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Torrere read 86 of 100 recipe sites
On September 22, 2026, Torrere read 86 of 100 recipe sites straight from their own pages, asking each for one recipe page from Torrere's own server. 14 of the 100 sites answered with a browser check or a refusal instead of the page. The table below names every site and what it did. Torrere runs the same test every month, and this page says when it last ran.
Torrere asked each site for one recipe page
Torrere's reader asked each site for one recipe page, once, from Torrere's server, with a two-second pause between sites. It named itself as Torrere/1.0 (+https://torrere.com/reader) and read each site's robots.txt first, the same as when you paste a link into Torrere. A site counts as read when it served the recipe page: Torrere takes the recipe from the page's own recipe data, or from the page's text when the site publishes no recipe data.
What each site did when Torrere asked
Of the 100 sites asked on September 22, 2026, Torrere read 86: 82 from the page's recipe data and 4 from the page's text. So 82 of the 86 recipe pages Torrere was served carried the recipe as schema.org recipe data, steps included. Of the others, 13 answered with a browser check and 1 refused the first request as too many.
| Site | What happened when Torrere asked |
|---|---|
| 101 Cookbooks | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Alexandra's Kitchen | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Allrecipes | Browser check |
| Ambitious Kitchen | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| America's Test Kitchen | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Averie Cooks | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Baker Bettie | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Baking a Moment | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| BBC Food | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| BBC Good Food | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Belly Full | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Better Homes & Gardens | Browser check |
| Betty Crocker | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Bon Appétit | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Brown Eyed Baker | Browser check |
| Budget Bytes | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Cafe Delites | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Carlsbad Cravings | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Chef Savvy | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Chelsea's Messy Apron | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Cookie and Kate | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Cookies and Cups | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Cooking Classy | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Country Living | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Damn Delicious | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| David Lebovitz | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| delicious. magazine | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Delish | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Dinner at the Zoo | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Dinner, then Dessert | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Downshiftology | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| EatingWell | Browser check |
| Epicurious | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Feasting at Home | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Food & Wine | Browser check |
| Food Network | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Food.com | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Food52 | Refused as too many requests |
| Gimme Some Oven | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Good Housekeeping | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Half Baked Harvest | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Handle the Heat | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Hebbar's Kitchen | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Inspired Taste | Read, from the page's text |
| Isabel Eats | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Jamie Oliver | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Jo Cooks | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Joy of Baking | Read, from the page's text |
| Just One Cookbook | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| King Arthur Baking | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Kitchen Sanctuary | Browser check |
| Kristine's Kitchen | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Le Crème de la Crumb | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Lil' Luna | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Live Well Bake Often | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Love & Lemons | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Love and Olive Oil | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Maangchi | Browser check |
| Martha Stewart | Browser check |
| Mel's Kitchen Cafe | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Mexico in My Kitchen | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Milk Street | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Minimalist Baker | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Natasha's Kitchen | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Nigella Lawson | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Nora Cooks | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| NYT Cooking | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| olive | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Once Upon a Chef | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Pati Jinich | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Pillsbury | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Pinch of Yum | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Preppy Kitchen | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Rainbow Plant Life | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| RecipeTin Eats | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Sally's Baking Addiction | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Salt & Lavender | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Saveur | Read, from the page's text |
| Serious Eats | Browser check |
| Simply Recipes | Browser check |
| Skinnytaste | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Smitten Kitchen | Read, from the page's text |
| Southern Living | Browser check |
| Spend With Pennies | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Sugar Spun Run | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Swasthi's Recipes | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Taste of Home | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Tastes Better From Scratch | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Tasty | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| The Kitchn | Browser check |
| The Mediterranean Dish | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| The Pioneer Woman | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| The Recipe Critic | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| The Spruce Eats | Browser check |
| The Stay at Home Chef | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| The Woks of Life | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Two Peas & Their Pod | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Vegan Richa | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Well Plated | Read, from the page's recipe data |
| Wholesome Yum | Read, from the page's recipe data |
Torrere checked what each site's robots.txt tells other crawlers
A site's robots.txt says which crawlers may read which of its pages. Torrere reads it before every page it reads, and for this test it also checked what each site's file says to crawlers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, Common Crawl and ByteDance about the one recipe page Torrere tested there. A site counts when its file tells that crawler not to read that page.
On September 24, 2026, Torrere checked the robots.txt of 99 of the 100 sites against the recipe page it tested on each. 2 of them have no robots.txt, which leaves every page open to every crawler. 46 of the 99 name at least one of these crawlers in their robots.txt.
| Whose crawler, and what it does | Sites telling it not to read the recipe page |
|---|---|
| OpenAI, collecting pages to train its models | 29 of 99 |
| Anthropic, collecting pages to train its models | 23 of 99 |
| Google, deciding whether pages Google crawls may train its models | 27 of 99 |
| Common Crawl, collecting pages for its open archive of the web | 37 of 99 |
| ByteDance's crawler | 23 of 99 |
| OpenAI, finding pages to show in its search results | 4 of 99 |
| Anthropic, finding pages to show in its search results | 13 of 99 |
| Perplexity, finding pages to show in its search results | 19 of 99 |
| OpenAI, fetching a page a person asked about | 9 of 99 |
| Anthropic, fetching a page a person asked about | 13 of 99 |
| Perplexity, fetching a page a person asked about | 14 of 99 |
Torrere's check reads the file and nothing else. A robots.txt line is a request, not a lock, and a site can also turn a crawler away at its server, which the file doesn't show. OpenAI and Perplexity say the fetchers they send when a person asks about a page may not follow robots.txt. The data file below names each crawler the way robots.txt does.
Torrere reads browser-checked sites from your phone
A site that answered with a browser check can still be read in the Torrere apps for iPhone and Android, which open the page in the phone's own browser view. When a site won't answer explains how Torrere does that. A site that refused Torrere, or asked it not to read its pages, isn't read from anywhere.
Torrere's result for a site can change
Sites change what they allow, sometimes from one week to the next, so a result here is what a site did on the day of the test rather than a promise. Torrere asks the same page on each site every month, and picks a new page from the same site only when the old one has gone. Torrere reads a recipe from a link covers what Torrere does with a page it can read.
Torrere shares the results as a data file
Every site, the page Torrere tested on it and what the site answered are in recipe-sites.csv, in Torrere's public repository. The file is under the CC BY 4.0 license, so anyone can use it as long as they say it came from Torrere.