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Show HN: Discover Recipes by Ingredients

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Re: Show HN: Discover Recipes by Ingredients

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How is this different than Gojee? http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/21/recipe-finding-app-gojee-qu...

After actually going to the site, I find that this is an app into which one enters ingredients in order to search for recipes that use those ingredients. Gojee, however, appears to be some sort of social network that wants to show me pictures of food until I give them my Facebook particulars. No thanks!

Re: Show HN: Discover Recipes by Ingredients

#13
I've looked for recipes with Beef, Caviar, Coffee, Eggs, Ham, jalapeno, Lemon Juice, Sugar, Tomato Sauce,Vodka and it still finds me a dozen of recipes...

I understand that you can take ingredients replacements in account (as jalapeno, still keeping paprika recipes) but here it doesn't make sense anymore.

Re: Show HN: Discover Recipes by Ingredients

#17

Seems like your search uses OR, not AND. So adding more ingredients broadens the search rather than narrowing it. That seems kind of useless... adding just a handful of ingredients would end up matching basically all recipes.

If you click the star next to the ingredient name, it tags that ingredient as "recipe must include this ingredient", so you can click all of the stars to do an AND.

Edit: And if you click the star a second time it tags it as "this recipe must not include this ingredient", which would be helpful for people with allergies (or picky eaters).

Re: Show HN: Discover Recipes by Ingredients

#19
In my university (Manchester, UK) there's a whole year course in the first year when you are assigned to a group of people and you have to make a website, anything you can come up with.

Every year, someone makes a web site for searching recipes by ingredients :)

To be more on topic, I like the idea but I think implementation (i.e. manual work required) is a bit too... demanding, involved? We are in the world of 1 click. I would like an app which would allow easy input (scan bar codes?) combined with machine learning to discover new meals (taste, effort required). Google Now for food?

Re: Show HN: Discover Recipes by Ingredients

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Seems like your search uses OR, not AND. So adding more ingredients broadens the search rather than narrowing it. That seems kind of useless... adding just a handful of ingredients would end up matching basically all recipes.

If you click the star next to the ingredient name, it tags that ingredient as "recipe must include this ingredient", so you can click all of the stars to do an AND. Edit: And if you click the star a second time it tags it as "this recipe must not include this ingredient", which would be helpful for people with allergies (or picky eaters).

>>> And if you click the star a second time it tags it as "this recipe must not include this ingredient"

And this is a prime example why icons without labels (in this app, there are no tooltips either which is even worse) are useless.

Star as in... favourite ingredient? save ingredient to some list? wut...?

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