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0 pointsguhidalg1y ago0 comments

Take a look at my website, https://letscooktime.com/ and let me know what you think of the way I render recipes. There is an internal representation like this: 1. A recipe is composed of multiple components 1. A component is composed of ingredient requirements and steps 1. An ingredient requirement is a tuple of an ingredient and a quantity

I found good success using this model for recipes, specially complex baking recipes like breads with multiple repeat ingredients.

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infecto1y ago

For myself, the one thing missing the quantity of items inside of the recipe itself. I am often using my phone to read a recipe while cooking and its annoying to have to scroll back and forth to see how much of something I need to add. I have all the ingredients out and ready, just tell me in the steps how much of a seasoning I need to be adding.

guhidalgOP1y ago

Yes! Phone screens are too small to show both the instructions and the ingredients at the same time. To address that in CookTime, I highlight any instance of an ingredient found in the recipe instructions and show the quantity if you click/tap on it. I could change it to just show it unconditionally if that wasn't apparent when you looked at a recipe (like this one for example https://letscooktime.com/Recipes/Details?id=ed962bb3-64b7-42...)

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I found good success using this model for recipes, specially complex baking recipes like breads with multiple repeat ingredients.

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infecto1y ago

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