All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Post by josefchen » Wed, May 27, 2026, 8:14 AM UTC

All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
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Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Post by leontrolski » Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:10 PM UTC

Neat.

I'm trying to compress recipes into little schematics https://leontrolski.github.io/recipes.html

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Post by haaz » Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:15 PM UTC

Published by Kaikaku, a London based startup doing automated restaurants and cooking

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Post by mapipolo » Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:16 PM UTC

leontrolski wrote: post #2

Neat. I'm trying to compress recipes into little schematics https://leontrolski.github.io/recipes.html

I love this! I bet you could make a successful recipe book based on this concept, with large schematics that a cook can read from a distance while working in the kitchen.

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Post by NiloCK » Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

leontrolski wrote: post #2

Neat. I'm trying to compress recipes into little schematics https://leontrolski.github.io/recipes.html

Ahh - the dependency graph recipe card. These are excellent. I've imagined something like this forever. Always annoyed that recipes put ingredients in a giant undifferentiated list and then give an instruction like "mix the dry ingredients in a deep bowl".

For a while I expected there could be a good return on a good implementation of this, but now as soon as a strong interface itself is created it seems easy to copy.

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Post by suddenlybananas » Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

I don't see why the title needs to be quite so grandiose.

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Post by michelb » Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC

leontrolski wrote: post #2

Neat. I'm trying to compress recipes into little schematics https://leontrolski.github.io/recipes.html

Nice! this reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/flowchartrecipes/ and the table view on the https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/87/Carrot-Pulp-Ca... pages.

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Post by danielvaughn » Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:24 PM UTC

leontrolski wrote: post #2

Neat. I'm trying to compress recipes into little schematics https://leontrolski.github.io/recipes.html

It's amazing how much more readable this format is. I love it.

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Post by teeray » Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:24 PM UTC

leontrolski wrote: post #2

Neat. I'm trying to compress recipes into little schematics https://leontrolski.github.io/recipes.html

I like it. Reminds me a bit of the table format on Cooking for Engineers (scroll to the bottom of the recipe): https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/19/Erics-Chocolat...

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Post by hkt » Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:25 PM UTC

leontrolski wrote: post #2

Neat. I'm trying to compress recipes into little schematics https://leontrolski.github.io/recipes.html

That is brilliant. Going to try some of yours then maybe transcribe my own favourites into the same format. You've struck on a great idea here.