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Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by germanier »

egeozcan wrote: post #133
askvictor wrote: post #54

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> Somewhat related, some sites call out egg weights too, and that might be something to try and do here too? 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.

In Germany, they are "S", "M", "L", "XL"; although I've seen "S" only once, ever.

Size S is usually sold to be processed and not to end-consumers. If you really want to buy them you probably have most luck in organic food supermarkets (unless you need a few europallets of them).

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by tedmiston »

melicerte wrote: post #139
tedmiston wrote: post #36

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> 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 be able to be voted on That'd be a nice edition to GitHub's forks page. Over there star count might be the best proxy.

I though the README.md and project stars was there for that precise reason. Am I wrong ?

On source repos, you're right. On forked repos, people often don't change the readme, and to see star repo counts of forks requires opening each repo individually.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by neoteo »

anotherevan wrote: post #55
bruce_one wrote: post #46

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…

In fact a country selector would allow not just measures to be adapted but also the ingredients (eg. in some countries dry-yeast is a lot harder to find than the regular kind). Cuts of meat are different too and you often have to resort to Wikipedia's language options to see what a tenderloin cut (say) is in your own language. Finally you could have alternatives with which you could swap out any missing ingredients.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by yellowapple »

keithasaurus wrote: post #64
yellowapple wrote: post #60

So I'm trying to submit my cheesy toast recipe as a test. Unfortunately, I can't: - "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.

those can be handled: 1 | slice bread (blank) | black pepper, to taste Some aspects of the UI/UX still need work. Thanks for the feedback.

I tried both of those; still complained about an invalid quantity.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by alexkadis »

papa_bear wrote: post #121
rojobuffalo wrote: post #16

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Hey I'm also working on this (separate from OP). In the meantime you might check out https://www.eatthismuch.com/ .

Thanks for the mention - I started ETM with a similar goal in mind. We have a "personalize this recipe" function that's functionally similar to forking, but we never expanded on it much. We're planning to improve the social and browsing features eventually, but have some other priorities to get to first. Also, cinc looks really nice - awesome work OP

I forgot about ETM! Thanks for creating it. Just logged back in and there was a friendly note about the new features (really good idea!). FYI there's one bug on the page:

Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

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The Eat This Much team

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by Toast_ »

pyedpiper wrote: post #75
Toast_ wrote: post #74

Looks good. I think you should also consider adding the "keto" diet on there as well. Maybe meals < 10 net grams of carbs?

yes, then it will be easier to avoid diets that assume our digestive system hasn't had any evolutionary pressure since the neanderthals...

I'm confused, do you actually think the ketogenic diet is based on a neanderthal diet?

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by Jaepa »

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)

Hey chewxy. I think I talked to you about FtC for a while when it came out(irc maybe?). Good to see you again.
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