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

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Post by caspar »

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...

You may be interested in this analysis on various recipe formats, along with the proposed "RxOL" notation for explicitly expressing recipes as such a tree based structure[0].

Personally I find RxOL hard to read & edit though, so I have been thinking about whether it would be doable able to infer such tree structures from CookLang's more readable recipe format[1][2].

Ingredients and times are already marked, so surely verbs & follow up mentions of ingredients can be extracted from the text without further annotation? Haven't tried doing it yet though.

[0] http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/CompCook.html

[1] https://cooklang.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997309

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

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Post by cushychicken »

tonymet wrote: post #138
cushychicken wrote: post #92

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My latest favorite is Cook it in Cast Iron from Cook's Country. No recipe in it has been bad. One or two have been "too much work to be worth it", but on average, the food has been good to excellent. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X2E308K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

America's Test Kitchen, which Produces Cooks Illustrated and Cooks Country – is my single favorite publishing resource. A perfect balance of technical information & pragmatic recipes for the amateur cook to be very productive in the kitchen with minimal tools & ingredients.

I've come to like Cook's Country a little more.

Cook's Illustrated is great, and the food is always excellent, but it always seems to me that it's more work than you strictly need to do to get that quality.

Cook's Country recipes are about 90% as good for about 80% less work, in my opinion.

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

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Post by sumtechguy »

bluGill wrote: post #168
sumtechguy wrote: post #153

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You are so correct on the order and timing of items. Everyone in my family was trying to make my grandmothers cookies. I was the only one who went over and documented exactly how she made them. Now that she is gone. I have been designated as the only one who 'knows how to make them'. Even though I proclaim loud and clearly and have documented 'you must make them exactly like this or they will not taste the same'. The…

And now I want the recipe. Two days ago please, I want the cookies now.

https://www.kitschencat.com/pfeffernusse-cookies-peppernuts/

That one is pretty close. Just at step 4 instead of 30 mins she did 24 hours as the previous steps usually took 1-2 hours and she was tired because of how much flour she used. She also used 9-10 cups of flour instead of the 3-4 that calls for as she was also wanting to make a larger batch. If you did that little amount of flour it would probably be very and goopy to roll and cut in the next steps. She also fiddled the sugar, with corn syrup and molasses, I do not have it in front of me but I think it ended up being 1/2cup each and 1/2 cup regular sugar 1/2 cup brown. She also would add in 1/4tsp of anise. But basically all the wet stuff, spices into that, incorporate it good, then add flour until the correct consistency to roll out. With as much flour as she used you better have a good arm or a monster blender. But that recipe should be pretty close, there are thousands or variations on the internet (many include pepper and lemon), these fall on the ginger tasting side. They should be a crunchy cookie not doughy.

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

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Post by sumtechguy »

yesenadam wrote: post #175
bluGill wrote: post #168

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And now I want the recipe. Two days ago please, I want the cookies now.

Off-topic but I might get an answer here: I used to have a great recipe (I) called "15 minute cookies". The total time from first thinking about making them to eating - including preparation and cooking - was 15 minutes. Which was almost always irresistible, so I often made them. Somehow I lost the recipe. Does anyone know what that recipe might be? Thank you!

To me it sounds like a sugar cookie? There usually is not much in them other than sugar, butter, flour, vanilla, and eggs? There are a lot of '15 min' cookies out there. But sugar cookies are usually the simplest. I was always partial to the ones on the bag of chocolate chips. Buy stuff on back of bag (you are at the store already and cant miss it), mix, cook done. yummy!

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

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Post by bitsoda »

MayeulC wrote: post #57
milomildus wrote: post #38

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Ha! Thanks for this. I knew that this must be a solved problem but wasn't searching for the right thing. I'll take a look at implementing a better default sort order.

For another similar rating system, there's also this one: https://steamdb.info/blog/steamdb-rating/ Not exactly sure how the two compare.

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this. I could grok this one much more easily than the other algorithm.

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

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Post by hinkley »

sumtechguy wrote: post #205
yesenadam wrote: post #175

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Off-topic but I might get an answer here: I used to have a great recipe (I) called "15 minute cookies". The total time from first thinking about making them to eating - including preparation and cooking - was 15 minutes. Which was almost always irresistible, so I often made them. Somehow I lost the recipe. Does anyone know what that recipe might be? Thank you!

To me it sounds like a sugar cookie? There usually is not much in them other than sugar, butter, flour, vanilla, and eggs? There are a lot of '15 min' cookies out there. But sugar cookies are usually the simplest. I was always partial to the ones on the bag of chocolate chips. Buy stuff on back of bag (you are at the store already and cant miss it), mix, cook done. yummy!

It's a small step from sugar cookies to snickerdoodles as well. Not everything is better with cinnamon, but some things really are.

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

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Post by WhyCause »

bbkane wrote: post #149
WhyCause wrote: post #146

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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.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I've got a bunch of books (including quite of few of Montroll's) that I've collected over the years. I just the old man who hates seeing interesting creations being posted on /r/origami, only to find a video instead of diagrams when I click through.
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