# Serious Eats

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Serious Eats and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for reliable, well-tested recipes with measurements in grams and no paywall. Critics mention intrusive popups that block the page and cannot be dismissed.

## Why people recommend it

- Reliable, well-tested recipes (3 comments): "I have yet to make anything from Serious Eats, and particularly Kenji's recipes, that I didn't enjoy making and eating." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139268)) "the text is actual documentation of their testing and/or the steps they've made" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915118)) "SeriousEats is great most of the time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638792))
- Kenji López-Alt's recipes (3 comments): "I have yet to make anything from Serious Eats, and particularly Kenji's recipes, that I didn't enjoy making and eating." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139268)) "I'd recommend checking out Serious Eats for Kenji's "Vegan Experience" recipes." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883110)) "I'm a big J. Kenji López-Alt and Serious Eats fan" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722970))

## What people warn about

- Popups block the page (1 comments): "the series of popups completely blocks the page, and can't be dismissed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239447))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [OnlyRecipe 2.0](https://hackerapproved.com/p/onlyrecipe-2-0.md): 24 recommend
- [New York Times Cooking](https://hackerapproved.com/p/new-york-times-cooking-app.md): 8 recommend
- [Mealie](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mealie.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Serious Eats", https://hackerapproved.com/p/serious-eats/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).