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

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Post by samdafi »

focom wrote: post #128
samdafi wrote: post #73

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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

Much thanks!

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

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Post by linsomniac »

7sidedmarble wrote: post #115
linsomniac wrote: post #59

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…

I've been using paprika for a while but switched to whisk.

Can you tell our listeners why? :-)

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

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Post by anandrm »

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…

Just curious .. when YouTube has it all . Why text recipes ? Personally I feel when you know recipe visually it’s better .

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

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Post by domano »

anandrm wrote: post #163
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…

Just curious .. when YouTube has it all . Why text recipes ? Personally I feel when you know recipe visually it’s better .

I like to check the recipes when cooking

Also looking at step-by-step instructions allows me to quickly understand the recipe if i know most techniques involved. This way i sometimes just need a few seconds to absorb a new recipe or put it into mental cache while constructing my own based of multiple ones from the internet.

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

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Post by mattkrause »

pezezin wrote: post #148
markdown wrote: post #90

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TIL, Thanks!

I would like to point out a minor detail: "re-" as an intensifier is characteristic of the dialects of Argentina, Chile, and Mexico: https://www.fundeu.es/recomendacion/recontra-re-rete-requete... (article in Spanish) In most other dialects it just means "to do again", same as English. Your confusion is understandable, because even for me as a native Spanish speaker, using it as an intensifier sounds funny.

And even there, a bit contextual.

Comida recalentada is probably microwaved left-overs, not burnt scraps.

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

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Post by MacroChip »

seattle_spring wrote: post #9

Tangentially related, but if I were to run for president I'd run on a single issue platform: Imprison anyone involved with the current state of online recipes. Want to write your 10 page life story for baked mac & cheese? Boom, 5 years in the slammer. Want to put 12 different ads on your recipe for baked Alaska Char? 10 year minimum sentence. Involved in encouraging this behavior from the inside of Google? Sorry bub,…

I made https://thisfoodblogdoesnotexist.com because I think the life stories on those recipe sites are hilarious. My site uses GPT2 to generate blog content. I could pepper it with obnoxious fake ads...

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

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Post by seattle_spring »

MacroChip wrote: post #167
seattle_spring wrote: post #9

Tangentially related, but if I were to run for president I'd run on a single issue platform: Imprison anyone involved with the current state of online recipes. Want to write your 10 page life story for baked mac & cheese? Boom, 5 years in the slammer. Want to put 12 different ads on your recipe for baked Alaska Char? 10 year minimum sentence. Involved in encouraging this behavior from the inside of Google? Sorry bub,…

I made https://thisfoodblogdoesnotexist.com because I think the life stories on those recipe sites are hilarious. My site uses GPT2 to generate blog content. I could pepper it with obnoxious fake ads...

Ohhh my God that is amazing.

> Hi everyone! Today I am going to show you my recipe for 1-Dish Taco Bake. The recipe you see here is actually the recipe from my 4-week-old daughter, and it is a pretty simple one. When you get to the part where you have your dish in the oven, make sure it is not too hot. That's because the most important thing is to bake the dish as light as possible.

Now you just need to make the stories 25x as long and pepper it with ads!

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

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Post by oAlbe »

roel_v wrote: post #156
duxup wrote: post #46

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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 have a system based on Markdown-formatted (along with some custom markup for metadata) recipes on Dropbox, and some Python code that generates a formatted (as in, nice looking, like a proper cookbook) PDF cookbook. I then print the cookbook, make my notes in it, and once it gets too greasy/scribbled on, I consolidate the notes into the Markdown files and re-print. Every time I add a new recipe to my regular 'rotati…

Would you be willing to share your cookbook? It sounds like an absolutely interesting idea, and I'm really curious to see what it looks like.
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