Love watching those short GIFs of delicious recipes? These visual recipe sites will show you how to cook anything in a matter of minutes through GIFs and short videos.

When you want to quickly find a recipe, it can be frustrating and annoying to go through long-winded posts on recipe blogs and 20-minute long videos. Plus, words don't always tell you how the dish is supposed to look at each step of the cook. There are some on the internet who value your time. Find what you want to cook at these sites in the form of a GIF, a short video, or an old-fashioned blog post but with photos for each step.

1. TikTok Cookbook (Web): The Best Short Recipe Videos From TikTok

TikTok is famous for 15 second viral videos set to soundtracks or trending audio clips. But the same short format has made it the perfect social media app for quickfire recipe videos. While the original app doesn't have an easy way to find them all, that's what TikTok Cookbook is for.

The web app collects links to recipe videos on TikTok, and tries to classify them as best as possible. You can quickly filter the videos by cuisine, or search for ingredients or dishes and hope they're in the original title. The app also offers a simple registration process by which you can add recipes to Favorites and look them up later.

TikTok Cookbook is a great way to discover local recipes in a visual way since that's the basic appeal of the app for a lot of non-English-speaking regions. Plus, if a recipe can be condensed down to 15 seconds, you can be assured that it's simple enough for anyone to make it.

2. Tasty GIF Recipes (Web): GIF Recipes by Ingredient, Type, and Cuisine

Tasty GIF Recipes is a collection of GIF recipes that you can sort by cuisine, type, and ingredient

BuzzFeed's Tasty set the trend for short GIF recipes going viral. The format was a hit, as people searched for top-down view of recipes, told through short GIFs usually less than a minute. There are thousands of people producing such videos now, and you can view the best of them at Tasty (not affiliated with BuzzFeed).

At Tasty, all recipes are neatly tagged and categorized. Apart from a robust search function, you can quickly sort recipes by cuisine (Italian, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, American, etc), type (beverage, dessert, main course, snack), and ingredient. Being able to find recipes by ingredients is a proven method to get rid of leftovers, after all. After choosing your filters, you can also further sort the recipes by view count, upvotes, or date added.

Despite its title, Tasty doesn't always serve GIFs. A lot of them are WebM videos, which isn't a bad thing. They often look better than GIFs and are easier to download and save for later.

3. r/GifRecipes (Web): Subreddit to Share GIF Recipes

r/GifRecipes is a community to share short GIF recipes and food hacks

If you like recipes in the form of a GIF, this is the community for you. Hopefully, you are already using Reddit to subscribe to r/GifRecipes, but if you aren't, it'll be worth it to start using Reddit just for this. It's an active subreddit with several new posts daily.

Anyone is free to submit new recipes at r/GifRecipes, which means both original creators and random food lovers will post about their creations and discoveries. Most of the GIFs are hosted on Gfycat, which means you can also download them as animated GIFs or MP4 videos.

The "flairs" in the sidebar let you sort through the posts by four meal types: main course, breakfast/brunch, appetizer/side, and dessert. The forum also has other types of posts like beverages and snacks, and you can try using the search feature to find those. It can be a little difficult for newcomers though, so use these tips and tricks to search Reddit effectively.

4. CookSmarts Infographics (Web): Infographics for Visual Recipes and Food Combos

CookSmarts Infographics are a neat visual way to learn how to cook

Meal planning service CookSmarts regularly shares cool infographics about food and recipes, which you must have come across as a reshare or retweet on social media. But the website doesn't collect them all in one place officially. Well, you can find all of these lovely creations in a single page at the Visual.ly CookSmarts account, or on an Imgur page made by a loyal fan.

The infographics talk about a range of different recipes and food facts. Some of the most interesting and popular recipe infographics are the guides to different salads for each season, simple sauce recipes, the stir-fry combo guide for all kinds of ingredients, and a most helpful guide to spices so that you can match flavors judiciously. It's easier to download and print them off the Imgur page, but the Visual.ly account has more variety.

Of course, CookSmarts isn't the only infographic-maker for recipes. If you like such infographics for food, there are a couple of other collections worth checking out. Netizens have collated the best food infographics in a variety of posts, such as these 27 infographics to teach you to cook, guides to understanding food, and 25 food and cooking infographics by Momtastic.

5. Picture The Recipe (Web): Photos for Every Step of Cooking a Recipe

Picture The Recipe offers step-by-step recipes with photos for each method, to show you what it should look like

Recipe sites will usually give you step-by-step instructions, but it's difficult to imagine what they mean exactly when they use descriptors. For beginners, terms like "whisk till it forms peaks" or "baste till it browns" are not helpful. Picture The Recipe offers real photos along with the instructions, making it one of the best cooking sites for beginners.

Blogger Noreen carefully photographs each part of the cooking process and helpfully offers these real pictures next to the step for a visual representation of what it should look like. Sometimes, you'll find as many as four pictures for a step that takes a single sentence. That's a good thing because if it's your first time doing that method, you need all the help and guidance you can get.

The website itself is a standard recipe blog, with a recipe index, most popular posts, tips and tricks section, and so on. It's easy to navigate, Noreen's writing is simple and clear, and reader responses indicate the flavors are lip-smacking.

If you prefer to learn by video, you should also check out the Picture The Recipe YouTube channel. It's not active at the moment, but Noreen's recipes are usually around two minutes in length, showing each step of the process clearly.

Get Yourself a Recipe Organizer

Do you think these five sites are great? It's just the tip of the iceberg. The internet is packed with recipes and cooking advice. The challenge isn't to find new recipes, it's to keep track of the ones you see and would like to try in the future.

The best thing you can do for yourself is to get a recipe organizer app. You can usually import recipes in these from blog posts. They aren't yet primed for visual recipes, but you can save videos or social media posts as simple links for now.