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Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by VRay »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #77
VRay wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man, what a disappointing thread.. the BBC site is great except it’s all weird British ingredients and units (how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale?) The OP’s site is a really nice search engine, but it dumps you into the recipes’ unreadable SEO trash pit websites instead of parsing out the data PlainOldRecipe isn’t working to strip recipes down for me

Volume measurement for flour is inconsistent and annoying. Metric and by weight is by far the best format for recipes and best way to measure ingredients. In professional kitchens it's all we ever used (I used to work in some top restaurants, talking world's 50 best back in the day).

Oh, that's good to know. Maybe it's time to invest in a kitchen scale. (And I'll buy an actual cookbook while I'm at it, so I won't have to deal with this SEO disaster any more..)

EDIT: Hey, wait, I actually found a good website with recipes: http://online-cookbook.com/goto/cook/rpage/000DDF

and a good search engine: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=pancake+recipe&pro...

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by namrog84 »

joshstrange wrote: post #115

I'll take this opportunity to mention one of my favorite apps: Paprika [0]. It's a recipe app that can import from just about every recipe site/blog/etc and if it can't auto-import it then you can use the really easy tools to grab all the pertinent information. Once imported you can edit/scale/rate/tag/categorize/etc the recipe. Furthermore it has meal planning tools and a grocery list built in. I love the grocery li…

Ive heard great things about it. And while it is cross platform but you do have to buy it per platform. Which is a bummer.

5 for ios. Free on android. And 30 for windows.

And seemingly no browser version? :(

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by kirse »

dom_hutton wrote: post #139
leobg wrote: post #126

I love the tabulated recipes shown on cookingforengineers.com [1]. Ever since I first saw this, whenever I get a recipe, from anywhere, I convert it by hand to this format. Perhaps you can automate that process? That would be rad! [1] http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...

Recipes are basically flame graphs, but for food.

Interesting, I always translate recipes into a mental GANTT chart and use multiple timers because I like everything to be finished at the same time.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by joshstrange »

namrog84 wrote: post #142
joshstrange wrote: post #115

I'll take this opportunity to mention one of my favorite apps: Paprika [0]. It's a recipe app that can import from just about every recipe site/blog/etc and if it can't auto-import it then you can use the really easy tools to grab all the pertinent information. Once imported you can edit/scale/rate/tag/categorize/etc the recipe. Furthermore it has meal planning tools and a grocery list built in. I love the grocery li…

Ive heard great things about it. And while it is cross platform but you do have to buy it per platform. Which is a bummer. 5 for ios. Free on android. And 30 for windows. And seemingly no browser version? :(

No, no browser version but it’s not been an issue for me since they have apps everywhere I need. Also, their (undocumented) API is simple enough if you want access.

As far as having to purchase per-platform, it’s a steal for the utility I get from it and there is no subscription fee, it’s 1-time.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by jimmaswell »

amflare wrote: post #112
m12k wrote: post #31

Great idea! But please read https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

> Considering only positive and negative ratings (i.e. not a 5-star scale) Is there anywhere that details the changes necessary to use for other rating scales (such as the 5-star/10-star system)?

> Considering only positive and negative ratings (i.e. not a 5-star scale)

I hate this. It feels like part of the internet getting dumbed down.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by WhyCause »

MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #131
leobg wrote: post #126

I love the tabulated recipes shown on cookingforengineers.com [1]. Ever since I first saw this, whenever I get a recipe, from anywhere, I convert it by hand to this format. Perhaps you can automate that process? That would be rad! [1] http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...

This site still holds up better than most today. Imagine if we had how-tos and tutorials like this instead of a youtube video for everything.

I get so frustrated nowadays looking for origami instructions; everything seems to be a video when all I want are the diagrams that used to get posted.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by boringg »

cacois wrote: post #64
radihuq wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly, someone built a recipe app with this narrative and received a ton of backlash online: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56241653

I love how they say the content that users dislike is "relevant to the recipe", rather than admitting its SEO fodder.

I don't think its SEO fodder I think its to space out the page so you have to scroll through multiple advertisements so they get their revenue.

Either way its total garbage.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by bbkane »

WhyCause wrote: post #146
MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This site still holds up better than most today. Imagine if we had how-tos and tutorials like this instead of a youtube video for everything.

I get so frustrated nowadays looking for origami instructions; everything seems to be a video when all I want are the diagrams that used to get posted.

I buy origami books. It's a great way to leave the computer for a bit and of course they're readable outside, don't have ads...

I recommend John Montroll's origami books.

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