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Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

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Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

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Post by rafabulsing »

Trying it with Alton Brown's cookies led to some bugs:

https://onlyrecipeapp.com/recipe-details?canonicalUrl=https:...

- 12 ounces bread flour became just "12 ounce" - Yield of 2 dozen cookies became just "2 servings"

Also, not really a bug per se, but the site contains both metric and imperial measures already, and I see that you only take the imperial units and convert them on demand. For some of the measures, like for the butter, the difference is significant. Not huge, but enough to be noticeable.

All that said: this is pretty great. I've actually been thinking about making a recipe app for quite a while now, and I see the most interesting features I thought of you have implemented. Scraping recipes on demand, interactive timers, recipe scaling. Really cool!

Only idea I had that I don't see here is automatically estimating nutrients and calories. But that's probably for the best: When I tried making the aforementioned app, I started by diving right into that particular rabbit hole, and, well... I still don't have any recipe app to show for it :p Here be dragons!

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

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Post by ansc »

parliament32 wrote: post #102
chrysoprace wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But that doesn't work. The chart states that 1 cup of 00 flour is 116g which is simply not true. It _might_ be 116g, but it could also be 200g (!). Volume measurement is simply not suitable for baking. For things like sauces or marinades, you use a much smaller amount, and approximate is generally fine.

Well yes, but it's a matter of perspective I think. Is it the amount that the recipe author used? Maybe, maybe not. But is it the amount you used the last dozen times you used this recipe? Of course, as long as your chart hasn't changed. To be clear, I'm not disagreeing with your general premise, everything would be much easier if all recipes used weights for powder-like-ingredients. But recipes that actually have we…

There is no (serious) baker that use volume for flour. If the recipe uses volume, it is flawed and you should find another recipe.

Every recipe on King Arthur that you linked has weights.

I realize how I sound, but there is a very big difference in a couple of percentages of flour, and you'd definitely mess up a beginner with the difference with the amount of flour.

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

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Post by ludicrousdispla »

I like the idea, but your UI implementation is extremely annoying.

Please make the recipe page scrollable with arrow keys or pgUp pgDn.

Get rid of the image so the entire list of ingredients is visible.

The metric conversion seems off as there are very different amounts for the number before the listed ingredient and after it (in parentheses)... I'd paste an example but your page does not allow text selection.

Make the text selectable.

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

#136

Post by Mashimo »

ThomasMidgley wrote: post #77
folli wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, depending on the ingredient, it makes more sense to use cups as a measurement of volume, not mass, when converting to metric. E.g. liquids, yoghurt etc. Another thing: although not strictly metric, but European recipes also use tablespoon and teaspoon as measurements for smaller volumes, so no need to convert this. Just my two cents, other than that very nice work!!

"Also, depending on the ingredient, it makes more sense to use cups as a measurement of volume, not mass, when converting to metric." Hmmm... What kind of cup? :-) US "legal" cup (240ml) US customary cup (246,6ml) metric cup (250ml) UK cup (170,5ml) edit: fixed typo 150ml -> 250ml

Or UK Breakfast cup (227,3ml)

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

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Post by AwkwardPanda »

Robbsen wrote: post #134

The metric conversion works fine for the ingredient list. But I noticed that it does not convert unit that are used in the instructions. For example when the instructions contain "preheat the oven to 350ºF", it does not get converted.

Yes, this has been noted. Will fix it. Thanks

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

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Post by askvictor »

Looks great, will give it a try. How does it handle tablespoon conversions, given that a tablespoon refers to a different volume in different countries? (This is a difficult problem to solve, since it's difficult to determine the country if origin of a recipe). I'm many recipes it won't matter, but in some it will make a big difference

Re: Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

#140

Post by Quiza12 »

kelseyfrog wrote: post #69

This is great, but it seems to be missing the requisite 5000 word backstory detailing the author's summer trips to their grandma's farmhouse where the recipe originated or the vacation to a foreign land where the author had a personal encounter with the dish's chef who, after much cajoling, revealed the secret recipe. Without the backstory, each recipe feels ungrounded and detached from time, place, and even reality…

Hahaha - I made my own website to mock these ones: https://matthewquerzoli.com/#/projects/internet-recipe
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