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

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Post by freetinker »

leobg wrote: post #126

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...

A trip down memory lane. Thanks for the pleasant reminder that it's still around, and pretty much unchanged. A hidden gem.

Some of the comments on the site from ~2005 are so quaint ("Great site. Am linking to you!", etc.). Makes me feel like I'm in a quaint old-world town: proud of its anachronisms that morph into charm and wisdom with the passage of time.

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

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Post by yesenadam »

sumtechguy wrote: post #205
yesenadam wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off-topic but I might get an answer here: I used to have a great recipe (I) called "15 minute cookies". The total time from first thinking about making them to eating - including preparation and cooking - was 15 minutes. Which was almost always irresistible, so I often made them. Somehow I lost the recipe. Does anyone know what that recipe might be? Thank you!

To me it sounds like a sugar cookie? There usually is not much in them other than sugar, butter, flour, vanilla, and eggs? There are a lot of '15 min' cookies out there. But sugar cookies are usually the simplest. I was always partial to the ones on the bag of chocolate chips. Buy stuff on back of bag (you are at the store already and cant miss it), mix, cook done. yummy!

Thank you. I'm vegan so that narrows it down, also not into chocolate. It was a very simple recipe. I think maybe was sugar, oil, flour, oats, maybe cinnamon. Thanks for the comment, will definitely try to get back into making them!

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Post by n2j3 »

mfashby wrote: post #120
VRay wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man, what a disappointing thread.. the BBC site is great except it’s all weird British ingredients and units (how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale?) The OP’s site is a really nice search engine, but it dumps you into the recipes’ unreadable SEO trash pit websites instead of parsing out the data PlainOldRecipe isn’t working to strip recipes down for me

haha, if somehow you could combine the search of OPs site, plus the garbage stripping convenience of plainoldrecipe, plug in some really good unit conversion system, & save my preferences while you're at it, you might have the ultimate recipe tool.

This. The amount of ads/js on most cooking/recipe sites is terrible.

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

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Post by leobg »

caspar wrote: post #201
leobg wrote: post #126

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...

You may be interested in this analysis on various recipe formats, along with the proposed "RxOL" notation for explicitly expressing recipes as such a tree based structure[0]. Personally I find RxOL hard to read & edit though, so I have been thinking about whether it would be doable able to infer such tree structures from CookLang's more readable recipe format[1][2]. Ingredients and times are already marked, so surely…

You’re right. It’s like a Lisp for cooking:

Just like with a Lisp, the benefit is that you always see at first glance what is the noun and what is the verb. With other recipes, you have to read through an entire “step“ instruction in order to parse that information.

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

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Post by gardnr »

Just some feedback: The links appear to be some sort of magic that doesn't work with cmd-click (open in the tab) This means I have to click and the browser navigates to the recipe webpage. When I click the back button my filters are reset and the order of everything is different. Please consider opening recipes in new tabs.

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Post by musicale »

VRay wrote: post #61
mfashby wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://plainoldrecipe.com/ does this!

Man, what a disappointing thread.. the BBC site is great except it’s all weird British ingredients and units (how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale?) The OP’s site is a really nice search engine, but it dumps you into the recipes’ unreadable SEO trash pit websites instead of parsing out the data PlainOldRecipe isn’t working to strip recipes down for me

> it dumps you into the recipes’ unreadable SEO trash pit websites instead of parsing out the data

This is the BS that I as hoping would be removed, but it was left intact unfortunately.

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

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Post by justinlloyd »

sflicht wrote: post #185
justinlloyd wrote: post #177

I love your website but unfortunately you link to seriouseats recipes, which to me is the equivalent of quora for food. When searching online for recipes, I always "-seriouseats" or have the entire website in Firefox Block SERPs addon.

wow, pretty surprised by this. I often explicitly search for the seriouseats recipe -- they're usually much better than allrecipes, food.com, etc. Also Kenji's book (the Food Lab) is awesome.

Ah, yeah, that's the problem right there. If seriouseats is the quora of recipe websites then allrecipes is the "Yahoo! Answers" to that. Food.com just needs a shitty MIDI tune autoplaying and a couple of animated underconstruction signs and we could relaunch myspace all over again.

These days I have all three of those recipe websites, and others, blocked in my SERPs block add-on in the browser.

I guess I unintentionally turned in to a recipe snob over the years. But I simply don't trust a lot of online recipes.

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

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Post by milomildus »

gardnr wrote: post #215

Just some feedback: The links appear to be some sort of magic that doesn't work with cmd-click (open in the tab) This means I have to click and the browser navigates to the recipe webpage. When I click the back button my filters are reset and the order of everything is different. Please consider opening recipes in new tabs.

Done, thanks for the feedback!
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