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Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by keithasaurus »

chewxy wrote: post #80
Jaepa wrote: post #41

The idea for this has been around for a for a while. http://forkthecookbook.com/ goes back to 2012. And its an interesting idea. Recipes can't be copyrighted and and recipes are generally derivative. The data is generally well structured, and fairly standardized (ingredients, equipment, instructions, photo, with optional fields for prep & cook time, servings, notes, difficulty, etc). But there are two primary issues:…

hello, FtC author here... it's mainly a zombie project now (you know, dead, but still has active users)

i like some of the ui ideas on your site. nice work.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by anotherevan »

rojobuffalo wrote: post #59
anotherevan wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I was under the impression that the Imperial (UK) measures were mostly no longer used. Is that wrong?

Not sure on that, but there are more regions than just the US and UK. For instance, here in Australia a teaspoon[1] is 15ml, not 14.92ml, and a tablespoon[2] equals four teaspoons, not three, so 20ml, not 14.8ml.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaspoon#United_States_customa...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablespoon#Traditional_definit...

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by codefined »

anotherevan wrote: post #82
rojobuffalo wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was under the impression that the Imperial (UK) measures were mostly no longer used. Is that wrong?

Not sure on that, but there are more regions than just the US and UK. For instance, here in Australia a teaspoon[1] is 15ml, not 14.92ml, and a tablespoon[2] equals four teaspoons, not three, so 20ml, not 14.8ml. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaspoon#United_States_customa... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablespoon#Traditional_definit...

Currently living in the UK, perhaps 90% of the recipe books and equipment I currently have in my house are Imperial.

Definitely do value that as an option.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by taherchhabra »

Is there a way to compare how it actually tastes? , These days I am baking cakes by watching recipes on youtube, the texture always comes correct and I use exact weights as described but the taste is somewhat lacking. It would be good if we can give reference to a local cakeshop for its similarity to the recipie

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by sandinmyjoints »

keithasaurus wrote: post #58
julee04 wrote: post #25

this is a crazy fast site! can you share what you are using to host and serve it?

AWS/nginx on a fairly minimal instance. speed probably comes from: - 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

And no ads, unlike pretty much every other free site with recipes!

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by noway421 »

thearn4 wrote: post #67

An analog to Travis CI for this would be interesting and delicious. An analog to Docker images would be something like Blue Apron or Hellofresh I guess.

>An analog to Travis CI for this would be interesting and delicious.

Surprised it is not a startup yet..

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by colordrops »

ghayes wrote: post #31
NickBusey wrote: post #3

This looks promising and fairly well done, but it's lacking a few critical features IMO. The first obvious one is a way to Diff a recipe and it's Forks (unless I missed that). The harder and maybe more important one, is an issue that GitHub itself still hasn't figured out how to solve either. There should be a process for a fork of a recipe being able to explain why it is better than the original, and have the fork b…

My first thought was to remove "Vegan Butter" from the chicken recipe (or move it into a "Dietary Substitutions"), but then I realized my forked recipe would probably just be lost in the void. Maybe the goal of forks should be more akin to pull requests?

Seems that "Dietary Substitutions" could be a first-class data type. It would be a named multi-map of one item to another one. So you could create you own "Dietary Substitution Map" named "Nut allergies" or "Halal" or "Vegan", with butter -> canola oil, milk -> soy milk, milk -> almond milk, etc.

Then you could pick the particular substitution map that you care about and avoid forking recipes unnecessarily and have most recipes support most diet types if the proper map exists.

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