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Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by robotpony »

banana_giraffe wrote: post #21
flatiron wrote: post #11

I’ve always wanted to make a GitHub for recipes. You can fork recipes. Submit pull requests. Public and private repositories. Versioning and commit history. Share with friends, Etc.

I have a little pet project from a long time ago that I tried to start with this, it lets me describe recipes like this: Recipe|Turkey Stuffing I|4 C==French bread hand torn into small pieces (about 1/4 inch pieces) I|3/4 C==Butter I|3/4 C==Onion (minced) I|1 C==Celery I|1 Tbsp==Salt (less if bird is butterball or self basting) I|pinch==Pepper I|2 Tbsp==Sage, thyme, and marjoram mixture D|Melt butter in large skillet…

I used Markdown for recipes for more than a decade, where UL were ingredients, OL were steps, and you could use as many sets of both as needed. With some CSS and JS it worked pretty well, but wasn't super accessible for family members to add recipes to (but was great for me).

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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danpalmer wrote: post #33
neaden wrote: post #8

So as someone who cooks a lot, and gets frustrated by long blog like posts that lots of recipes have this day, this website is probably even less useful for me. The tagging system isn't being used correctly, Ham Sandwich is tagged with Banana for some reason. Speaking of Ham sandwich some of the recipes are just way too simple, this just tells me how to assemble a sandwich which I don't think anyone really needs. Tho…

> The Spaghetti Carbonara recipe actually has multiple mistakes One of them being that it's called "Spahetti Carbonara". Separately, the recipe calls for whole eggs rather than egg yolks. This is a somewhat contentious issue, and many chefs have opinions one way or another. This recipe appears like it's The Definitive Spa(g)hetti Carbonara, but doesn't acknowledge that many consider it to be incorrect. For me this is…

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Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by vanilla-almond »

peter_retief wrote: post #39
neaden wrote: post #8

So as someone who cooks a lot, and gets frustrated by long blog like posts that lots of recipes have this day, this website is probably even less useful for me. The tagging system isn't being used correctly, Ham Sandwich is tagged with Banana for some reason. Speaking of Ham sandwich some of the recipes are just way too simple, this just tells me how to assemble a sandwich which I don't think anyone really needs. Tho…

Yes it really does need some work. There is a need for a simple well curated recipe site though, there is always lots of interest.

"There is a need for a simple well curated recipe site though, there is always lots of interest"

Does BBC Food count? It's ad-free if you are in the UK (possibly not if you're outside the UK). It has a wealth of recipes and food-related content:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by linsomniac »

Maybe 6 months ago a previous discussion here led me to Paprika, an Android/iOS app, and I've been loving it. It is a paid app, $5, IIRC.

The killer feature is that you can be on a recipe in the browser and do "Share", pick Paprika, and it'll grab, almost without fail, the recipe from within the pages and pages of prose that most recipes have these days.

I also use the sharing so my wife has access to the same recipe set, though she doesn't use it as much as I do. I use the Photos feature, and also take notes about how it comes out if I want to make changes.

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