And there aren't many good free solutions out there that are user-friendly and accessible everywhere easily. Desktop apps don't cut it anymore especially now that you want to share something in your family's chat group.
People have also started gathering/modifying their own recipes from sites all over, so importing recipes is becoming crucial, especially with certain diets and a personal <insert diet> plan.
I know, I've built one myself when learning new stack. Way more fun than todo app.
If I remember correctly, Doug Engelbart's Demo[1] included a feature to organize a shopping list.
And the history of Elasticsearch[2] also began with recipes.
Is there a highly configurable app for sorting groceries? I’m currently using the pro version of copymethat [0], and it does a decent job of figuring out what aisles certain products belong to, and then let me sort those aisles however I want.
But what I can’t do, is telling it that I don’t have "eggs & dairy" but instead those are two sections in different places (and still properly sorting). I also can’t save separate orders for the aisles, one REWE has aisles sorted X Y Z, the other might be X Z Y. And I also want it to know about some local brands. "Deit" (German no sugar soda) gets currently sorted into "Other" by default, while I want it to be in "Beverages"
I even tried to make something like that myself, but besides my lack of knowledge of ML, I also had issues getting the proper data in a clean format, I ended up having to create a 100 item dataset which then (either in general or because I didn’t know what I was doing) was not enough to get good results.
The recipe importer is great, I was using paprika but there's always the issue of sharing the recipe with your friends. Here, I can share the recipe where they don't even have to login. The UI is responsive on the phone and the collapsing steps feature is just great. I'm not using the shopping list and meal planner on a daily basis.
Kudos for knowing what Keshik is too!
Also thanks for sharing - there are a bunch of cool recipes there.
And pronounced not quite the same either as the usual Southern African word for "an ear of maize", or the products made therefrom, e.g. "meilie meal" (1) and "mieliepap" : corn porridge / grits (2).
Thanks again!
I have been using it for the last months with family and friends and it works great as well.
Could you take a quick look at mealie and make a comparison between the two?
Demo recipe screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/ZUeTQ8C.png
Example: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/268/Buffalo-Chicke...
It would be cool to generate them from some sort of dependency list.
Then, when I do meal planning (usually in the weekend, depends on when we have a slot for grocery delivery) we (as a family) look through the table of contents of our family recipe book/binder and we usually eat (per week) 2 to 3 recipes from there, 1 or 2 from the 'we should try these' sources (printed recipes we come across, our newspaper has recipes daily, pinterest boards, youtube videos, ...) and 1 or 2 nights we have leftovers or takeout.
This planning ties in with an offline-first grocery shopping/meal planning system that revolves around a cork board with laundry pegs to hold that weeks planning, which my children made/decorated when they were little.
I enjoyed it a lot, but eventually my life got too busy to cook that often and I was growing slightly tired of the recipes, plus they got acquired so I don't know what their future holds. But maybe you'd find them valuable?
The epiphany was that 99% of the recipes I was storing were crap and I was wasting my time with a dedicated system. The wiki has about a dozen recipes now, with a new one getting added once a month, tops. It's really not so much work that I need a dedicated app just for recipes. Plus, wikis have really good change tracking, so I'm able to make little modifications without worrying about losing access to the original.
It's a really good point for user experience scenarios that are close to mine. I like to import recipes from places but most of the time what i need would be adding personal notes or making touches to those recipes without losing the original. Not sure how important these are to most of the people tho
Personally, I've found switching to using something like Notion or Evernote as more of a cooking 'notebook' than a recipe collection -- where you are not forced into traditional recipe structure for each page -- has worked really well for keeping track of stuff like this.
One feature I immediately tried to find, though (and then searched for a github issue for it and couldn't initially see) was to be able to filter meals by ingredients.
Not necessarily the 'fuzzy' search, but (similar to the include/exclude categories) have a drop-down list of ingredients for ingredient auto-completion and then select to add to a list of items.
And then the same for adding some ingredients that are excluded (e.g. want to do something with flour, but have no eggs)
It's accessible everywhere already, works good on mobile, so you don't have to haul laptops/tablets when cooking/shopping.
If i need extra notes on some ingredient, i just use some adjacent cell.
But above all - formulas. A lot of recipes lend themselves to calculations. Things like crepes (something superior to pancake) can be narrowed down to exact number of crepes you want. Same goes for ny cheesecake - dial the pan size and ingredients and baking time, temp are modified. Breads are basically fully formulaic so that is also covered.
