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

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Post by lelandbatey »

davestephens wrote: post #157
boringg wrote: post #147

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I don't think its SEO fodder I think its to space out the page so you have to scroll through multiple advertisements so they get their revenue. Either way its total garbage.

Yeah. Screw those guys trying to make a living!

I mean, yeah trying to make a living by annoying the snot out of people is a thing that people don't like. It's the "business-model-belle of the ball" at the moment, but that doesn't mean we folks subjected to it have to like it, nor is it somehow "morally wrong" to object to being inconvenienced.

You can try to diminish the real-world confusion and inconvenience of said business model by saying "cmon, it's not that bad, what's the big deal, why not let them make some money, why you gotta be such a stick in the mud?" That does nothing to reduce my or other peoples annoyance and lost time caused by said business model though. It's real, it does waste my time, and your time, and everyone else's time, it does inconvenience us, and it does make it harder to get the information we want.

Because of that, I'm glad to see these other websites arrive to replace blogspam recipe mills. I plan to use websites like http://www.cookingforengineers.com and https://stovetop.app/ search for most all my recipes going forward. Thanks OP for stovetop and thanks to other commenters here for posting more resources for us to use.

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

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Post by ubercore »

leobg wrote: post #126

I love the tabulated recipes shown on cookingforengineers.com [1]. Ever since I first saw this, whenever I get a recipe, from anywhere, I convert it by hand to this format. Perhaps you can automate that process? That would be rad! [1] http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...

Wow that's really interesting, thanks for sharing. I find it wildly unintuitive but it's nice to be pushed into a different way of thinking about recipes!

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

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Post by yesenadam »

bluGill wrote: post #168
sumtechguy wrote: post #153

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You are so correct on the order and timing of items. Everyone in my family was trying to make my grandmothers cookies. I was the only one who went over and documented exactly how she made them. Now that she is gone. I have been designated as the only one who 'knows how to make them'. Even though I proclaim loud and clearly and have documented 'you must make them exactly like this or they will not taste the same'. The…

And now I want the recipe. Two days ago please, I want the cookies now.

Off-topic but I might get an answer here:

I used to have a great recipe (I) called "15 minute cookies". The total time from first thinking about making them to eating - including preparation and cooking - was 15 minutes. Which was almost always irresistible, so I often made them. Somehow I lost the recipe. Does anyone know what that recipe might be? Thank you!

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

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Post by dharmab »

LordAtlas wrote: post #111
dharmab wrote: post #48

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It's an expensive paid subscription, but the America's Test Kitchen website is basically a professionally maintained cooking information index. The standards of information are much higher than a wiki (they do scientific method testing of every tool, technique and recipe). Unfortunately there is one thing that annoys me, which is that there are full page ads for their other products, even if you are already a subscri…

As an Indian, I've found some of their Indian food recipes on Youtube to be downright terrible.

I wouldn't know- I ask my mom for Indian recipes, and she gets them from other Indian moms on YouTube. I use ATK for western food, especially southern food.

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

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Post by Moru »

VRay wrote: post #116
kwhitefoot wrote: post #73

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> how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale? A web search will turn up dozens of helpful sites that will do the conversion for you. Or the US could try joining the rest of the world.

Haha, yeah. I wanted to turn my flour, milk, and baking powder into pancakes, but it’s surprisingly nightmarish to get the two floating point numbers I need in order to get the ratios right “Why not simply…”

No baking powder would be a start. The rest is just 3-6-3. That is 3 eggs, 6 dl milk, 3 dl flour and a pint of salt and some melted butter or oil.

The road to my hometown is called 363 so easy to remember. Just have to figure out which of them was the milk now again.

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

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Post by Moru »

VRay wrote: post #141
Mikeb85 wrote: post #77

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Volume measurement for flour is inconsistent and annoying. Metric and by weight is by far the best format for recipes and best way to measure ingredients. In professional kitchens it's all we ever used (I used to work in some top restaurants, talking world's 50 best back in the day).

Oh, that's good to know. Maybe it's time to invest in a kitchen scale. (And I'll buy an actual cookbook while I'm at it, so I won't have to deal with this SEO disaster any more..) EDIT: Hey, wait, I actually found a good website with recipes: http://online-cookbook.com/goto/cook/rpage/000DDF and a good search engine: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=pancake+recipe&pro...

A scale makes for less dishes too. Just reset the scale and pour next ingredient into the bowl. No need to use another spoon to dig from the flour or sugar bag.

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

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Post by _carbyau_ »

jonathankoren wrote: post #162
Mikeb85 wrote: post #95

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And now you can buy a digital scale for like $20. It's the 21st century, weight measurements are way more accurate, easier too for small quantities.

It's almost as if legacy recipes don't exist, nor are very important to people, nor have working knowledge built around these units.

While this is true and adds effort, it is relatively easy to convert them too.
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