Hey All,
It seems that as of late this sub has become a lot more focused on content creators who were formerly very involved in the Serious Eats website and a lot less focused on the current state of [SeriousEats.com](https://SeriousEats.com).
I’m curious how many people here still frequent the site on a regular basis.
To be clear, I’m not trying to whine or complain about the current staff at SE. I do feel the quality of the content has fallen a lot with the acquisition (right now like half the content on the main page is either product reviews or old content that’s been republished) but I truly do respect Daniel et al.
It just seems this sub focuses a lot more on what Kenji is up to (and to be fair he is still listed as a “culinary consultant” on SE) rather than new content from the site.
Due to a lot of the UX design changes to the site I don’t frequent it as often as I once did so I’m curious what I’ve been missing out on.
Do you still actively check out [seriouseats.com](https://seriouseats.com)? Has there been any content in the last few years you feel has gone overlooked (i.e. not reposts of The Food Lab or Stella’s work but legit new things that just have not gotten the attention it deserves)?
by Shatteredreality
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From 2012 until the big buyout, I was a daily (sometimes multiple times a day) visitor to the homepage to see what new was posted.
Now I typically just add “+seriouseats” to most of my recipe searches to see if there’s an old recipe on there for whatever I’m looking for.
I still see it as a pretty good repository of great recipes (mostly from the Kenji days), but it’s not a hub for me anymore.
I still go back to SE for lots of old recipes (Making the Hattie B’s Nashville Hot Chicken today), but it’s no longer the first place I search when I’m looking for “the best way to make x”.
I bought an NYT cooking subscription around the time that Sohla joined their team, and it’s my go to now, although the content still isn’t as good as SE in their heyday.
The removal of the “Jump to Recipe” button effectively killed the website for me. I’ll visit to check old recipes but I’m not looking at new ones.
Same as others, I used to visit regularly, sometimes multiple times a day and have many many downloaded SE recipes I use all the time but nowadays I tend to follow Kenji more than the SE site as a whole.
I find that Cooks Illustrated and America’s Test Kitchen to be vastly superior to SE in terms of recipe development. Also, in 2023 there is way more competition in the space so whatever edge that SE had is being eroded.