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There is no copyright on recipes; this is why the SEO laden essays exist. You can just steal recipes, because no one owns them anyway.

Given the choice between a recipe site that has a thousand words about someone's grandmother or a recipe site that divides the ingredients by two, I'll choose the latter.

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Recipes specifically are not copyrighted because no lawmaker wants to throw grandma in jail for copying the side of a box. I think they technically count as "facts" which aren't copyrightable (e.g. whisking egg whites and sugar is going to eventually get you a meringue)

A lot of "secret" family recipes usually have their origin in something like this.

Something being legal doesn't make it ethical. I'm also disgusted by this attitude of "screw you and the labor you invested to create and share this recipe."

Almost none of the sites publishing recipes online created those recipes. Very often, no-one there's even cooked them once.

I regularly get recipes from real people who really make original (as far as recipes can be original) or adapted recipes. No, it's not plagiarism all the way down.

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