No garlic scapes in the database? Seems like it's a bit limited.
Seriously… that's the first thing I searched.
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#32It would be nice if it was tolerant of misspelling (e.g. "mozarella") and also handled commas as a tokenizer. (I typed in "tomato, mozarella, basil" before realizing I had to hit enter after each ingredient.)
Also, adding ingredients to the list (hitting enter) is dog slow on my machine.
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#33Seems like your search uses OR, not AND. So adding more ingredients broadens the search rather than narrowing it. That seems kind of useless... adding just a handful of ingredients would end up matching basically all recipes.
This is compounded by the fact that it says "recipes with X and Y", when it is searching for "X or Y".
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#34You can also use google: https://www.google.com/webhp?tbs=rcp:1
Search, then use 'Search Tools' to narrow by ingredient
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#35OP here. Thanks for all the feedback so far!
I just disabled the navigation via pushState as it seems to be buggy on iOS devices. I'll put some more time on this and test it properly.
Regarding the questions with the OR/AND search. Yes, it's an OR by default but you can either force or remove ingredients by clicking on the star icon. In case you are just searching by OR, recipes with a higher "match rate" should appear on top. I clearly need to rework this part as it doesn't seem to be intuitive.
Again, thanks for the feedback!
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#36OP here. Thanks for all the feedback so far! I just disabled the navigation via pushState as it seems to be buggy on iOS devices. I'll put some more time on this and test it properly. Regarding the questions with the OR/AND search. Yes, it's an OR by default but you can either force or remove ingredients by clicking on the star icon. In case you are just searching by OR, recipes with a higher "match rate" should appe…
Came here to look for responses about the AND/OR issue - was wonder why searching for "goat meat" and "flour" suggested that I should make shortbread cookies. :)
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#37Were you thinking about a more visual approach? Because other food related startups tend to show off the beauty of the culinary
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#38I think ANDing should be on by default, since that's likely the most common use case - especially since that's what the left side of the UI implies. Ingredients are usually combined, else it's not really a recipe.
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#39In my university (Manchester, UK) there's a whole year course in the first year when you are assigned to a group of people and you have to make a website, anything you can come up with. Every year, someone makes a web site for searching recipes by ingredients :) To be more on topic, I like the idea but I think implementation (i.e. manual work required) is a bit too... demanding, involved? We are in the world of 1 cli…
The dreaded group project. So in your typical group of six you have a project manager, someone writing the functional specification, someone writing the technical specification, someone that does testing, someone that writes the manual, someone that parties rather than show up and nobody that codes!
I remember it well, five people waiting for someone to write some code before they could do their bit. Of course that code had to be in Ada rather than a vaguely useful language. Under such doomed-to-failure circumstances it is irrelevant what the project is, it might as well be 'Hello World'. So if some group does actually hand in code that allows for recipes to be searched for then I think that course is doing jolly well!
'Google Now' for food exists to a certain extent, if you do want to order pizza or get some other fast food in. I would like 'Google Now' for food that would factor in the fridge, the corner shop, the local super markets, their inventory levels and opening hours. It would be particularly cool if you could rustle up something amazing using just the local corner shop, perhaps someone should write one for the cash and carry company that all the corner shops use.
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#40Feedback: - The lack of an option to search only vegetarian recipes makes this pretty much useless for me. - Adding ingredients has a fairly large delay. I suspect some optimizations could be done there.
I'm unsure if having a 'vegetarian' option is the best way to go since there are about 40 different forms of vegetarian (I have been one for 15+ years). Maybe a better approach would be the ability to exclude ingredients and groups of ingredients. To me that solves a much bigger problem that I frequently have...I have three ingredients, but don't have the one that is generally required to go along with them (ie, I have olive oil, lemon, and garlic, but am out of basil).
If I can put in that I need a recipe without basil and without a category of meat or animal products (however, honey and egg are fine), that makes this infinitely more useful. If I can save that preference, that's even better.