Oddbean new post about login | logout What should a recipe app of the future look like? Personally I hate all the SEO garbage people use as filler in recipes. I go straight to ingredients list. My wife doesn’t even bother with traditional recipe format, she just watches those fast paced video recipes with captions for instructions.
Your wife is onto something. I hate short video format but it's awesome for recipes, cuts out all the bullshit.
Yeah. At first I was a bit thrown off by that format but now I see value in it. So much of recipe / learning format is bullshit and presentation for the sake of presentation
https://based.cooking/
Cool but no pics?
Its written with Hugo, where users submit a pull request with a markdown file of the recipe and then it gets uploaded to the site. Images should render if thats the case, unless the dev decided not to.
You should be able to just select 5 or 10 ingredients and a style that you want and spit you out a recipe you should try with a video link along with it
I like this. So select what you have and see what you can make and or maybe also show which ingredients might be missing
Exactly. Tailored to you instead of searching around
I absolutely agree about the fluff of traditional cooking blogs. One thing I think would be kind of cool would be the ability to put ingredients that you have in your fridge or at home and then get recipe ideas that are similar or an exact match to what you have.
https://myfridgefood.com/ Kinda like this.
I've been using a great recipe app called Paprika for a few years now. The best feature is: you give it a link to a recipe (blog, site, wherever) and it parses out the ingredients and the directions into two plain text pages. Super clean and to the point. It probably has other cool features too but that's really the killer one for me
This is the best and most used feature for me too!
I would love to see a simple landing page that asks "what do you want to make today?" and some drop downs & text boxes for ingredients, catagories, methods... results could be video & text in separate tabs. A random "I need ideas" button would be fun too. No fluff, or at least place that space at the bottom 😊
Short video format for a brief summary but there should be long videos for step by step instructions
Nothing worse than having to scroll through their life story. I know what I'm here for, you know what I'm here for, please just leave it out!
I like the format that HelloFresh uses that shows a picture for each step of the recipe: https://www.hellofresh.com/recipes/chicken-katsu-65a842864bb81dc143a6dcd9 It would be nice to have videos next to more complex steps to show exactly how to do it. A meal planner that automatically picks a week of meals based on previous meal ratings is something that would be useful too. You would receive the list of groceries to buy from the app and have a full week of meals covered.
You don’t like scrolling past an article, a bunch of pop ups, and ads before seeing a recipe online?
Have you seen nostr.cooking?
I think there's a place for the "filler" sometimes. In some instances it has been useful when the recipe writer puts in notes about substitutions, alternate methods that worked/didn't work, etc. I think filtering by dietary requirements is gonna be pretty important. gluten free, vegan, diabetic, etc. I think suggesting sides or accompaniments would be cool. Like a chocolate cake recipe might also have links to frostings and fillings. a steak recipe might have links to mashed potatoes, etc. automatic volumetric to weight conversions. I also like the idea of chaining recipes. I just made that up but the idea is that you can start with something like say blanched broccoli and it would link you to what you could do with that blanched broccoli like broccoli salad or adding it into a cream of broccoli soup. then you take the soup and make it into a casserole, etc.