Banana and lime salad... please tell me no one is actually eating this.
Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site
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Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site
#122I think something like this could be really cool as a Gemini site
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#123Recipes are not copyright-able.. so technically the Wordpress recipe site I made my mother is also open-source. The website uses zero custom code and was very quick to assemble from open-source components.
I installed Delicious Recipes on it, a solid Wordpress plugin.
I only have a couple recipes on it, but you get the idea: gramybee.com
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#124I will keep coming back to check this out, and maybe add some recipes because I love cooking. But I’m not sure that “bloat” is a problem. For one, almost every recipe page has a “Jump to Recipe” option near the top. More so, with a new recipe I’m prone to start with a blogger who’s recipes I’ve already had great success with. I imagine “success” varies with taste buds, but it’s going to hard to convert me away. Finally, the best thing about cooking frequently (4-6x per week) is experimentation and learning and calibrating to your kitchen (different outcomes for different appliances). At this point, a recipe (or collection of recipes for the same dish) is like a reference point to build upon. I imagine this site would’ve been awesome for me 5 years ago when I felt comfortable only cooking 5 dishes (now around 50), and even then I’d need some consistent outcomes to keep coming back.
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#125I use my Google home to get recipes. Its pretty sweet because it cuts the cruft completely.
Someone needs to build a nice recipe web scraper for Wordpress :)
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#126I love the open source model, and there's some good looking recipes here!
Along similar lines, with similar goals, my wife and her dad have been building this as a pandemic project: https://www.recipereform.com/ -- I (who am admittedly biased) think it's pretty great. She inherited this style of recipe organization from her grandmother, and I love the formatting it of it, how clean the recipes end up looking and how fast / ad-free the site is.
I've been trying to get her hooked on HN for years. I showed her this thread and maybe this will convince her to make it open-source. Any feedback would be appreciated and helpful!
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#127A recipe site that anyone can contribute to has no aesthetic by definition. Having an aesthetic or point of view is one of the most desirable properties of recipe collection — it gives the unifying reason for why the collection is what it is, and who curated it. This isn’t the same thing as global knowledge, because cooking is more akin to art than science of facts.
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#128In general I've given up on recipe aggregate sites. I have to be half-familiar with the dish just to fix all the things wrong with the recipes I find. In my opinion, divorcing the recipe from the curator is a huge mistake and no amount of user reviews overcomes this. What I really want to see are the recipes that some specific person actually makes in their daily life. Not icons who publish more recipes under their n…
Shameless plug but I tried to do that at https://www.sammakesfood.com . I made videos for the recipes too, but you do not have to watch those. It was a hobby project (not monetized) so no garbage. If somebody did this with maybe 30-75 mainstays and added search, is that kinda what you’re looking for? I stopped because I wasn’t sure if it would help anybody. My family enjoyed the videos during the pandemic as an alter…
Great content man! Love the home made "bon appetit" vibe
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#129So 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…
I just started moving my recipes all to ... github. I find it easier to manage a bunch of markdown files than anything else. Also rewriting them lets me list ingredients as groups as far as what goes together in a bowl or whatever ...the laundry list of ingredients so many sites list drives me crazy. Outside of America's Test Kitchen... I've never found a blog's exposition on why they did what they did helpful. More…
> I find it easier to manage a bunch of markdown files
Org counterpart (single file), but similar story. Static html export is handy also.
> Also rewriting them lets me list ingredients as groups as far as what goes together in a bowl or whatever
Lol. Ingredient grouping. Nice to hear it’s not just me.
https://xenodium.com/cheese-cake-recipe-no-crust https://xenodium.com/oatmeal-cookie-recipe https://xenodium.com/dal-makhani-black-lentils-recipe
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#130I've been a "Copy Me That" user for years and years. It's delightful.
The meal-planner/shopping list feature is well worth the subscription: Add your meals for the week, then make a shopping list. The shopping list collects like items, joins their volumes/counts (if it can), and makes one big shopping list organized by category.
It makes shopping so much nicer.