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So if we had a checklist format, we could easily derive a recipe format from that.
I now jot down rough notes in Obsidian when I make a meal I like, and let AI re-format it if I want to share the full recipe with somebody. This also lets me control the output: if I’m sending the recipe to somebody who is new to cooking, I might ask for a more detailed output than if they were only interested in my flavour combinations or specific techniques.
Many years ago I experimented with making recipes into Gantt charts. For more complex recipes this proved incredibly useful. I spent some time trying to automate turning some of the recipe formats into Gantts, but it was pretty cumbersome. I'll bet a good LLM would make this achievable now. For an example, here's a gantt chart for Beef Bourguignon: https://ibb.co/c3TVTnX Note that when I print it on a (physical) reci…
Here's an example. You'll need to scroll down to see the actual recipe format. https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/194/Cream-of-Mush...
Where you start with a list of all the nodes (ingredients)
Have a n:1 relationship with the next series of nodes (steps)
until you finish at a single node (the dish you're trying to make)
So instead of having a separate chunk of "here's my ingredients" and "let me repeat the ingredients and one by one instruction until the end" I figure you can display the upside-down tree to convey more information with less words.
An example being https://cookbook.cstebbins.com/recipe/bul-koki
With the underlying tree structure looking like https://assets.cstebbins.com/cookbook/images/bulkokiTree.png
Many years ago I experimented with making recipes into Gantt charts. For more complex recipes this proved incredibly useful. I spent some time trying to automate turning some of the recipe formats into Gantts, but it was pretty cumbersome. I'll bet a good LLM would make this achievable now. For an example, here's a gantt chart for Beef Bourguignon: https://ibb.co/c3TVTnX Note that when I print it on a (physical) reci…
Reminds me of the cookingforengineers.com format to some degree. Here's an example. You'll need to scroll down to see the actual recipe format. https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/194/Cream-of-Mush...
Just finished my own overthinking of recipe structures. I figure that a recipe is more or less an upside-down tree! Where you start with a list of all the nodes (ingredients) Have a n:1 relationship with the next series of nodes (steps) until you finish at a single node (the dish you're trying to make) So instead of having a separate chunk of "here's my ingredients" and "let me repeat the ingredients and one by one i…
With latest LLMs I feel there is less and less need to be structured about authoring recipes. I now jot down rough notes in Obsidian when I make a meal I like, and let AI re-format it if I want to share the full recipe with somebody. This also lets me control the output: if I’m sending the recipe to somebody who is new to cooking, I might ask for a more detailed output than if they were only interested in my flavour…
Just finished my own overthinking of recipe structures. I figure that a recipe is more or less an upside-down tree! Where you start with a list of all the nodes (ingredients) Have a n:1 relationship with the next series of nodes (steps) until you finish at a single node (the dish you're trying to make) So instead of having a separate chunk of "here's my ingredients" and "let me repeat the ingredients and one by one i…
