I like the idea but it would be good if the recipes were tied to skills. It also doesn’t matter if you select a different level, you can still only pick the same things. It would also be good to select vegan or keto or gluten free to customize choices. The dishes seem very limited after starting, there’s nothing I don’t already know how to make. On the positive side I like that there’s no need to create an account to get started since I’ll probably delete this from my phone now that I’ve checked it out.
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#62What is the technology stack for your app?
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#63I haven't seen an recipes. Do you only support US measurements (cup, pint, oz, quart. etc)? That would be a pity.
We actually think recipes are mostly unimportant, but teaching the underlying principles are what's important. Measurements are more important for pastries but less important for stovetop/oven cooking.
The recipes we have right now are pretty easy for any English speaker to use. Our main content creator is from Australia, lives in Canada, and makes fun of the Imperial system all the time :)
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#64WOW this is basically what I've been wanting to build! Bravo!
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#65Why is it an app only? When I cook and follow a recipe I use my laptop as the screen is bigger and I can more easily press the keys with dirty fingers than I can a touch screen.
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#66I don't get it. there are literally millions of people offering free cooking videos on youtube, and getting better at cooking isn't difficult at all - you just follow instructions (often in video) and try over and over again until you find something you like. Is this sort of like a meal service without the delivery of ingredients?
Our idea is that as a beginner/novice, trying to find the right free cooking video, and getting better through repeated trial and error,
is inferior to
knowing that you have trustworthy information, a path to improvement, and the ability to track your progress over time.
Re: meal service without delivery of ingredients...yes! That's basically what experienced home cooks already do. But there's a few steps before we get there. Here's the vision: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/vision-part-one
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#67A filter for Pressure Cookers, adjustable by size, would be great.
Since buying a non-stick electric pressure cooker, I've gone from 95% takeout 5% cooking to the reverse. So incredibly easy to throw ingredients in and come back to multiple perfectly cooked meals.
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#68What is the technology stack for your app?
Native iOS, native Android, and Firebase.
At this stage of a product, iteration speed matters more than anything else.
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#69Why is it an app only? When I cook and follow a recipe I use my laptop as the screen is bigger and I can more easily press the keys with dirty fingers than I can a touch screen.
The core idea is that we don't really care about recipes, but about the underlying building blocks of knowledge to execute them.
It's an app because we realized that the best way to approach this problem is to actually separate cooking from learning to cook — instead of trying to do them at the same time, which is painful. This product was a pivot from a previous thesis, which I explain here: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/a-new-hope
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#70Very US centric so I won't use it for now, but it's a good start!