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Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by angio »

neaden wrote: post #8

So as someone who cooks a lot, and gets frustrated by long blog like posts that lots of recipes have this day, this website is probably even less useful for me. The tagging system isn't being used correctly, Ham Sandwich is tagged with Banana for some reason. Speaking of Ham sandwich some of the recipes are just way too simple, this just tells me how to assemble a sandwich which I don't think anyone really needs. Tho…

The carborana recipe also includes garlic which I'm not saying is wrong, but it's not standard. Also carbonara has neither butter nor oil.

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by kampsun »

This reminds me that there's also recipes in Wikibooks. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Table_of_Contents https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Recipes

I also usually get good results with recipes from Serious Eats[1], I also find that the in depth articles go into reasons behind the recipes, really help with knowing the "why", not only the "how".

1. https://www.seriouseats.com/

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by samdafi »

aimor wrote: post #62

In general I've given up on recipe aggregate sites. I have to be half-familiar with the dish just to fix all the things wrong with the recipes I find. In my opinion, divorcing the recipe from the curator is a huge mistake and no amount of user reviews overcomes this. What I really want to see are the recipes that some specific person actually makes in their daily life. Not icons who publish more recipes under their n…

Shameless plug but I tried to do that at https://www.sammakesfood.com. I made videos for the recipes too, but you do not have to watch those. It was a hobby project (not monetized) so no garbage. If somebody did this with maybe 30-75 mainstays and added search, is that kinda what you’re looking for? I stopped because I wasn’t sure if it would help anybody. My family enjoyed the videos during the pandemic as an alternate way to see me though, so, still worth it :D

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by domdev »

challengly wrote: post #56
cratermoon wrote: post #19

Isn't this just https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26419717 reskinned?

Probably literally using their source code, but not linking back to it? https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/based.cooking

https://github.com/locua/based.cooking

Their github with their fork of that repo.

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by flatiron »

jka wrote: post #18
flatiron wrote: post #11

I’ve always wanted to make a GitHub for recipes. You can fork recipes. Submit pull requests. Public and private repositories. Versioning and commit history. Share with friends, Etc.

You may be in luck: - https://www.cinc.kitchen/ - https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/based.cooking/ (which the submitted site may be derived from?)

That looks like a recipe site inside GitHub. What I wanted to make is a standalone website with git like branching and such. Everyone has their own little twist on recipes. I think it would be fun! I just need the time!

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by dogma1138 »

neaden wrote: post #8

So as someone who cooks a lot, and gets frustrated by long blog like posts that lots of recipes have this day, this website is probably even less useful for me. The tagging system isn't being used correctly, Ham Sandwich is tagged with Banana for some reason. Speaking of Ham sandwich some of the recipes are just way too simple, this just tells me how to assemble a sandwich which I don't think anyone really needs. Tho…

Buy a few good cooking books. Far better and more useful than hunting on the internet.

And most importantly start your own recipe book.

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by jka »

flatiron wrote: post #75
jka wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may be in luck: - https://www.cinc.kitchen/ - https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/based.cooking/ (which the submitted site may be derived from?)

That looks like a recipe site inside GitHub. What I wanted to make is a standalone website with git like branching and such. Everyone has their own little twist on recipes. I think it would be fun! I just need the time!

Try the first link :)

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by mongol »

I think the ideal recipe website starts from well known dishes where each recipe is associated as a variant of a famous dish. There is no true Swedish meatballs recipe, so the heading "Swedish meatballs" should not have a recipe, it should have several. And then some kind of rating system should bubble the best ones to top.

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by thrower123 »

People love to slag on recipe sites, and most of them are terrible, but the platonic ideal of the recipe site already exists. It's AllRecipes, provided you have UBlock Origin enabled. Even if you don't, the printer version of their recipes is perfect, and exactly what I would want.

Example: -> https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/242040/egg-salad-with-chop...

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