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Wholesale scraping of thousands of other peoples' recipes is ballsy, clever, but makes me a bit queasy. But, I'm not sure how useful it is in this packaging.…",{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"3263867","ryanwaggoner","You need units; I typed in lasagna and got suggestions for \"200 cheese\" and \"1 beef\". EDIT: just realized that I actually typed in \"lasanga\", hence the weird ingredients.",{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"3262859","noduerme","Yum, except you might have to tweak whatever function you're using to add or multiply ingredients... I typed in \"popcorn\" and it suggested using 9 1\u002F2 cups of popcorn =) I think…",{"value":123,"source":83,"evidence":124},"Quantities don't scale linearly across recipes",[125,128],{"id":126,"by":112,"text":127},"3263130","A pretty basic point to make here is that many recipes --- perhaps most --- don't scale linearly with ingredients. 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