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

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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...

I also like the modernist cuisine format, example here: https://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/silky-smooth-macaroni-and-cheese/

I can't stomach using anything by Nathan Myhrvold

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

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I'll take this opportunity to mention one of my favorite apps: Paprika [0]. It's a recipe app that can import from just about every recipe site/blog/etc and if it can't auto-import it then you can use the really easy tools to grab all the pertinent information. Once imported you can edit/scale/rate/tag/categorize/etc the recipe. Furthermore it has meal planning tools and a grocery list built in. I love the grocery li…

This is fantastic and does a great job distilling pages of information, ads and videos down too easy to follow steps and ingredients.

We subscribe to a meal service called fresh prep which comes ad the problem from the other side, removing some prep and having to ask the question "What's for dinner". I think this is the killer feature Paprika is missing, browsing meal ideas that can be imported and added to your planner.

There is still lots of room for disruption in this space, thanks for sharing.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also like the modernist cuisine format, example here: https://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/silky-smooth-macaroni-and-cheese/

I can't stomach using anything by Nathan Myhrvold

You are missing out.

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

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Hi HN I wanted to be able to search recipes from sources I knew I could trust. I also wanted a way to sort recipes by rating and include and exclude ingredients I already had. Going forward, I aim to add more sources, better ingredient filtering (hierarchical) and more dimensions (cuisine, meal time, etc.) Let me know what you think! One thing I struggled with was whether to includes mode with pictures or not. I can’…

Love the fast interface. It would be awesome if you could add functionality to filter by diet (vegetarian, vegan, paleo, etc.) For many people, diet determines which recipes are useful more often than any other factor.

I spent a couple of minutes trying to turn it into a usable vegetarian recipe filter by selecting every exclude that was meat related. An overflow auto on the excludes ingredients list would help avoid it spilling over into the results. Not sure why: Quick-Broiled Pork Chops With Peanuts and Gochujang

Almond and Dried Fruit Pilaf With Rotisserie Chicken

Freestyle Roasted Chicken Parm

etc. Still show up even with chicken, pork and 150+ other meat terms in the exclude list. But overall it's much improved.

Unfortunately can't find a way to bookmark the exclude list without a JS injection, and the source is obfuscated, so I'm probably not gonna bother figuring out how to do that.

... hm. I see that it does send out a promising looking API request that could be possibly turned into something bookmarkable. Looks like it has a handy array name too.

https://pastebin.com/nddrvGcy <= a start at meat filtering

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

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next level: mining the sites for the content and getting rid of the recipe's life story. to me, no-bs means ingredients and instructions. Maybe a few pictures of the target meal. thats it.

In addition to the other suggestions, a Firefox extension that does this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter

I wrote recipe-filter thanks to a comment here on HN years ago!

https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter

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

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I'll take this opportunity to mention one of my favorite apps: Paprika [0]. It's a recipe app that can import from just about every recipe site/blog/etc and if it can't auto-import it then you can use the really easy tools to grab all the pertinent information. Once imported you can edit/scale/rate/tag/categorize/etc the recipe. Furthermore it has meal planning tools and a grocery list built in. I love the grocery li…

My wife and I share the same account to have the same info available on all our devices. This means shopping lists too and thanks to the lightning fast sync our shopping has become distributed, effectively halving the time we spent at the store.

We tried several other apps and this one is worth every penny. Some of my favourite features: - Customize aisles - Auto stacking in shopping list - Clickable timers - Custom import from web - Well working scaling

Strongly recommending this app to anyone.

Sidenote: If available, use a portable scanner at the store. This reduces the amount of times you touch an item significantly, speeding up the experience.

Sidenote 2: To make auto stacking in the shopping list work the item name needs to be identical. We found that separating ingredient from processing works best. So 2 kg potatoes as ingredient and cutting in half in the directions instead of 2 kg of potateos cut in half as ingredient.

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

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next level: mining the sites for the content and getting rid of the recipe's life story. to me, no-bs means ingredients and instructions. Maybe a few pictures of the target meal. thats it.

I love the cookbook app for this, you can point it at a URL and it parses the important bits, ingredients, method, pictures etc. and saves the recipe. But it also saves a link to the original incase you want that story.

I primarily use it because it was the only app I could find with a good OCR mode for importing recipes from physical cook books.

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