The Joy of Never Cooking That Recipe Again

I have just discovered one special feature of online recipes when they team up with the old technology of printing--you can throw out a recipe if you don't like the results. The act of tossing out (into the recycling pile of course of course--although maybe those safflower oil stains make it un-recyclable?) an unsatisfying recipe is very satisfying. It's something you could never do with a cookbook. You might like other recipes in the same book. We all know how interesting annotations can be in old cookbooks, reminding the home cook about what she didn't like, but you seldom see anything like a big x across a page. If you just read your recipe from a computer screen, you could vow to never use that site again, but it might still pop up next time you went looking for a coconut squash curry noodle soup…
But if you print it out, you can crumple it up and let it go, quite the little kitchen catharsis.