Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

Post by Larrikin » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 7:03 PM UTC

mrestko wrote: post #156

stuartbman wrote: post #87

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I use CookBook which scans websites, and OCRs cookbooks with good success! I have all my regular recipes on there now https://thecookbookapp.com/

Looks cool but did a very poor job of importing the first recipe I tried.

Post by soamv » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 7:05 PM UTC

jagged-chisel wrote: post #231

soamv wrote: post #228

For me, the context and reasoning behind why the recipe does what it does is much more important than the recipe itself; that makes such apps counterproductive. I can imagine that "just the recipe" is useful for very novice cooks, but most of the time it's much better to learn the patterns and techniques than to follow the precise recipe. You'll be much more prepared that way when things don't go to plan, or when you…

The common complaint is about the unnecessary prose around the author's life history and other fluff that's useless to the goal of producing the food item. IME, seldom do those sites actually contain useful information about cooking practices in addition to the fluff.

Post by black_13 » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 7:06 PM UTC

Post by walligatorrr » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 7:11 PM UTC

Rygian wrote: post #18

2bitencryption wrote: post #11

What is the reason that every single recipe site, without fail, follows this same horrible pattern? I.e. the twenty paragraph "When I was a child growing up in Atlanta..." followed by a crappy in-house video player followed by, finally, the actual recipe? My assumption is SEO? For some reason, Google must really like having tons of text on your page, and dislikes simple "here's the recipe"? etc? Second question - any…

The copyright around the recipe itself is a challenging issue [1], so a simple way of guaranteeing that the site is not scrapped and published elsewhere verbatim is to include also non-recipe material that falls more clearly under copyright law. [1] https://www.copyrightlaws.com/copyright-protection-recipes/

Post by erik_seaberg » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 7:12 PM UTC

pessimizer wrote: post #141

renewiltord wrote: post #104

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I’ve got to be honest: those stories hold no value to me. That’s the truth. I don’t know why the WaPo wants those us who are like me to pretend otherwise.

It's weird how you go from "to me" to "wants us." Surely you can imagine that people might be interested in history and stories around food. I personally don't give a shit about mathematicians and scientists personal lives, but I don't have a problem imagining those who do. I think the numbers say it all. Others think that the examination of every detail of the person who wrote the numbers first might give them some…