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Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by fknorangesite »

Hard_Space wrote: post #64
mirthturtle wrote: post #9

Someone tried this a while back and it didn't go so well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2021/03/02/recipeasly-fo...

From the WP article: But it’s even more complex than that. The stories are personal. They’re cultural. They’re often told from the perspective of women, immigrants and people of color who have created and invested in a platform to share their stories. The recipe aggregator sites, bloggers note, basically tell the creators that their stories have no value. It’s the same message America has told immigrants and women fo…

Yeah.

> It’s the same message America has told immigrants and women for centuries

I certainly won't deny this point conceptually, but it assumes that the stories are even true in the first place.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by idontwantthis »

y04nn wrote: post #110

It is interesting that there is not yet a Wikipedia of recipes. It would be the perfect use case for a wiki. People would love to share their recipes variations and improve/fix existing one. There would be a standard layout, introduction paragraph would explain the history of a recipe and link to other similar recipes. That would be interesting to read. And there would be an endless number of recipes. For-profit site…

I don't think it would make sense to let everyone edit recipes. One person's "improvement" is another person's "travesty". Try adding garlic to carbonara and see what your insult:compliment ratio is.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by littlecranky67 »

anamax wrote: post #118
littlecranky67 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure about the US or the EU in general, but in Germany at least databases - even if they solely consist of trivial, non-copyrightable data - are still copyrighted. This law was put into place after a company in Germany just hired people to type of physical copies of Phonebooks and the yellowpages, and sold a "phonebook" on CD. A name+phonenumber pair isn't copyrightable, but the collection as a whole is (at least…

In the US, the facts in a phone book (names, numbers, addresses) are not copyrightable and neither is the collection. However, see the bit at the end about compilations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R... . I wonder whether "fake facts" (bogus names, numbers, addresses) are copyrightable. If they are, they can be used to give copyright protection to a collection even when the bulk of the…

Those fake facts are a thing and have a name [0], they are placed into phonebooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias etc. to detect copyright violations (i.e. somebody else stealing your compilation).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by brewtide »

mvexel wrote: post #93

As some other commenters have said -- often, the "print" function will give you a more concise / readable version. I keep a recipe folder with PDFs "printed" from recipe web sites. It would be nice if this app would support printing. It does a great job reducing this recipe page to its essentials: https://onlyrecipe.app/?url=https://cookieandkate.com/best-v... but when I try to print, the preview shows a blank page (…

I believe this is by design. If you subscribe to their "premium" model, it lets you print as usual.

Honestly, not a terrible way to make money, while offering a free service.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by mfashby »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #81
mfashby wrote: post #66

similar discussion recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29161585 similar open-source program plainoldrecipe https://plainoldrecipe.com/

https://plainoldrecipe.com/recipe returns a HTTP 400 error, https://plainoldrecipe.com/ does not.

Ah thanks, fixed

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by Symbiote »

adwww wrote: post #102
hellweaver666 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a metric user, imperial format recipes are the bane of my existence. I swear to god some Americans don't realise the rest of the world uses a whole other system.

I've acquired three types of table spoon in my kitchen drawer. The largest is nearly double the smallest. It's absurd that this is an actual unit of measure.

Assuming we're talking about measuring spoons (since table cutlery can be any volume, according to the design), I first wrote "a metric tablespoon measure is 15mL exactly, by definition." The US one is almost the same, and Australia is weird with 20mL.

But now I see Germany changed the definition at some point, and a 15mL spoon is an Alter Esslöffel, with a Moderner Esslöffel being 7.5mL. Can a German confirm this, or clarify which is used in practise?

The other European countries I've checked use 15mL (if they use the measure at all).

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essbesteck#Verwendung_als_Ma.C...

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by vestrigi »

hnrodey wrote: post #106
js2 wrote: post #100

The comments on recipe sites are often useful. Things like: pre-heat your mason jars before pouring in the caramelized sugar or they'll crack. You can find clarifications, or things people have substituted, or just how a recipe has failed for some folks. There's a handful of recipe sites I tend to stick to. Smitten Kitchen, All Recipes, Serious Eats, NYT Cooking. I also have a few favorite cooking books: On Food and…

Aggregating to handwritten version is very nice. A recipe box is a terrific artifact to hand down through generations. Congrats.

Nice if you get the recipes right on the first time but tedious if you like to update recipes and add comments. At least for handwriting perfectionists.

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Post by cvg »

floatrock wrote: post #61
2bitencryption wrote: post #11

What is the reason that every single recipe site, without fail, follows this same horrible pattern? I.e. the twenty paragraph "When I was a child growing up in Atlanta..." followed by a crappy in-house video player followed by, finally, the actual recipe? My assumption is SEO? For some reason, Google must really like having tons of text on your page, and dislikes simple "here's the recipe"? etc? Second question - any…

Because "Recipes" are one of about a dozen categories for which google defines special Structure Data formats, which allows presumably-high-clickthrough results page features like the rich media carousel previews, etc. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure... If you want to know what categories of things will have especially horrendous (ie clickbait-optimized-to-hell) results, look at the other…

This is interesting. Looks like the app might be just parsing this schema from the webpage and adding a nice ui.
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