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

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post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about raising the cow from a calf, though?

Most constituent lard is made from a pig. And pigs (while quite social) take pretty good care of themselves even if simply/only fed and watered. Depending on your environment, that might well be done by letting the pig go wander about and find feed and water.

What does that have to do with the time required?

Also, pretty sure we don't typically get milk from pigs.

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

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post #69

This is rubbish. Most of them just say go buy it. I truer refried beans and an English muffin. Plus it's a slow, crappy website

Have you played with the sliders? I don't think so.

Oops, my bad. I still feel like the site could use some work, that graph looks pretty pixelated... Great concept though.

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

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I love this: https://recursive.recipes/recipe/refried-beans?amount=10&tim... Totally absurd, but fun to play with. I do find sometimes it says it'll be cheaper to buy it, but in several cases I'm positive it's not, or the price of the product in store vs from the recipe isn't directly comparable. The example of refried beans is complicated. If you buy a can of refried beans, it won't be as high quality as the recipe…

What about raising the cow from a calf, though?

feed and water are very expensive, as is the calf

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

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post #29

Very nice! Suggestions: don't break the back-button; and make it somehow clearer that one can expand the recipes. As others I was also confused about "buy cookies in the store".

Thanks. I realized I was pushing the history on every React render(). I've fixed that now. The "buy cookies in the store" basically means that there is not enough time to make them so you should buy them (its a bit tongue in cheek). You can increase the time by using the slider or clicking on the cookies so you can get the actual directions. Also, if you hover your mouse over the "Chocolate Chip Cookies" ingredient y…

Hovering doesn't work very well on touch screens :-)

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

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Sorry too many obnoxious ads to stay longer than 5 seconds. Maybe put ads after you have a userbase?

I like the name and idea, but I agree that the ads are way too big - especially on mobile.

I don't see any ads. I'm using Firefox on my Moto G5+.
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