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

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Post by chaxor »

JonathanBuchh wrote: post #30

It would be amazing if there was something that would convert recipes to the format used on Cooking For Engineers. It’s so intuitive and easy to read. I never want to look at steps to make a recipe again. Scroll to the bottom to see what I’m talking about: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...

This is nice.

I have always been interested in seeing a database which had consistent units and ingredients as well, such that pulling the full database and doing visualizations could be easily done.

This would also make the adjustment to the batch size for each recipe on each webpage much simpler.

"Want 1 Liter of dough for 2 banana bread loafs? Just change the amount output field and watch the values change". Type of thing.

Obviously I know heat transfer effects need to be taken into account and such for some things, but it would be at least a start . Then the real mass/heat transfer and such engineering fun can begin.

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

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Post by fzil »

mattschkolnick wrote: post #304
stuartbman wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use CookBook which scans websites, and OCRs cookbooks with good success! I have all my regular recipes on there now https://thecookbookapp.com/

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My man you have spammed your app at least three other times in this thread. At least contribute to the discussion before linking your page.

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

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Post by dron57 »

massysett wrote: post #272
spacemadness wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technology companies selling a solution to a problem created by technology companies instead of coming together to fix the original problem. This is the world we live in.

The original problem is that people want to Google for recipes and not pay for them. As a cook there are several solutions to this: 1) pay for a subscription from vendors who are in business to sell recipes, such as Cooks Illustrated 2) get recipes from companies that provide them as a complement because they sell something else, generally food-related products. For instance King Arthur Baking has good recipes, and m…

3) buy cookbooks

While cookbooks are great they're not easily searchable. If only I could ingest every recipe from every cookbook I bought into a personal database.

Hey that'd be a neat app idea!

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

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Post by notyourwork »

PolandKid wrote: post #285
candiddevmike wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The irony of having an ad supported app to scrape recipes from ad supported websites. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

@AwkwardPanda And how does a site opt out of your scraping? Do you have a unique user-agent when you scrape? A set of IPs?

You know the answer to this.

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

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Post by djur »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #257

Reading good food writers is the whole point of having good food writers. They can build an evocative sense of the time and place, the sense of why a recipie is the way it is. Its sometimes a personal journey, its sometimes escapism. And yes it changes - Elizabeth David sounds outrageously prissy to modern ears - but food has always been part of human culture, and as we evolve so will our food. Its fine to read the w…

I love good food writers, but most people who publish recipes online are not good food writers, and SEO tactics lead them to preface their recipes not with information about the development of the recipe or the food's cultural context, but with rambling space-filler about how it's summer now, and how it's nice to eat summer foods in the summer, and there are delicious farm-fresh veggies in the summer, and this summer veggie salad really tastes like summer, and how as a kid the author would also eat veggies in the summer, and how even though the author's husband ("the Truck-Drivin' Man") and their three boys ("Colt, Smith, and Wesson") normally don't like veggies that much, they really love this salad...

Interspersed liberally with enormous high-res photos of the finished product, the ingredients, stock photos of summertime, etc. And because those SEO tricks seem to work, this type of site absolutely dominates the search results for recipes. The recipes are often fine, too (probably because they're frequently cribbed from cookbooks with a few tweaks).

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

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Post by hahajk »

JonathanBuchh wrote: post #30

It would be amazing if there was something that would convert recipes to the format used on Cooking For Engineers. It’s so intuitive and easy to read. I never want to look at steps to make a recipe again. Scroll to the bottom to see what I’m talking about: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...

That’s pretty cool recipe formatting, but man that site has the least appetizing food photography I’ve seen in a long time.

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

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Post by tomredman »

artursapek wrote: post #243
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...

That guy had absolutely no conviction once he started getting called out. He did a complete 180 in the weakest way.

I mean, this is true. But it’s weird being in the center of that raging fire. We were worried about getting sued personally (there were lots of threats) and or having our family or work brought it into it. Lots of people tried to get me fired. In the moment, it just wasn’t a fight we wanted to fight.

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

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Post by pugworthy »

renewiltord wrote: post #104
Hard_Space wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I’ve got to be honest: those stories hold no value to me. That’s the truth. I don’t know why the WaPo wants those us who are like me to pretend otherwise.

Same. Usual routine is, "Hmm I think I'll make some buttermilk biscuits". I google it because I want to make them. I zero in on how basic the ingredients are (simpler the better for some things), maybe how many "stars" it has, or if the site is reputable.

But rarely do I go on a narrative stroll where I happened to stumble on a recipe that I decide I might make some day.

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

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Post by umvi »

hahajk wrote: post #326
JonathanBuchh wrote: post #30

It would be amazing if there was something that would convert recipes to the format used on Cooking For Engineers. It’s so intuitive and easy to read. I never want to look at steps to make a recipe again. Scroll to the bottom to see what I’m talking about: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...

That’s pretty cool recipe formatting, but man that site has the least appetizing food photography I’ve seen in a long time.

It's for engineers. Function > Form
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