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Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

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Post by Fnoord »

qrv3w wrote: post #15

I made this for fun with React and Go, its open-source if you want to hack it yourself. [1] I was inspired by the book "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" by Jennifer Reese. I tried to continue the idea to see how much money+time it costs to continually substitute an ingredient for the recipe of that ingredient. Sorry for the ads - I use them to make back the $ spent on the domain :). I just toned them down. Please let…

Fun, and the absurdity puts things in perspective.

Minor suggestions:

* Allow currency change (e.g. EUR instead of USD)

* Use + and - signs or green and red colors when hovering over the ingredients to show if money can be saved or not. Also put the amount of time in a different font size or color. (Site is very minimalist though which is great).

* Explain sources for price calculation (I'm skeptic about some, and curious who its based for).

Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

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Post by qrv3w »

zippzom wrote: post #37

Where did you generate the directions from?

I have a list of recipe "reactions" [1] which is compiled into a giant network of recipes. When a recipe is chosen, the directions are generated recursively from this network.

[1]: https://github.com/schollz/recursive-recipes/blob/master/rec...

Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

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Post by qrv3w »

satanic_pope wrote: post #25

That was fun! I know I'm nitpicking here but I see that some elements have not been broken down ( ex : cocoa powder in cookies) even on absurdly longer time scale. Regardless, good work. Intuitively, it can serve as a good resource to understand food composition for cooked items.

Thanks, I appreciate the nitpicking :)

Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

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Post by qrv3w »

Fnoord wrote: post #41
qrv3w wrote: post #15

I made this for fun with React and Go, its open-source if you want to hack it yourself. [1] I was inspired by the book "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" by Jennifer Reese. I tried to continue the idea to see how much money+time it costs to continually substitute an ingredient for the recipe of that ingredient. Sorry for the ads - I use them to make back the $ spent on the domain :). I just toned them down. Please let…

Fun, and the absurdity puts things in perspective. Minor suggestions: * Allow currency change (e.g. EUR instead of USD) * Use + and - signs or green and red colors when hovering over the ingredients to show if money can be saved or not. Also put the amount of time in a different font size or color. (Site is very minimalist though which is great). * Explain sources for price calculation (I'm skeptic about some, and cu…

Great suggestions. There are actually sources for the price calculations but I wasn't sure yet how to display them, or if they were wanted. If you want them then someone else probably does too so I can add that.

Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

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Post by z3t4 »

Wife: Can you bring me a glass of water ? Me: sure. One hour later ... Wife: What took you so long ? Me: I couldn't fill the glass because there where dishes, and the dishing machine was full, so I had to empty it, then I couldn't find the dishing tables, so I put the kitchen cabinet's in order, but accidentally spilled some flour, so I cleaned the floor and worktop while I where at it. Next day at work: Boss: Can you implement feature X ? Me: Sure ...

Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

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Post by jrhurst »

qrv3w wrote: post #15

I made this for fun with React and Go, its open-source if you want to hack it yourself. [1] I was inspired by the book "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" by Jennifer Reese. I tried to continue the idea to see how much money+time it costs to continually substitute an ingredient for the recipe of that ingredient. Sorry for the ads - I use them to make back the $ spent on the domain :). I just toned them down. Please let…

I know the first pull request I'm going to do for this one. Chicken and Egg goes on indefinitely.

Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

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Post by nyxtom »

Recipe substitutions would be great so you can have multiple ways of making the same thing. Someone else mentioned seawater and soil substitutions until you have a recipe for the universe. Though there are other ways to also grow food without soil (hydroponics).
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