigns each recipe a popularity score from 1 to 100. The higher a recipe's score, the more it has been talked about and shared on the web. Traditional recipe sites list page after page of search results in no discernible order. With Punchfork, you see only the highest quality recipes, presented in a beautiful magazine-like visual layout.
posted by puny human (11 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request, will do over tomorrow. -- jessamyn



 
Probably need quotes around the bit that's, like, quoting them.

Not terribly different than Tastespotting or Food Gawker (though they host the recipes in the same place here), but for different, I'm really loving Gojee for random food inspiration.
posted by disillusioned at 6:02 PM on July 26, 2011



this homemade nutella looks nice
posted by puny human at 6:02 PM on July 26, 2011


Neat. I like how you can see the ingredients lists on the site so you can decide whether it's worth it to click over to the original blog.
posted by that's how you get ants at 6:05 PM on July 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


I, for one, welcome our new short depth of field overlords.

Snark aside, I like the site. Very meta.
posted by mcstayinskool at 6:06 PM on July 26, 2011


Nice find...thanks..
posted by tomswift at 6:18 PM on July 26, 2011


Looks like an awesome site, but yeah, the post itself really needs some quotation marks.
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell at 6:22 PM on July 26, 2011


Too bad there does not appear to be any feeds. Otherwise, I'd love to follow. :(
posted by jsled at 6:30 PM on July 26, 2011


First of all, "popular" does not necessarily equal "good". People have different tastes, and I don't necessarily share popular taste in cooking. I use epicurious frequently, and probably the most useful feature for me is reading the individual reviews for tips on how the posters modified the recipe to their tastes. I think that is better than relying on number ratings or "trending", because it allows me more information about what criteria a recipe is being judged on. How hot does the poster like their food? How salty? What ethnic cuisines do they like? Etc.

The text in this post sounds like ad copy rather than an accurate description of punchfork by a disinterested party.

Traditional recipe sites list page after page of search results in no discernible order.

Um, just no. Most recipe sites that I am aware of, including epicurious (which is used by punchfork), allow you to sort the search results by criteria such as rating, name, date added, etc. and to refine search results by ingredient(s) used, course, season, etc.
posted by parrot_person at 6:32 PM on July 26, 2011


In short, punchfork takes away information I find useful, and adds information that I do not.
posted by parrot_person at 6:33 PM on July 26, 2011


jsled: Too bad there does not appear to be any feeds. Otherwise, I'd love to follow. :(

I noticed that, too, jsled. I also tried to scroll down to the bottom of the the page to find a feed link and realized it's one of those terrible never-ending websites. When did "previous page" links go out of style?
posted by that's how you get ants at 6:34 PM on July 26, 2011


Two words: Kwanzaa cake.
posted by mubba at 6:45 PM on July 26, 2011


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