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The Best and Worst Things About Food Blogging on Medium
Audience, Views, Reads, Seizures, and Payment
I’ve only been food blogging on Medium for four months now, but after experimenting with many kinds of articles, food blogging and recipe writing is the type of writing that I am consistently happiest to go back to again and again. Other types of articles often leave me feeling like I wasn’t as clear as I could have been, or that there was more to the story I wish I could have told but I cut it because it didn’t fit inside the focus. But a recipe is a nice, neat, contained thought. Hitting publish on a recipe is a big sigh of relief and accomplishment.
That said, food blogging on Medium isn’t something I can recommend without reservations.
Reader experience vs. audience reads
One of the best things about Medium is that it doesn’t run ads. No flashing sidebars, or awkward auto-play commercial vids.
Most non-Medium recipe and cooking blogs are positively twitching with them. When you’re using a full-size computer screen, the effect of all of those ads firing is bearable, but once you scale down to reading a recipe on a phone, the user experience ranks somewhere between aggravating and unreadable.
