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Unfortunately nobody can really answer your questions as well as you can yourself, because nobody but you knows what you want to achieve.
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I'm sure that several people have advice on whether certain functions, features and methods can put a strain on a server based on their own experiences or what can or can't make a site load slower based on those same functions, features and methodologies.
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I have no idea why you're trying to code everything from the back end to the front end yourself when there are plenty of recipe templates and themes already out there.
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Because I'm teaching myself to code using .php, sure there are thousands of Wordpress templates and themes out there but if I use one of those, I'll not learn anything about coding.
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Machines typically count from 0; humans from 1. That's it. Just use whatever works in your code, because no internet user, including you, has ever cared whether a URL has a 0 or 1.
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Unless it comes to placing extra server strain/load resulting in negative load times due to having to recount pagination functions each and every time a web page loads.
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Why would you even have hundreds of pages? It's a scientific fact that no human in their right mind (who wasn't stealing/scraping content) has ever clicked further than page 5 of anything.
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Because having hundreds of pages is a good way to get niche specific traffic to a recipe site directly from the search engines, being able to filter results based on ingredient, recipe type or cooking method is going to generate hundreds of pages and in theory will attract a larger source of organic traffic over time.
Based on your opinion, no website anywhere should ever have more than 5 pages. There go all the TGPs, Link Lists, Directories, Review Sites and Pay Site Tours with previews, even GFY has a lot more than 5 pages listed on their page navigation for the forum.
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Pagination is always the worst solution - almost nobody reads past page one anyway, and nobody at all cares about more than 100 items of anything, so even if you don't want to lazy load, just put 100 results on one page and let people find other stuff in other ways, such as categories or 'related' suggestions.
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As mentioned, its not just about the end-user experience, but also for the search engines.
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You're a user too; if you think something makes things easier, do it, and if you think it makes things harder, don't do it. Certainly never let 'style', which is subjective anyway, override user experience.
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I'm also a site owner and while user experience is a large part of owning a website, profitability, design, functionality and layout in addition to style are all important aspects of owning a website.
I appreciate your opinions though and will definitely take them into account, thank you
