Recursive Recipes
Consumer and social
recipes and cooking
SHOW HN2018
250points
75comments
#123of 2,155 in 2018
Top 6%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
7 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 15 critical, out of 49 comments about the project. Thread score -0.20.
Execution: 1 for, 7 againstIdea: 4 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and absurd concept
From 3 comments
I love this: https://recursive.recipes/recipe/refried-beans?amount=10&timelimit=1&ingredientsToBuild=refried%20beans,onion,salt,butter,beans,dried%20beans,cow%20milk Totally…
steve_adams_86 on HNFun, and the absurdity puts things in perspective. Minor suggestions: * Allow currency change (e.g. EUR instead of USD) * Use + and - signs or green and red colors when hovering…
Fnoord on HNThis is very silly. I like it. I kinda compare this to an XKCD "what if" question about cooking. "What if i dont have eggs, but I have a chicken?" And so on...
dlhavema on HN
Good design and minimalist site
From 2 comments
I really enjoyed the design of the site. Thanks for sharing!
asimpletune on HNFun, and the absurdity puts things in perspective. Minor suggestions: * Allow currency change (e.g. EUR instead of USD) * Use + and - signs or green and red colors when hovering…
Fnoord on HN
Objections
Site breaks the back button
From 3 comments
Off the topic but quite annoying to me: moving the slide creates a bunch of URL histories that break the "back" button.
nebgnahz on HNCool idea, but super frustrating that your site breaks my back button. There's basically never a justification for this.
dbatten on HNThis is a cool concept but this is so meta - it looks like my browser history recursed on itself lol
mephitix on HN
Hovering does not work on touch screens
From 1 comment
Hovering doesn't work very well on touch screens :-)
kwhitefoot on HN
Chicken and egg cycles lead to odd recipes
From 2 comments
Except when I click "egg" in the recipe it gives me instructions on how to produces eggs from an egg-laying chicken, then how to produce an egg-laying chicken from a chick...…
titanomachy on HNFor making the vegetables, you should have seeds as an ingredient. Then to make seeds you need the vegetables, so you could have a cycle in your dependency graph. Also you should…
lifeformed on HN
Requires JavaScript
From 1 comment
Your site is broken, does not work without JS.
sdx23 on HN
Requests
Allow currency change
From 1 comment
Fun, and the absurdity puts things in perspective. Minor suggestions: * Allow currency change (e.g. EUR instead of USD) * Use + and - signs or green and red colors when hovering…
Fnoord on HN
Show price sources
From 2 comments
Fun, and the absurdity puts things in perspective. Minor suggestions: * Allow currency change (e.g. EUR instead of USD) * Use + and - signs or green and red colors when hovering…
Fnoord on HNGreat suggestions. There are actually sources for the price calculations but I wasn't sure yet how to display them, or if they were wanted. If you want them then someone else…
qrv3w on HN
Parallel time handling
From 2 comments
I would think the ingredients could be processed in parallel. For example, the Chocolate Chip Cookies recipes quotes a total of 9 years 29 weeks to make everything, but really…
joezydeco on HNThis works for "passive" time but not for active time, i.e. you can do other things while the vanilla beans are infusing, but you can't churn butter and also grind wheat. So the…
RussianCow on HN
Questions
Where the recipe data comes from
From 2 comments
Making a chicken from scratch -- hilarious. Where do you source those 'recipes' ?
brianlweiner on HNWhere did you generate the directions from?
zippzom on HN
Why buy cookies in the store
From 1 comment
Very nice! Suggestions: don't break the back-button; and make it somehow clearer that one can expand the recipes. As others I was also confused about "buy cookies in the store".
janwillemb on HN
Alternatives named
Joy of Cooking
From 1 comment
The classic book "Joy of Cooking" is kind of recursive like this. If you want to make a Reuben Sandwich, you turn to p. 272, and describes the bread, meat, cheese, and…
adrianmonk on HN
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter
From 1 comment
I made this for fun with React and Go, its open-source if you want to hack it yourself. [1] I was inspired by the book "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" by Jennifer Reese. I tried…
qrv3w on HN
The Cook's Companion
From 1 comment
An Australian equivalent is Stephanie Alexander's The Cook's Companion. Almost every ingredient has a "goes with" list that makes it a great starting point when you have…
prawn on HN