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Sort of minor note but when I cook, I want the directions to contain the quantities. Rather than “heat oil in pan” I want it to say “heat 1tbsp of oil in a pan

by dools 4y ago

Sort of minor note but when I cook, I want the directions to contain the quantities. Rather than “heat oil in pan” I want it to say “heat 1tbsp of oil in a pan”. When I shop I need the ingredients but when I’m actually doing the prep I want the directions and quantities at the same time because it’s faster to grab the ingredients and prep them as I go than it is to prep everything and then cook EDIT: no one does this by the way, they all make me scroll between the directions and the ingredients list.

pascalr555 4y ago
I totally agree. I have started working on a recipe website and for my personal recipes this is exactly what I do. You can see an example of what it looks like for now here: https://www.hedacuisine.com/r/776 https://www.hedacuisine.com/r/776.
KMnO4 4y ago
I suspect once general NLP models become cheap and widely accessible, we'll see a lot of niche tools that can transform data from one type into another. E.g. you could just paste the recipe in and the tool would already be prompted with "instructions" to output it in the desired format. Here's ChatGPT's take on the problem, which I think it did pretty well: https://i.ibb.co/dfwVH9G/image.png https://i.ibb.co/dfwVH9G/image.png Edit - bonus transformation: https://i.ibb.co/7CrKWX7/image.png https://i.ibb.co/7CrKWX7/image.png
russdill 4y ago
I mean, ya, that's what you generally want. But oil is a poor example. Are there people out there actually measuring how much oil they put in the pan? It's just a general guideline for if you need a lightly oiled pan, or a pan with a lot of oil. And really the amount of oil you need will vary a lot by the type of pan you are using. A lot of measurements are like this. Like salt, not only are personal tastes very different, but a half teaspoon of one kind of salt can be a lot more salt than a half teaspoon of another type. Anyway, A lot of people cook by generally knowing good ratios. It takes time though and you can't really get started without explicit measurements.

by dools 4y ago

pascalr555 4y ago

I totally agree. I have started working on a recipe website and for my personal recipes this is exactly what I do. You can see an example of what it looks like for now here: https://www.hedacuisine.com/r/776 https://www.hedacuisine.com/r/776.

KMnO4 4y ago

I suspect once general NLP models become cheap and widely accessible, we'll see a lot of niche tools that can transform data from one type into another. E.g. you could just paste the recipe in and the tool would already be prompted with "instructions" to output it in the desired format. Here's ChatGPT's take on the problem, which I think it did pretty well: https://i.ibb.co/dfwVH9G/image.png https://i.ibb.co/dfwVH9G/image.png Edit - bonus transformation: https://i.ibb.co/7CrKWX7/image.png https://i.ibb.co/7CrKWX7/image.png

russdill 4y ago

I mean, ya, that's what you generally want. But oil is a poor example. Are there people out there actually measuring how much oil they put in the pan? It's just a general guideline for if you need a lightly oiled pan, or a pan with a lot of oil. And really the amount of oil you need will vary a lot by the type of pan you are using. A lot of measurements are like this. Like salt, not only are personal tastes very different, but a half teaspoon of one kind of salt can be a lot more salt than a half teaspoon of another type. Anyway, A lot of people cook by generally knowing good ratios. It takes time though and you can't really get started without explicit measurements.