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Agreed - I've always wished recipes would have two ingredients lists: one for shopping and one for prep. Like some recipes will call for half a cup of diced oni
by rustyminnow 5y ago
Agreed - I've always wished recipes would have two ingredients lists: one for shopping and one for prep. Like some recipes will call for half a cup of diced onions... So do I buy one onion or two? And recipes that spread ingredient prep throughout the steps make it a pain if you want to prep up front. Having a semantic list of ingredients means you could display them in whichever format is more helpful in the moment.
My other gripe is when recipes tell you to prep 4 tbsp of an ingredient but aren't clear that you only use 3 in an early step and are supposed to save the other 1 tbsp for an end step. Not sure how this could be programmatically solved though
- tenaciousDaniel 5y agoThe amounts could just be tied to the steps. So maybe step 2 is to add 3 tbsp of ingredientX, and step 5 is to add 1 tbsp of ingredientX. So programmatically, the ingredients list would be the cumulative amounts of all ingredients described in each step, which would be 4 tbsp ingredientX.
- rustyminnow 5y agoAha! Yes! Now that I've tried it, that seems to be exactly how CookLang does it. Though it would be nice if there was a sort of asterisk or note in the ingredients list that indicated the quantity is split between steps ... Or you know I could just learn to read the instructions carefully and not dump the whole bowl of garlic in at once. That'd help too.