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Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by johnday »

VRay wrote: post #116
kwhitefoot wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale? A web search will turn up dozens of helpful sites that will do the conversion for you. Or the US could try joining the rest of the world.

Haha, yeah. I wanted to turn my flour, milk, and baking powder into pancakes, but it’s surprisingly nightmarish to get the two floating point numbers I need in order to get the ratios right “Why not simply…”

I assure you that the optimal way to turn flour, milk and baking powder [no eggs? -Ed.] into pancakes is to keep trying different ratios until it works properly.

There's a LOT of variance in flour, milk and baking powder that make attempts at measurement based recipes a fool's errand.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by 10000truths »

amflare wrote: post #112
m12k wrote: post #31

Great idea! But please read https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

> Considering only positive and negative ratings (i.e. not a 5-star scale) Is there anywhere that details the changes necessary to use for other rating scales (such as the 5-star/10-star system)?

You could just convert the 5-star scale to weighted upvotes/downvotes, like so:

  1 stars = 0.00 upvote, 1.00 downvote
  2 stars = 0.25 upvote, 0.75 downvote
  3 stars = 0.50 upvote, 0.50 downvote
  4 stars = 0.75 upvote, 0.25 downvote
  5 stars = 1.00 upvote, 0.00 downvote
And then calculate as usual, and then re-map the result of the formula from the [0, 1] interval to the [1, 5] interval.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by madamelic »

cacois wrote: post #64
radihuq wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly, someone built a recipe app with this narrative and received a ton of backlash online: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56241653

I love how they say the content that users dislike is "relevant to the recipe", rather than admitting its SEO fodder.

It's actually not SEO fodder (necessarily).

Recipes are not copyrightable but if you pair a recipe with a story, the entire deliverable is copyrightable [0] because the recipe becomes a work of expression rather than a rote list.

> In other words, a bare recipe, without literary expression, is not copyrightable

[0]: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3741a5c0-f146....

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by leobg »

lighttower wrote: post #122
m12k wrote: post #31

Great idea! But please read https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

How does Amazon, a trillion dollar company, not make this solution default!

Well, how don’t they filter spam reviews? My guess: They earn whenever you buy. And they are a monopoly when it comes to online shopping. So even if you buy crap, you’ll buy from them again. If anyone gets blamed, it’s going to be the seller. The house always wins.

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by leobg »

I love the tabulated recipes shown on cookingforengineers.com [1].

Ever since I first saw this, whenever I get a recipe, from anywhere, I convert it by hand to this format.

Perhaps you can automate that process? That would be rad!

[1] http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...

Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

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Post by huhtenberg »

m12k wrote: post #31

Great idea! But please read https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

It shouldn't be sorted by rating to begin with.

If I search for "doughnuts", it's rather unlikely that I'm interested in "Chapssal doughnuts" (top spot), "Pumpkin Doughnuts" (second spot) or even "Gluten-Free Baked Chocolate Doughnuts Recipe" (third spot).

The list should be ordered (somehow, no idea how) by classic or common interpretation of the query first and pushing exotics, varieties and fusion stuff down to the very bottom.

Another one is "sourdough" - "Caesar Salad with Sourdough Croutons" is the top suggestion, followed by "Hard-Boiled Eggs and Parmesan on Toasted Sourdough" and "Radicchio Salad with Sourdough Dressing". Not exactly relevant.

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