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Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by VRay »

mfashby wrote: post #47
whoomp12342 wrote: post #33

next level: mining the sites for the content and getting rid of the recipe's life story. to me, no-bs means ingredients and instructions. Maybe a few pictures of the target meal. thats it.

https://plainoldrecipe.com/ does this!

Man, what a disappointing thread.. the BBC site is great except it’s all weird British ingredients and units (how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale?)

The OP’s site is a really nice search engine, but it dumps you into the recipes’ unreadable SEO trash pit websites instead of parsing out the data

PlainOldRecipe isn’t working to strip recipes down for me

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by radihuq »

whoomp12342 wrote: post #33

next level: mining the sites for the content and getting rid of the recipe's life story. to me, no-bs means ingredients and instructions. Maybe a few pictures of the target meal. thats it.

Interestingly, someone built a recipe app with this narrative and received a ton of backlash online: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56241653

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by cacois »

radihuq wrote: post #63
whoomp12342 wrote: post #33

next level: mining the sites for the content and getting rid of the recipe's life story. to me, no-bs means ingredients and instructions. Maybe a few pictures of the target meal. thats it.

Interestingly, someone built a recipe app with this narrative and received a ton of backlash online: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56241653

I love how they say the content that users dislike is "relevant to the recipe", rather than admitting its SEO fodder.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by Larrikin »

VRay wrote: post #61
mfashby wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://plainoldrecipe.com/ does this!

Man, what a disappointing thread.. the BBC site is great except it’s all weird British ingredients and units (how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale?) The OP’s site is a really nice search engine, but it dumps you into the recipes’ unreadable SEO trash pit websites instead of parsing out the data PlainOldRecipe isn’t working to strip recipes down for me

Not sure if calling the metric system weird is actually serious or not but the solution is to get a scale. Modern cooking highly utilizes the scale and probe thermometers. They seem unimportant to the new cook but I end up using one or both for nearly all my meals now. Dry ingredients especially should be done by weight.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by kokekolo »

VRay wrote: post #61
mfashby wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://plainoldrecipe.com/ does this!

Man, what a disappointing thread.. the BBC site is great except it’s all weird British ingredients and units (how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale?) The OP’s site is a really nice search engine, but it dumps you into the recipes’ unreadable SEO trash pit websites instead of parsing out the data PlainOldRecipe isn’t working to strip recipes down for me

As someone who lived in the US for 8 years... How much is a cup?

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by par »

The search feature is nice, but I was sad when it took me to the normal recipe page. What I would really love to have is a very concise and succinct view of the recipe itself. Hopefully the next step is smart parsing of the recipe!

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by usui »

VRay wrote: post #61
mfashby wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://plainoldrecipe.com/ does this!

Man, what a disappointing thread.. the BBC site is great except it’s all weird British ingredients and units (how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale?) The OP’s site is a really nice search engine, but it dumps you into the recipes’ unreadable SEO trash pit websites instead of parsing out the data PlainOldRecipe isn’t working to strip recipes down for me

"it’s all weird British ingredients and units (how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale?)"

dear God please let this be satire, and make it satire if it isn't

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by PeterisP »

OJFord wrote: post #34
james_in_the_uk wrote: post #17

Looks good once the 404 issue is fixed. Perhaps for a future release you could tag / filter sources by country? A big problem for me in recipe search is avoiding localisation issues (e.g. Having to do all the conversions from cups; remembering that 'heavy cream' is somewhere in between single and double cream etc.)

I gave in and bought a set of US (not the old British, nor the metric..) cups in the end. I don't like it, but it beats using something else for a volumetric measurement.

IMHO it's better not doing volumetric measurement and doing everything by weight, having your mixing container on a scale the whole time and "resetting the weight" when adding new ingredients.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by ptrhvns »

par wrote: post #67

The search feature is nice, but I was sad when it took me to the normal recipe page. What I would really love to have is a very concise and succinct view of the recipe itself. Hopefully the next step is smart parsing of the recipe!

Well, maybe this tool, or you personally, could pipe the recipe through https://www.justtherecipe.com/.
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