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Why are recipes linear and textual? I'm surprised the recipe-book metaphor sticked with us for that long. I want a social cooking platform where the only way t

Why are recipes linear and textual? I'm surprised the recipe-book metaphor sticked with us for that long. I want a social cooking platform where the only way to represent a recipe is with a diagram. http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/156044/2247517/Pancake-recipe-crop.jpg http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/156044/2247517/Pancak... You're a cooking master? No need to explain you how to make a roux or how to blanch vegetables. Don't have butter? We'll substitute the step where you need butter by the steps to make it. Allergic to peanut? These nuts are a good alternative. Let's build a semantic recipe platform that's not linear and add a functional twist to ingredients (the part where you can substitute an ingredient by the function that returns one).

saganus 13y ago
Wow! I actually would love this. Kinda like an IDE for cooking? Uhmm... would definitely use.
jauco 13y ago
You should try http://www.caldrono.com/ http://www.caldrono.com/
steveplace 13y ago
You'd like "Cooking for Engineers"
mikeblum 13y ago
I'm on a side project right now that involves indexing recipes by ingredients and the like, making an api could make the jump to substitutions and other meta-like mods.
- xerophtye 13y ago
  Have you tried http://foodpair.com/ http://foodpair.com/ ?? it scrapes recipes from different sites and indexes them ingredient and lets you search recipes by just telling it what ingredients you have. You can also click each ingredient in a recipe to find out general substitutions for it (not recipe-specific).
msvan 13y ago
For some reason, I find this idea hilarious. It's a great rethinking of the recipe model. It's also a typical engineer idea; it's the kind of idea few people in my environment would come up with.
granttimmerman 13y ago
I'm working on an idea that does this but is more generic than just cooking. Look out for the public beta in September.
anupshinde 13y ago
I like the idea. Creating different recipes with different or optional ingredients. I had been thinking if there is such a tool to experiment and document different recipes. I might also want to branch out from an existing step, make changes and merge back to the original step. BUT at the end - when I actually cook something and don't want to experiment or change the ingredients - I would like to see the recipe in a linear format.

saganus 13y ago

Wow! I actually would love this. Kinda like an IDE for cooking? Uhmm... would definitely use.

jauco 13y ago

You should try http://www.caldrono.com/ http://www.caldrono.com/

steveplace 13y ago

You'd like "Cooking for Engineers"

mikeblum 13y ago

I'm on a side project right now that involves indexing recipes by ingredients and the like, making an api could make the jump to substitutions and other meta-like mods.

xerophtye 13y ago
Have you tried http://foodpair.com/ http://foodpair.com/ ?? it scrapes recipes from different sites and indexes them ingredient and lets you search recipes by just telling it what ingredients you have. You can also click each ingredient in a recipe to find out general substitutions for it (not recipe-specific).

msvan 13y ago

For some reason, I find this idea hilarious. It's a great rethinking of the recipe model. It's also a typical engineer idea; it's the kind of idea few people in my environment would come up with.

granttimmerman 13y ago

I'm working on an idea that does this but is more generic than just cooking. Look out for the public beta in September.

anupshinde 13y ago

I like the idea. Creating different recipes with different or optional ingredients. I had been thinking if there is such a tool to experiment and document different recipes. I might also want to branch out from an existing step, make changes and merge back to the original step. BUT at the end - when I actually cook something and don't want to experiment or change the ingredients - I would like to see the recipe in a linear format.