The recipes they have from Gourmet seem to me to be the best large collection of online recipes: diverse, well-written, tested, proofread, and forthright in their descriptions of each dish. They often have helpful user reviews as well. Some recipes tend to be more time consuming or require rare ingredients or equipment. But generally I'm relieved if (assuming I've already exhausted my proper cookbooks) Google gives me an Epicurious/Gourmet recipe as opposed to another site. The Bon Appetit, Shape, and other recipes on Epicurious aren't as uniformly good.
What are other sites that you do prefer? I'd be happy to discover something better.
Cooks Illustrated is pretty much the only website I regularly pull recipes from. I've taken some things from eG, since so many pros used to be on there. On the rare occasions that I ask Google to find a recipe, I'll take a FoodTV recipe if it's from a show by someone who actually owns a restaurant.
The rest of the Internet is rife with people who think mayonnaise goes in Caesar Salad.
The recipes they have from Gourmet seem to me to be the best large collection of online recipes: diverse, well-written, tested, proofread, and forthright in their descriptions of each dish. They often have helpful user reviews as well. Some recipes tend to be more time consuming or require rare ingredients or equipment. But generally I'm relieved if (assuming I've already exhausted my proper cookbooks) Google gives me an Epicurious/Gourmet recipe as opposed to another site. The Bon Appetit, Shape, and other recipes on Epicurious aren't as uniformly good.
What are other sites that you do prefer? I'd be happy to discover something better.