Long winded recipes

[Meepmoop]

It seems like every time I look for recipes online or on Pinterest it can't just be the ingredients and the method I have to scroll through paragraphs of the writers life story and overly descriptive fluff about the food.

Am I being unreasonable and people actually like the fluff

I hate the fluff and always skip to the end where the actual recipe is.

Worse than the fluff is when they say "I sliced my vegetables using this very specific mandolin slicer which you can purchase from here, I will get a small percentage of the sales but really this particular slicer will make the good taste so much nicer" because of course it will.

I don't mind the fluff I feel it's good fluff - one of my favourite food websites is Smitten Kitchen and I love her blog posts as well as the recipes. But sometimes on other sites it's tedious and I just skip to the end. I can't get too mad about it though when I'm getting a free recipe.

I always skip the fluff, but I know someone who prefers the fluff to the actual recipe. I think there is a market for it.

Oh my yes. I hate looking up recipes only to have to scroll through an entire biography and dream journal vaguely related to the recipe. I don't care if the inspiration for this chickpea hotpot came to you during a vision quest in a yurt in the Andalusian mountains, just give me the damn recipe!

Nigella and her twee descriptions as well. One recipe of hers which I enjoy making (chocolate banana muffins) says to bake them until they are "proudly peeking out of their cases." Errr ok....