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Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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These comments are so filled with cool projects and visualizations I’ll throw my own out there:

Trying to generate non-slop, print-worthy recipe books for different diaspora communities.

www.robotbookclub.com

I’m pretty sure the recipes have surpassed slop. The photos are pretty close. The layouts, intros, and “chef photos” need a lot of work though.

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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This will perhaps be overkill for what you're trying to achieve, but there is Object Process Methodology (OPM)[1] which may be inspiration for modelling recipes. It looks similar to the methodology you're using, and as an example, expects the following type of modelling: "peeling carrot" (process) consumes "washed carrot" (object) "peeling carrot" (process) yields "peeled carrot" (object) "peeling carrot" (process) y…

OPM looks like a great way to implement a free-style crafting system for a roguelike. I mean instead of having standard recipes that you have to assemble you could invent your own by putting together basic ingredients but then you need a way to know what comes out (and its effects I guess). I don't know if any existing games do that.

I mean Minecraft is quite similar in concept. Start with wood and stone and end up with an atomic bomb.

Also useful to watch Dr. Stone anime.

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Neat. I'm trying to compress recipes into little schematics https://leontrolski.github.io/recipes.html

I write down recipes similar to this. I realised one day it's very similar to how a makefile works: https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/cooking-with-make/

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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Neat. I'm trying to compress recipes into little schematics https://leontrolski.github.io/recipes.html

Thank you for sharing!

This is inspiring. Cooking is this sort of an activity that is simple enough to not be overwhelming but also complex enough to be very interesting.

Both in practice and in modelling :-)

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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> But the idea that tomato goes well with beef the whole world over is very interesting I saved a beef stew I was making for twelve people once by adding tomato sauce. Beef hardens if stewed incorrectly and tomato acid tenderises it again. EDIT: removed incorrect information about store bought tomatoes.

I have a hard time believing that that weak an acid can have a noticeable effect vs just the extra cooking time. Sorry for being a skeptic :-) Most of the time I deal with beef either it's the particular chunk of meat I bought that day or marinating it in salt for over a day or just stewing it for a long amount of time.

Never doubt the power of a weak acid in the right use though. Storing tomato sauce in plastic food savers is a good example

Re: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

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yeah I took a look at this and others and tried to pull together some helpful 'flavor maps': https://transcendent-choux-d1b930.netlify.app/

Have you also come across this? ‘Flavor network and the principles of food pairing’ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.6074

I haven't but looks cool!
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