Wow. I really like this, but I want it to support non-dairy options.
Plus one!
Good idea, added! If you have only vegan dairy checked, it'll go for vegan butter too. :)
https://www.absurdlyoptimized.com/recipes/pancakes/?have=soy...
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#52That's serious commitment for sure, but - I don't know, the image makes it seems like he low-key burned his pancakes 8-\
I agree, this seems like a lot of really excellent work from someone with a completely different pancake baseline than I have. The word 'crispy', in my world, has no business applying to pancakes. That's what bacon is for.
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#53A ten hour wait doesn't really strike me as a pancake? You should have a "it's 730am, there's four screaming girls, only two of which are related to me, the dogs are begging for scraps, and the demand for pancakes has crossed into Veblen goods territory."
The default has the 'tang' slider at maximally tangy, which is where the yeast and wait come in. If you back off on that the recipe looks more like the standard quickbread I'm used to. The yeast and ferment is going to make it more acidic, and more tender because the gluten will be weakened. I imagine you could use cake flour instead and get close to the same tenderness, but the flavor would be different.
Maybe add a time-to-pancake slider?
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#54I'd love to see a "Labne" option
Added! Let me know how it turns out! https://www.absurdlyoptimized.com/recipes/pancakes/?have=lab...
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#55you had me interested at the word "pancake" but I ain't gonna do maths to get it
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#56I want to like this but it reads like Claude output, how much scrutiny did this get for accuracy?
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#57Protip: you don't need buttermilk, you need milk and acid. 1 cup milk and 1tbsp vinegar do the same job and are already in your kitchen. Source: Frank Proto's pancakes https://youtu.be/vkcHmpKxFwg?si=a9GeGHKp0WzTmqPr
Sometimes. Note that both your ingredients are liquids, however. I use buttermilk powder for quite a few recipes so that I can control the liquid content independently of the acid and fat content.
I feel your pain - dealt with a lot of those calculations so the calculator could avoid powders!
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#58Wow, that was. impressive :-)
A few random thoughts I had while reading this, in more or less the order they appeared:
1. The relation/connection between optimization and the hedonistic treadmill
2. That this combination of enthusiasm, curiosity, intelligence, rigor and inventiveness/creativity would be exactly what I would look for in a technical co-founder
3. What other parameters that we don't know about or are in a different dimension than those mentioned here (ingredients, amount, time etc.) would also push the needle?
4. This is why we can have nice things :-)
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#59You need a teflon-coated caliper to measure the batter puddles. And one of those point and click thermometers.
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#60I want to like this but it reads like Claude output, how much scrutiny did this get for accuracy?
We’re using vastly different models, then, because it doesn’t read like any generated text I’ve seen before.