A recipe site built around the ingredients, not around the story before the recipe.
Most recipe sites treat the ingredient list as plumbing — a thing to get past on the way to the method. That always seemed backwards. The decision that actually changes your dinner happens earlier, in the shop, when you are holding two peppers and picking one.
So youryum is built the other way round. Every recipe links its ingredients to a page about that ingredient: what is in it, how to choose a good one, how to store it so it lasts, and what to use when you have none.
Every nutrition figure on this site is traced to USDA FoodData Central and the page says so, with the record ID where one exists. Percentages of reference intake use EU adult RIs.
Recipe nutrition is an estimate calculated from ingredient weights. It moves with the brands and cuts you actually use, and the page says that too.
Plain static files, generated ahead of time and served straight from a CDN. No database, no server, no analytics script, no cookie banner — because there are no cookies to consent to. Images are resized at build time, so nothing is processed while you wait.
| Recipes | 8 |
|---|---|
| Ingredient pages | 4 |
| Guides | 3 |
| Trackers | None |
Ingredient guides
Bought produce for a twelve-store grocery chain in Ohio for most of his thirties, which is where the opinions about pepper stems come from. Writes the buying and storage guides. Believes most food waste is a storage problem, not a shopping problem, and has the numbers to back it.
Recipe developer
Cooks everything twice before it goes up, in a rented kitchen in Portland with an oven that runs 15 degrees hot. Spent six years on the line and left because she wanted to eat dinner at dinner time. Writes the recipes and takes most of the photographs. Will argue about salting zucchini.
Data and comparisons
Checks every number on this site against USDA FoodData Central and writes the comparison pieces. Came to food writing from data journalism, which shows: she will not publish a figure without the record ID next to it, and she has killed several of our better headlines for being unsupportable.