Recommender systems are prone to triggering choice overload among users due to the typically largeset sizes. Various applications have been developed that aim to overcome this through interface design,notably by so-called multi-list recommender systems. However, to what extent such user interface designactually reduces choice overload compared to single-list interfaces has yet to be examined. In a user study(𝑁 = 150), we compared three common user interfaces (UIs) in the context of recipe recommendation: asingle-list UI, a grid UI and a multi-list UI. Whereas earlier studies found differences in choice difficultyand choice satisfaction across grid-based and multi-list recommender interfaces, we observed no suchdifferences, as the explanations were possibly not sufficiently helpful. Instead, we found that grid-basedUIs and multi-list UIs had a higher perceived ease of use than a single-list UI, which in turn reducedchoice difficulty. The benefits of such interfaces, thus, may lie in the organization of the UI, at least inthe recipe domain.