How do you decide which cookery books to get rid of?

[IretcyG]

I have loads and really need to cull
some. Think everything and every type.😖

sacrilege! You do not cull cookbooks even ones you never use. They are gems of potential, inspiration captured in paper, pure joy.

Simply build more shelves!

(I have over 150 at last count and may have a problem. I'm minimalist everywhere but the kitchen promise)

With my cull, I'm still standing at over 100 so am just making room for more!

This. I have tons where I love the person, style of food etc, open the book and am like no! I should get a grip!

I use the Whisk app (although I think it’s now Samsung) and have scanned the recipes I actually want to keep from books I don’t really use into notes on my phone and added them to it - cut mine down by about half over the last few months.

Now love his food, when he and his team cook it. I find with his and that genre I inevitably never have all the right ingredients in nor the time. So they might have to go, but Venn diagram so no. Love my Roasting Tins. Would keep all the Delia - so reliable. And Cranks. I am also a veggie. Also my slow cooker books - just a couple, but probably the most well used. I have got rid of my American books - it was all cup measurements. I had no idea until recently that its not any old cup, but is a formal measurement, well cant be bothered with that.

Don’t say that about Delia- Summer Cooking was just put in the cull pile!!! Just flicking through winter and the How to Cook series,find her books aren’t categorised well for me but she has some fab recipes. Her website might be the answer! Cranks is staying although it’s nearly falling apart but not sure about Cranks Entertaining. I’m going though my slow cooker books, most are a bit pants as involve a lot of pre cooking. Which are you keeping?

These are the slow cooker books. In reality I only cook 1 meat recipe fir the family from each so the storage ideas on the thread are really helpful.

These are my 2 piles - so inspired by this thread to get going on these. I might aim to lose the bookcase, just have the small shelf - that would ve progress! We've been working hard on other areas of the house so the books just get forgotten.

I’ve got a fair few from the shelf on the right. Bar the Delias I’d struggle to cull😅

Think I have the bottom one. Resisting the urge to Amazon search the top one. 🤣

I think I am developing an expensive habit of buying cookbooks from Instagram food influencers! I passed on Woks of Life to my sister as they were mostly meat dishes.

I have since aquired 3 more Instagram cookbooks -
Sanjana Feasts - her content always looks amazing, but her recipes are indeed a labour of love and requires dozens of ingredients that are usually hard to find in supermarkets.

Naturally Vegan - Julius Fiedler

Vegan Chinese Food - Yang Liu

I have actually made a few things from two of them, and intend to use them a bit more.

Chucked one away. Very disappointing. Too much meat in it and the Spag Carbonara had cream in it! It was too guys (not Bosh, older guys not the hairy Bikers either - before them) . I never heard of them. Don't really know why I bought it. Thankfully it was cheap. I do collect them though. Love reading through them!

I had a cull recently. Gave away some diet books that I've bought over the years and some I just never used. Copied one recipe for one book. Kept Delia. It was a present from my late husband. Also kept my first ever cook book and mums bero recipe book from the 1970s. Still in pounds and ounces!