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Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by benawad » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 2:45 PM UTC

x86mitch wrote: post #32

benawad wrote: post #28

Cool project, I love that you can search by macros. A few points: 1. Clipping recipes from different websites can be quite challenging because of the varying html structures. I recently tackled this problem and I'm curious what method you used to find recipe content within an html page? I ended up checking to see if the website followed a Recipe schema [1] and if not use a mix of heuristics to try identifying if a li…

For this project, I used Spoonaculars API for clipping recipes. I would be very interested in creating my own, similar to what you did. That would give me more control over the process. Did you come across any open source repos when you worked on your crawler? > Is there a reason you don't include the instructions of the recipe on your website? Yes, when users clip recipes from another source I want to make sure that…

I didn't find any good open source options

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by benawad » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 2:47 PM UTC

Fuzzwah wrote: post #100

benawad wrote: post #28

Cool project, I love that you can search by macros. A few points: 1. Clipping recipes from different websites can be quite challenging because of the varying html structures. I recently tackled this problem and I'm curious what method you used to find recipe content within an html page? I ended up checking to see if the website followed a Recipe schema [1] and if not use a mix of heuristics to try identifying if a li…

I couldn't find any info on how much saffron costs to use?

It's currently free and will stay free for those who signup now.

I'm working on adding a $5/month subscription.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by ghaff » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

shaklee3 wrote: post #147

ghaff wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main thing that bugs me about CI is that I subscribe to their website and they still want me to buy an upgrade to access all the content. I get that there are subscription tiers but it just somehow feels a bit obnoxious to me. Serious Eats is good too. I used to use Epicurious quite a bit back when they were a pretty early-on serious website for recipes. But with the demise of Gourmet and other sites like the NYT…

I think really the most annoying thing is they try to brand themselves as having 3 distinct shows, websites, and books, but they're all the same people and company. Yet they make you buy a subscription for each separately.

As a business, the whole enterprise are really masters at repackaging and reusing to the point where it becomes more than a bit annoying. Though I like them overall and mostly more so since Kimball departed.

(Though, speaking of reuse, Kimball basically went and made an almost clone of CI that IMO was obnoxiously clode to a direct copy.)

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by shaklee3 » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 2:56 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #153

shaklee3 wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think really the most annoying thing is they try to brand themselves as having 3 distinct shows, websites, and books, but they're all the same people and company. Yet they make you buy a subscription for each separately.

As a business, the whole enterprise are really masters at repackaging and reusing to the point where it becomes more than a bit annoying. Though I like them overall and mostly more so since Kimball departed. (Though, speaking of reuse, Kimball basically went and made an almost clone of CI that IMO was obnoxiously clode to a direct copy.)

While Kimball was kind of pompous, I like him much better as the host. Bridget and Julia just don't seem as fluid, and everything about the show feels more scripted. Although, I've watched milk Street as well, and bought the cookbook. I have to say, the quality of milk Street recipes is nowhere near that of America's test kitchen. I found the recipes to be bland and flavorless.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by SpyKiIIer » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 4:10 PM UTC

x86mitch wrote: post #50

SpyKiIIer wrote: post #47

How is this different then the app/website CopyMeThat? I use that app all the time on my ipad to save recipes from random sites to my own "recipe book"

I've never used CopyMeThat but I just looked through it quickly. It looks like a good app for solving a similar problem that feastgenius is solving. I think the difference with what I built is that it also calculates the nutrition content per serving. This was important for me personally because I use the app to search for recipes in certain macros ranges. For example, Finding chicken recipes in a macro range of (car…

Thanks for the great reply! Question: Answered!

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by gpickett00 » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 4:26 PM UTC

I would use this if you had a category/filter for plant based recipes.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by aelhage » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 4:33 PM UTC

cproctor wrote: post #43

My take was a little different; I wanted a CLI app that lets me search my recipes, put menus together, and then see views for shopping and cooking: https://github.com/cproctor/cookbook/ One thing I'm looking forward to adding is tagging recipe steps as do-ahead, mis en place, early, late, and last minute. This will make it a bit easier to think through the mental gantt chart I use when cooking a dinner composed of a…

I've been toying around with the design of a kitchen management program with a lot of overlap in functionality with your program, so that's very cool to see! One feature I had been really interested in having is a nice interface for a version controlled recipe. I want to be able experiment with a recipe and document results and personal preferences.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by swsieber » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 4:59 PM UTC

solatic wrote: post #137

Tangential rant: The publishing industry pushes more and more cookbooks every year, and between traditional cookbooks and more recent YouTube channels, most recipes are much more fantasy entertainment than serious attempts at trying to get people to take more control over how their food is made. The problem is that cookbook recipes distort the flow of food preparation: Find an appealing recipe -> look up the necessar…

Nah, you could totally rely upon recipes and shop only for in season stuff. It'd be trivially easy to if somebody made a seasonally organized cookbook. Getting local only is a little harder, but still not terrible, especially in the digital age.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by tarp » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 5:41 PM UTC

If anyone is interested in building a similar site themselves, there is a static site theme for hugo[0] and jekyll[1] called chowdown. They both use the Recipe schema[2] so importing and exporting recipes is easier.

[0]https://github.com/seanlane/gochowdown

[1]https://github.com/clarklab/chowdown

[2]https://schema.org/Recipe

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by lozenge » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 5:55 PM UTC

fredley wrote: post #108

scottmcdot wrote: post #105

Is it possible to promote some kind of consistency in measuring? My wife disregards a lot of American cooking sites (am based in Australia) because the conversion of cups/teaspoons etc is sometimes open to interpretation and can lead to a disaster.

I cannot understand how anyone puts up with measuring stuff by volume (other than liquids). 1 cup of flour is a hugely variable amount depending on how compressed it is. Don't even get me started on heaped cups. For baking in particular where everything needs to be very precise, it's bonkers to see recipes without weight measurements.

There are "official" ways to fill cups that reduce the variance a bit but you are right. Humidity, pressure and temperature also affect volume more than weight and can throw off a recipe. Plus, scales are O(1) while cups are closer to O(n) (maybe O(log n) if you have many different sizes of cups... and are willing to clean them all...)

Cue all the Americans(who have much bigger kitchens on average) explaining why scales are unnecessary and cups are the one true way.