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> Many recipes are blown up to make them copyrightable.

To attempt to make them copyrightable at least. My understanding is that fundamental recipes themselves as sequences of steps and ingredients are never copyrightable in the US. From having sat around a lot of recipe bloggers though it sounds like the main reason they do the long essays is to try and improve search ranking.

Recipe sites always have a print button which gives you just the recipe. If I end up on one of those sites I instantly hit Ctrl+F "print" to get it.

The Firefox Addon RecipeCleaner can also do that for you

Try to look at the recipe page without adblock. You will see ads every couple sentences. Longer article more ads.