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If anyone wants to know the stack it's Django/Postgres on the backend, and an Elm SPA frontend. All data goes through an undocumented REST API.
Nice work! Are you using mptt or treebeard under the hood to manage the forking?
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I'm a huge fan of the fact this does weight conversions (cooking by weight is now my favourite, and I've been looking for a site that is just weights, so this looks like a win to me :-) ). One note I'd make, though, is that US, UK and Australian cups are all different sizes. (and possibly others?) And from the one recipe I saw it looks like you're using UK cups? But, possibly not as well... Either way, it might be wo…
Some technical recipe books I've used just specify the weight of total egg. Not that useful for a home cook though.
For that matter, I'm curious what egg size descriptions is like in other countries; in Australian shops they're like condom sizes - I haven't seen 'small' or 'medium' eggs for over a decade.
I'm a huge fan of the fact this does weight conversions (cooking by weight is now my favourite, and I've been looking for a site that is just weights, so this looks like a win to me :-) ). One note I'd make, though, is that US, UK and Australian cups are all different sizes. (and possibly others?) And from the one recipe I saw it looks like you're using UK cups? But, possibly not as well... Either way, it might be wo…
I second Bruce's comment about cup sizes being regional. So are teaspoons and tablespoons for that matter. The wikipedia pages do reasonable coverage on this.
So good to clearly indicate which region's measurements are being used.
Always been a frustration of mine when reading recipes as having to figure out what country the recipe is published in to figure out what the measurements actually are. (Unless they are in metric, which is unambiguous.)
I had started on a similar idea a while back, but never got around to it. Even have a cute domain for it (pifork.com) in case you're interested :)
This is a great idea! My one criticism right off the bat is the name -- the pronunciation isn't immediately obvious. ("Sink?", "Kink?", "Kins?", "Since?") Then again, I don't know if that's just me...
It's meant to be a pun for "kitchen sink," and also to work with the notion of "sync"-ing. It's pronounced like "sink." Cinc is the number 5 in Catalan and refers to the amount of senses we use when cooking.
edit: Also should have known. "Cinq" is five in French as well.
this is a crazy fast site! can you share what you are using to host and serve it?
- it's an SPA, so it's mostly just doing API calls.
- the database is designed to be fast at a few orders of magnitude of size beyond its current state
- everything is gzipped
I'm a huge fan of the fact this does weight conversions (cooking by weight is now my favourite, and I've been looking for a site that is just weights, so this looks like a win to me :-) ). One note I'd make, though, is that US, UK and Australian cups are all different sizes. (and possibly others?) And from the one recipe I saw it looks like you're using UK cups? But, possibly not as well... Either way, it might be wo…
Love that you can convert the measurements to preferred units (such as metric). I second Bruce's comment about cup sizes being regional. So are teaspoons and tablespoons for that matter. The wikipedia pages do reasonable coverage on this. So good to clearly indicate which region's measurements are being used. Always been a frustration of mine when reading recipes as having to figure out what country the recipe is pub…
- "1 slice" (of bread) is not a valid quantity
- "to taste" (of black pepper) is not a valid quantity
Oh well. I guess I won't be using this then, at least not yet.