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Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by lldb on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:07AM (#36041367)
Not exactly a cookbook, but the manual for our weber gas grill has proved shockingly useful in cooking most meats to near perfection. Has tables for thickness, cuts, etc.
Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by SSLy on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:12AM (#36041405)
> manual

Saving people a click https://weber.mizecx.com/knowledge/s3/retrieve?path=knowledg...

PDF page 65 onwards

Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by TomK32 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:54AM (#36041679)
Let me save you from scrolling through 64 pages:

    pdftk 54372.pdf cat 65-end output weber-grilling-meat.pdf
Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by capableweb on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @05:25AM (#36041859)
Let me save you a few characters in the future friend:

In both Firefox and Chrome (probably Safari too) there is a page number at the top of the page when you open the PDF. Here you can manually type in a number. Open up the PDF and enter "64" and it'll take you directly to the page you enter.

Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by shakna on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @05:33AM (#36041914)
Well, they do both use PDF.js [0].

[0] https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/

Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by capableweb on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:46AM (#36042387)
Might be, although the UI is certainly different, at least for me on Windows. The page numbers are in the top-left on Firefox but top-center on Chrome.
Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by ghusbands on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:57AM (#36043049)
Chrome uses PDFium [1], not PDF.js.

[1] https://github.com/chromium/pdfium

Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by yakubin on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @09:04AM (#36043654)
Which is significantly snappier than pdf.js on big and moderately-sized PDFs.
Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:51AM (#36043514)
Using that knowledge we can improve on the instructions upthread.

Just open this link: https://weber.mizecx.com/knowledge/s3/retrieve?path=knowledg...

which is the original link, with "#page=65" appended. At least on Firefox, it will lead you straight to the page in question.

Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by andersa on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:03AM (#36042081)
Strange, I copied this in my browser and it opened google rather than the pdf.
Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by expertentipp on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @12:18PM (#36046472)
> teaspoons Szechwan peppercorns

This sounds like made up recipe without ever trying too cook it, as some other commenter mentioned.

Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by Fomite on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:40AM (#36041586)
This manual saved a friend's passover celebration once when a number of electric ovens went out cooking lamb and I suggested the grill.
Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by bell-cot on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:33AM (#36042839)
Weber is a long-term premium brand. Hence plenty of skin in the game. I've had similar experience with manuals (or web sites) for cooking/kitchen products from similar brands.
Re:Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes... by conductr on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:48AM (#36043492)
This reminds me of When my great grandmother became unable to cook and decided to pass her recipes along, it turned out that half of her “traditional southern food” classics had been from some old southern living cookbooks or the back of a Betty Crocker box somewhere.

She made a cookbook of her recipes we all enjoyed for years and years and she included some of the original cutouts and index cards from probably the 50-60s or so. There’s also a lot of steps that you’d expect from a grandmother “cook until done” and “add some spices” to some of them.