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Re: Show HN: RecipeWriter – An editor to write recipes

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This is incredibly neat, I love it. I haven't used it extensively, but would there be any way to easily export things so you can import it to say AnyList for shopping? I normally would just use Paprika for this, however the recipes here looks gorgeous. edit: Also, I forgot to mention but it's a bit annoying that there's an upper limit to password length.

You can use longer passwords now!

Re: Show HN: RecipeWriter – An editor to write recipes

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Cannot click the footer links, it keep pulling more data and pushing it down. Was trying to get to about, faq etc.

A long pending complaint. Been keeping it to the backburner for a while. SOrry about that. The auto loading stops after a while and becomes user triggered.

Meanwhile here is the link you were looking for http://cucumbertown.com/humans

Re: Show HN: RecipeWriter – An editor to write recipes

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Aside: from the vid, what are "2ons" of onion? I've searched and can't find it on Wikipedia. Google's doing it's thing of not letting me limit SERPs to those with the terms I want (yes even when they're in ""). I found a couple of recipes that mention "X ons" of ingredient but ... is it USA ounces to distinguish from "oz" as imperial ounces? It's not in the Dummies book, not on Betty Crockers list, not on Wikipedia,…

In the vid they say '2 nos', not 'ons' for onions and also '4 nos' for lasagna sheets. I'm guessing whoever typed that thought units were required and typed a variant of 'nºs' to mean 'numbers'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numero_sign

Lol, yes, now you mention it ... oops.

Re: Show HN: RecipeWriter – An editor to write recipes

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I have been typing up all of my recipes off of my sticky notes. (Using a WordPress plugin called RecipePress.) My biggest annoyance that I thought your editor might fix is repeating myself.

Say I'm making spaghetti. In the steps I want to just type "boil 1 lb spaghetti in 4 cups water for 4-5 minutes" and have the tool parse the "1 lb spaghetti" out into the ingredient list. As it is, I have to type "spaghetti" twice. I know it may seem lazy, but when you are entering hundreds of these things it gets annoying.

Looks like the parsing code might already be there since you're doing it to the ingredient list. Anyway, looks miles ahead of what I'm using. I've been a Cucumbertown member for a long time but haven't visited much, looks like a lot has improved!

Re: Show HN: RecipeWriter – An editor to write recipes

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I have been typing up all of my recipes off of my sticky notes. (Using a WordPress plugin called RecipePress.) My biggest annoyance that I thought your editor might fix is repeating myself. Say I'm making spaghetti. In the steps I want to just type "boil 1 lb spaghetti in 4 cups water for 4-5 minutes" and have the tool parse the "1 lb spaghetti" out into the ingredient list. As it is, I have to type "spaghetti" twice…

Ha! You have just suggested a terrific feature. I have no idea how we could implement something like that even with the parsing logic. I mean, we see way too many writing patterns on a restricted ingredient entry area itself. So imagining the multitude of edge cases makes my head spin:)

But will definitely give it a shot. We had something like this planned early on, but were too scared to try it out. And yes, we have been improving a lot on the site, please do come frequently:)

Re: Show HN: RecipeWriter – An editor to write recipes

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you cross a threshold of recipes, we assign the domain. Else the whole page looks very empty.

Is that threshold a secret?

Nope. 300 points. Each recipe can be crave/rated for points.
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