What To Look For In A Good Recipe 

If you love to cook (or even if you don’t – in fact, perhaps especially if you don’t!), you’re going to need a good recipe to guide you. Yes, you can make your own dishes up yourself, and that’s a lot of fun, but sometimes, when you want to be sure of getting it right, a recipe is absolutely vital. But how can you know you’re choosing a good recipe that’s going to actually give you a tasty result? Read on to find out what you should be looking for. 

Plenty Of Detail

A good recipe should have plenty of detail in it so that by the time you get to the end of it, you don’t have any questions about what you should be doing or how any particular element is included. The more detail the recipe writer has included, the less of a struggle it’s going to be to make sense of things, and that makes life easier for you, plus it shows that the writer cares about the recipe and the outcome because they’ve put in the effort – a good example of a site where you can see this is the case is Chocolates & Chai, which is packed full of great recipes to try out. 

So what do we mean by detail? Look for recipes that provide clear and concise instructions so there’s no room for confusion, which leads to mistakes, and you’ll also want to see precise measurements, cooking times, and techniques. 

Ingredient Accessibility 

Before you commit to a recipe, take a good look at the ingredient list to make sure you can easily get hold of everything you’re going to need. It might be a nice idea to make a dish that includes a lot of exotic and unusual ingredients, for example, but if you can’t get those ingredients in your usual grocery store and you have to go on a long hunt for them, is it really worth it? 

Ideally, you’ll want to look for some recipes that you’ve already got the ingredients for (that’s going to save you money, plus you’ll already know how to prepare them), but if not, standard ingredients are a good choice, as you won’t run the risk of having to change your plans when you can’t get hold of vital items. 

Reviews And Ratings

Thanks to the internet, you don’t have to limit yourself to recipes that come from old cookbooks (although leafing through cookbooks isn’t a bad hobby, and you might enjoy it) – you can find recipes all over the place. 

What’s great about online recipes is that a lot of the time you’ll be able to see ratings and reviews for them that the people who’ve cooked the dishes have left. They’ll talk about how easy the dish was, any issues they had (and how they fixed them), and what the final result was like, and that all makes it a lot easier for you to make a decision about whether or not the recipe is something you’d like to cook.