Background, I have a soy allergy and I'm looking to eat less meat or possibly go vegetarian. I came across this article that includes tempeh, an item made with soybeans even by its own description.
I love their recipe for no bake cookies, though! Just 12-15 minutes at 375°, and you're good to go.
It's like the entire Web went to shit in 6 months.
Last week I was researching hot tubs and saunas and so forth, as I was gifted a 10 visit spa pass.
Top result was rambling and obviously AI generated, packed with keywords and very little information presented in haphazard way, that was telling me that the ideal water temperature for maximum therapeutic benefit in a hot tub is 130-140F.
Yeah no problem. Once I get used to 140F water I'll work my way towards something hotter, perhaps boiling peanut oil.
Hey, that's actually not a half bad idea I think I'll try it!
However this brings the new concern to the surface, I've recently read that Google is starting to purge older results. I have seen this personally when I have tried to find articles or subjects I know exist, I know I found on Google to begin with, and they have completely disappeared from Google.
DuckDuckGo has SEO junk too, unfortunately. I don't think any search engine is immune to it since the people that maintain the garbage sites know what the search engines like best and tweak their sites so they rank highly.
Someone archived it back in September https://web.archive.org/web/20230927023807/https://www.bakerhomemaker.com/soy-free-meat-alternatives/#Tempeh
I feel like the chucklefucks farming accidental clicks aren’t ready for what’s going to happen if someone takes them at their word—even if it’s stupid as shit—and make themselves or someone else sick and/or dead by fucking around with allergens or other food safety issues. This should really be considered on par with telling people it’s a great idea to mix bleach and ammonia. “Oops, a machine did it and therefor I should be insulated from any consequences (but I should get the profit from it)” is something that will make/is making the internet completely unusable.
Edit: also for meat substitutes, seitan might be what you’re looking for. Just be aware that it’s very common for commercial seitan to include soy sauce. If you can’t find one without soy it’s not hard to make it yourself from vital wheat gluten.
Can we not start making a publicly sourced blacklist for websites like this? It would be an add-on for the browser that will simply remove these results
Better to create a whitelist instead. Webrings used to be popular in the 90s/00s.
https://based.cooking/ demonstrates the way forward. Recipes are text; perhaps a small photo or two as a prep/serving guide, but nothing more than that.
It's literally almost every link on the first page of Google for any common search term. SEO spam is crazy these days.
I have a feeling any list will not be able to catch up with the rate at which these sites are created.
I would absolutely pay for a way to block AI generated content from showing up on my browser.
The first ad blocker to offer this wins.
This would require some sort of compliance standard that people need to mark their content as AI generated.
Articles like this are a plague. I don't know about google but DDG seems to serve me these when ever I'm looking for general information about something. The only good thing is that they're so bad that it's usually easy to tell but that wont be the case for long.
Lately when I'm looking for tutorials, my search results are overwhelmingly weird question and answer style "articles", akin to chatgpt prompts, some of which are barely related to what I'm looking for. I'm having a hard time looking for articles written by a human. In fact oftentimes I question whether or not the article is written by a machine or a person who sucks at writing.
You could try seitan. It is basically pure gluten. People say it has a very meat like texture (I've never tasted meat so I cannot tell you for certain).
Seitan is delicious. My mother back in the 70s used to bake it with onions, garlic and tamari. It was one of my favorite things to eat, rigoreus makrobiotic diet and all.
Speaking as an omnivore, it's not indestinguishable from meat, but it is delicious. The texture tends to be less fibrous than meat and the flavour is sometimes better imo.
Well chickpeas are underrated asf for one, fry em with oil and add a little salt and it's like vegan bacon... Well, vegan bacon spheres. Hummus is a chickpea dip that is to die for, flavor-wise and it's really easy to make fresh + keeps for weeks. Highly recommend mushrooms and nuts too for when you need something a little heartier.
Cooking with seitan, chickpeas and beans can be really tasty. Myself, I’ve had more luck with trying new recipes versus trying to replace meat in meat dishes. I’ll do the latter every now and then though, because I still like the taste/dish.
Can you get Quorn where you live? Pretty decent. Ironically, I'm allergic to it - so no good for me.
And OP wants to eat less of it, or even go fully vegetarian. So not really an option, whether it’s an ethical, environmental, or health reason for OP.
That’s the joke. Beef in a list of soy-free meat substitutions makes as much sense as soy.
