Great idea! But please read https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
Thank you.
Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
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Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#72Earlier 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
As someone who lived in the US for 8 years... How much is a cup?
Let me know then next time you pay for a kilogram of petrol at the pump. Some things make more sense to measure by volume, others by weight. This is disjoint from imperial vs metric.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#73Earlier 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
> 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.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#74My normal challenge with recipes is that I have no idea how authoritative the reviews are. On some sites, there are a lot of recipes that make no sense whatsoever, and yet have 5 stars.
I'm confused by what you mean by authoritative. Cooking isn't really like math, there's no canonical pineapple pizza recipe unless you go too vague like: dough, sauce, ham, pineapple, delicious. Or do you mean real reviews where the stars mean something?
For recipes, stars often let me down as they seem to be more related to how the recipe worked and could be followed, not how good it tasted. And the flavors seem to be pretty bland.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who lived in the US for 8 years... How much is a cup?
Let me know then next time you pay for a kilogram of petrol at the pump. Some things make more sense to measure by volume, others by weight. This is disjoint from imperial vs metric.
Precise recipes, i.e. anything related to baking, where ambient temperatures matter - everything is measured in grams, even water. I'm so used to this by now that measuring anything by volume sounds disappointing, let alone dark age units like cups and spoons. I get it, not everyone is serious about cooking enough to own ingredient scales but are these users still the majority of recipe consumers?
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#76Which bs there's when searching for recepies?
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#77Earlier 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
Volume measurement for flour is inconsistent and annoying.
Metric and by weight is by far the best format for recipes and best way to measure ingredients.
In professional kitchens it's all we ever used (I used to work in some top restaurants, talking world's 50 best back in the day).
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who lived in the US for 8 years... How much is a cup?
Let me know then next time you pay for a kilogram of petrol at the pump. Some things make more sense to measure by volume, others by weight. This is disjoint from imperial vs metric.
Fuel would make more sense to measure by mass, because the volume and energy density changes with temperature. It just happens to be easier to measure by volume. I believe many locales mandate pumps which correct for temperature and dispense slightly more volume on a hot day.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let me know then next time you pay for a kilogram of petrol at the pump. Some things make more sense to measure by volume, others by weight. This is disjoint from imperial vs metric.
Precise recipes, i.e. anything related to baking, where ambient temperatures matter - everything is measured in grams, even water. I'm so used to this by now that measuring anything by volume sounds disappointing, let alone dark age units like cups and spoons. I get it, not everyone is serious about cooking enough to own ingredient scales but are these users still the majority of recipe consumers?
Yes. I cook based on recipes a lot and anecdotally so do a lot of people I know and we still use cups, table/teaspoons and so forth.
Re: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
#80Earlier 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
As someone who lived in the US for 8 years... How much is a cup?
> As someone who lived in the US for 8 years... How much is a cup?
While its not quite right (its a little smaller), at the level of doing a recipe, 250ml [0] (but for flour in baking, you should use weight, not volume, anyway.)
[0] 4 cups = 2 pints = 1qt ≈ 1l