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smitten kitchen is a personal blog at smittenkitchen.com about culture. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Smitten Kitchen, a home cooking recipe blog, mainly for recipes such as challah, bagels, biscotti and oven ribs, which commenters say they cook from repeatedly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Fearless cooking from a tiny NYC kitchen.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-09-15
What Hacker News says?
Also, don't eat boxed foods or foods that went through multiple stages of processing. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan spells it out very well, but I'll just give you my simple definition: Eating healthy is as close to eating dirt without actually eating dirt. Produce, grain, cheese, 1/2 pound to a pound of meat a week[1], and whatever else Marion Nestle recommends[1.5]. Just imagine what primitive man would eat…
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on “Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie”Submitted Tomato sauce with onion and butter (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI use basically this recipe: https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/09/best-challah-egg-bread/
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on “Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'”Submitted Tomato sauce with onion and butter (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI like the variation that includes apples: http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-the-apple-pancake-13112 Also, my favorite biscotti recipe (a proper Italian biscotti without butter): https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/07/chocolate-hazelnut-biscot... (Skip the hazelnuts -- you will go crazy trying to peel them, blanched or not -- buy hazelnut meal/flour instead and use 8 oz of it in place of the hazelnuts.)
Comment linking /2008/07/chocolate-hazelnut-biscotti/
on “A suggestion on how to spend a day at home”Trying to pick things not yet mentioned. Cooking blogs (I read a bunch more, but these are the best): http://thestonesoup.com/blog/ http://smittenkitchen.com/ http://globaltableadventure.com/ A blog ostensibly about learning Japanese but really about learning anything: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/ Humor: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/ Programming: http://prog21.d…
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on “Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?”Look at any old Italian kitchen and you'll be amazed how much can be accomplished with next to no space. One of my favourite food bloggers has a fairly small kitchen. Not tiny by any standards, but smaller than typical suburban Instagram food blogger types. She seems to do a lot of her cooking and prep on a hot place and ikea cart. Fairly impressive and what I strive for in my own kitchen https://smittenkitchen.com/…
Comment linking /2008/11/how-to-max-out-your-tiny-kitchen/
on “Eating Jell-O with Chopsticks”I like it, although I think there are other organizing principles to explore. Seconded on all the 'fork' comments its not at all intuitive to a chef what you mean here. At present the top level abstraction is the recipe which you've sort of equated to 'source code' but when you look at something like Github or Sourceforge the high level abstraction is the 'project' and in the food world the closest I could come up w…
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on “Show HN: Github for recipes”https://thebrowser.com (by subscription) https://longform.org http://www.openculture.com https://food52.com https://smittenkitchen.com https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon https://www.rawstory.com
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on “Ask HN: What are the other websites you visit daily?”https://smittenkitchen.com/2007/09/bronx-worthy-bagels/ This bagel recipe is the best I've tried. Not that hard to do, but it will overheat your mixer so you have to knead by hand.
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on “The Bagel Language”6.1 No tiny font size Don't expect your users to surf your website with a magnifying glass, e.g. http://smittenkitchen.com/
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on “Anti-Web-Design Manifesto (2013)”My wife made ribs in the oven using a similar technique a few weeks ago. They were delicious! This was the recipe she followed: https://smittenkitchen.com/2015/06/oven-ribs-even-better/
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on “The Secret to Ribs Is Already in the Kitchen: The Oven (2010)”As many others have said, iPhone app definitely. This will make the site more casual. For the "pivot" i'd perhaps suggest trying to get people to document recipes with multiple pictures, this lets you target the more hard core user. Theres an excellent blog that i love reading that gives a good example of what im describing: http://smittenkitchen.com/
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on “HN:Help Pivot Our Startup -- Eat.ly”Yes, most do! If you want a fortress of well-tested recipes I highly recommend Smitten Kitchen. Everything tested to great depths... https://smittenkitchen.com/
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on “Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions?”Neat. Now do it for gluten free flour[1] :) this is the go-to recipe in my home. You can sub in GF flour (Bob's 1:1) and they're consistently excellent. https://smittenkitchen.com/2011/06/blueberry-yogurt-multigra... [1] so I can enjoy it!
Comment linking /2011/06/blueberry-yogurt-multigrain-pancakes/
on “Show HN: I Derived a Pancake”
