Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

showcase.onlyrecipe.app

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

101–110 of 360 posts

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

#101

Post by Symbiote »

hellweaver666 wrote: post #69
AwkwardPanda wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if that conversion can be done in a generic way.

As a metric user, imperial format recipes are the bane of my existence. I swear to god some Americans don't realise the rest of the world uses a whole other system.

I put "UK" in most English recipe searches where it might matter.

The recipe itself is likely to be a bit less sweet, and my ingredients (purchased in Denmark) are also closer to those sold in Britain than the American versions. Things like types of cream, lack of sugar added to slightly-processed ingredients etc.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

#102

Post by adwww »

hellweaver666 wrote: post #69
AwkwardPanda wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if that conversion can be done in a generic way.

As a metric user, imperial format recipes are the bane of my existence. I swear to god some Americans don't realise the rest of the world uses a whole other system.

I've acquired three types of table spoon in my kitchen drawer. The largest is nearly double the smallest. It's absurd that this is an actual unit of measure.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

#103

Post by mdaniel »

stuartbman wrote: post #87
JonathanBuchh wrote: post #30

It would be amazing if there was something that would convert recipes to the format used on Cooking For Engineers. It’s so intuitive and easy to read. I never want to look at steps to make a recipe again. Scroll to the bottom to see what I’m talking about: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...

I use CookBook which scans websites, and OCRs cookbooks with good success! I have all my regular recipes on there now https://thecookbookapp.com/

For those similarly unable to find the pricing, it's hidden under a link on the Sign Up page: https://help.thecookbookapp.com/hc/en-gb/articles/3600025945...

Currently, some different money for recipes as a service, and the weird price of $41 for a "lifetime" subscription

It will interest this audience that they have a public roadmap, too: https://roadmap.thecookbookapp.com/cookbook

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

#104

Post by renewiltord »

Hard_Space wrote: post #64
mirthturtle wrote: post #9

Someone tried this a while back and it didn't go so well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2021/03/02/recipeasly-fo...

From the WP article: But it’s even more complex than that. The stories are personal. They’re cultural. They’re often told from the perspective of women, immigrants and people of color who have created and invested in a platform to share their stories. The recipe aggregator sites, bloggers note, basically tell the creators that their stories have no value. It’s the same message America has told immigrants and women fo…

I’ve got to be honest: those stories hold no value to me. That’s the truth. I don’t know why the WaPo wants those us who are like me to pretend otherwise.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

#105

Post by mattkrause »

hiptobecubic wrote: post #65
rjzzleep wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. SEO. I've been recommended to have a ghostwriter write technical articles for me to increase my client base. Build enough of a cult following and you can be sure that your youtube channel, or next book has enough of an audience. 2. I think it also appeals to a certain audience. It makes them feel open minded to other cultures. There's an emotional bond forming with the story or the people in the story. Don't forge…

I have literally never met anyone express (2). Any time anyone needs a recipe site they immediately start complaining about it, unprompted.

Smitten Kitchen often has a few paragraphs before the recipe. I don't always read it, but I also don't hate it.

It helps she writes well and it seems to genuinely reflect the author's life--I think it started out as a personal blog with occasional recipes before becoming a recipe site with bloggy bits bolted on. The text is also fairly helpful, in that it sometimes describes less successful attempts cooking the same thing, or compares it with other dishes ("If you hate X, try [this] instead").

This may be a rare exception though--I agree that a lot of other recipe sites have tons of vacuous filler.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

#106

Post by hnrodey »

js2 wrote: post #100

The comments on recipe sites are often useful. Things like: pre-heat your mason jars before pouring in the caramelized sugar or they'll crack. You can find clarifications, or things people have substituted, or just how a recipe has failed for some folks. There's a handful of recipe sites I tend to stick to. Smitten Kitchen, All Recipes, Serious Eats, NYT Cooking. I also have a few favorite cooking books: On Food and…

Aggregating to handwritten version is very nice. A recipe box is a terrific artifact to hand down through generations.

Congrats.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

#107

Post by AwkwardPanda »

cryptonym wrote: post #21
AwkwardPanda wrote: post #2

It can get frustrating skimming through text walls just to find the recipe on blogs/sites. Authors do it to get high ranking on Google. You can use OnlyRecipe.app to extract the recipe information. It works on almost all sites/blogs which follow a recipe standard when they post. You can also save it to your phone directly using the app. Scan recipe QR code using your phone camera and voila. Android: https://play.goog…

Spending time writing user-hostile recipe for SEO purpose, then someone else building an app trying to undo this and finally the end user spending time installing app, scanning QR code and going back to the original user-hostile website because the app didn't get milk quantity. Now I'm too tired to cook anything.

Hey can you share the url.. I will fix small issues like this..

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

#109

Post by njovin »

markstos wrote: post #74

Better: Use AnyList. It has a feature to import recipes. The result is that not only get to view a clean copy of a recipe, but a clean copy is stored in AnyList for easy reference later.

I'll second this recommendation. I started using Anylist last year and it's incredible. My weekly grocery flow goes like this now:

- Skim a few recipe sites for anything new I want to try

- 1-click import them to Anylist (using the browser extension)

- Add recipes to the weekly meal plan in Anylist

- Click "Add all ingredients" for each recipe, which automatically puts all ingredients for the recipe into my shopping list.

One of my favorite things is that it automatically categorizes the list items by store section, making the shopping much easier.

It doesn't work with every recipe site, though (traeger.com for example), but it works with most.

There are two features I wish it had that would make it nearly perfect:

1. Ability to create my own categorization rules. For example, "whole peeled tomatoes with their juices" gets categorized as beverage, and I can manually recategorize that specific item, but it would be nice to create a rule for wholepeeledtomato* that puts it in the "Canned Goods" category

2. The ability to exclude ingredients from being added to the list. I always have salt, pepper, and olive oil on hand, but I end up having to manually cross a dozen of those off my shopping list when I add ingredients for the week when nearly every recipe inevitably includes them.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

#110

Post by y04nn »

It is interesting that there is not yet a Wikipedia of recipes. It would be the perfect use case for a wiki. People would love to share their recipes variations and improve/fix existing one.

There would be a standard layout, introduction paragraph would explain the history of a recipe and link to other similar recipes. That would be interesting to read.

And there would be an endless number of recipes. For-profit sites are full of ads and SEO optimized to improve user retention/engagement, which make them annoying to use. A wiki could be print friendly and distraction-free, which would be perfect for a recipe.

Post reply on HN