[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":631},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-48408854":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":46,"post_text":49,"what":50,"said":74,"maker_in_thread":182,"shape":194,"grid":199,"attempts":595,"same_week":596,"maker_shows":37,"maker_hidden":624,"reader_version":625,"card":626},"48408854","Absurdly Optimized Pancakes","I Derived a Pancake","title","Show HN: I Derived a Pancake","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.absurdlyoptimized.com\u002Frecipes\u002Fpancakes\u002F","absurdlyoptimized.com","bkazez",1780641762,2026,340,137,107,4366,3,"legend","dev_tools","recipe generator","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"pancake recipe","parametric recipe","buttermilk substitute","pancake calculator","debated",0.06,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":18,"critical":33},24,27,23,77,{"design":36,"idea":39,"docs":41,"execution":43},{"positive":37,"critical":38},1,2,{"positive":40,"critical":38},12,{"positive":38,"critical":42},9,{"positive":44,"critical":45},0,7,[18,18,47,48,48,37,47,37,37,37,37,44,48,48,18,44,38,37,18,18,18,37,37,44,44,48,48,48,48,48,18,48,37,18,18,48,48,48,18,37],4,5,null,{"problem":51,"audience":58,"pricing":49,"motivation":67,"time_to_build":49,"stack":71,"openness":72,"stage":73,"team_size":72},{"value":52,"source":53,"evidence":54},"Finding a pancake recipe tuned to the ingredients you have and your preferred tang, fluffiness and tenderness","maker",[55],{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},"48437695","After 25 years of making other people's pancake recipes - always yearning for more tang, more fluff, and more predictability - I decided to derive the pancake recipe from the…",{"value":59,"source":60,"evidence":61},"Home cooks who want to make pancakes from ingredients on hand","inferred",[62,63],{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"48441619","rendaw","I like the table layout, with ingredients in a column, and rows being steps. It feels like a \"best of both worlds\" solution. I'd kind of like to have a list of \"baseline…",{"value":68,"source":53,"evidence":69},"After 25 years of other people's pancake recipes, the maker wanted more tang, fluff and predictability, so derived one from chemistry",[70],{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":75,"objections":103,"requests":134,"questions":161,"alternatives":167},[76,92],{"value":77,"source":78,"evidence":79},"Parametric approach is fun and novel","commenter",[80,84,88],{"id":81,"by":82,"text":83},"48439135","sastra","Yes! The world needs more Parametric-driven recipes. This is fantastic. Love it.",{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"48439617","mrmincent","This is awesome, chefsteps should hire you to do their parametric recipes.",{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"48439824","chrysoprace","Awesome work. I'm really interested in the parametric-driven recipe card. I wanted to do something like this for bread recipes where you can tweak the hydration \u002F salt levels to…",{"value":93,"source":78,"evidence":94},"Detailed, thorough research-style writing",[95,99],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"48441772","gettingoverit","Actually, the whole website is fire. There are articles on the same level on how to select T-shirts and pants. This is the second time I see a reviewer online doing the thing…",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"48442697","my_throwaway23","Perhaps you could add a classic Swedish take on pancakes\u002Fcrepes - whisk a moderate numbers of eggs with milk (4 eggs for every litre of milk is a good starting point, but dealers…",[104,119],{"value":105,"source":78,"evidence":106},"Articles appear LLM-generated with unreliable citations",[107,111,115],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"48441064","hedgehog","I want to like this but it reads like Claude output, how much scrutiny did this get for accuracy?",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"48441703","jamessb","> it reads like Claude output Yep. From the site's about page: > This site is produced with substantial help from large language models: they assist with the literature search,…",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"48442565","raphman","Addendum: > \"Cast iron and carbon steel have nearly identical thermal conductivity (~52 W\u002Fm·K), which surprises most people.\" is unsourced. And the precise \"~52\" is quite…",{"value":120,"source":78,"evidence":121},"Photos show overcooked or burnt pancakes",[122,126,130],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"48444010","alhadrad","The picture provided doesn't inspire much confidence in their ability to make pancakes, especially after \"25\" years. They are burnt, sad-looking pancakes.",{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"48444637","chrisra","The first picture is of overcooked pancakes. Hard to trust the rest :)",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"48439521","einpoklum","That's serious commitment for sure, but - I don't know, the image makes it seems like he low-key burned his pancakes 8-\\",[135,150],{"value":136,"source":78,"evidence":137},"Dairy-free and gluten-free options",[138,142,146],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"48440189","jtbayly","Wow. I really like this, but I want it to support non-dairy options.",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"48441624","aaronbrethorst","Neat. Now do it for gluten free flour[1] :) this is the go-to recipe in my home. You can sub in GF flour (Bob's 1:1) and they're consistently excellent.…",{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"48440476","pants2","This is incredible. I wish it had a dairy free option!",{"value":151,"source":78,"evidence":152},"Crispness and fluffiness sliders",[153,157],{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"48439806","sohex","Well I have a new favorite website. I don’t know the last time that I read something that was so thoroughly and multidimensionally my shit. Not actually measuring crispness when…",{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"48440876","stonogo","I agree, this seems like a lot of really excellent work from someone with a completely different pancake baseline than I have. The word 'crispy', in my world, has no business…",[162],{"value":163,"source":78,"evidence":164},"How accurate are the sources and was the content checked?",[165,166],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},[168,175],{"value":169,"source":78,"evidence":170},"Kenji's light and fluffy pancakes recipe",[171],{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},"48439730","elchief","here's kenji's recipe (footnote 64 in the article, in case you missed it lol): https:\u002F\u002Fwww.seriouseats.com\u002Flight-and-fluffy-pancakes-recipe",{"value":176,"source":78,"evidence":177},"Pancakebot",[178],{"id":179,"by":180,"text":181},"48440782","paulorlando","Nice... Would be interesting to connect this to pancakebot.com",{"comments":183,"answered":48,"key":184},21,[185,188,191],{"id":186,"text":187},"48441817","Haha, just for you - check out the new checkbox at the bottom of the form: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.absurdlyoptimized.com\u002Frecipes\u002Fpancakes\u002F?have=&eggs=4&tang=5&fast=1 I'll leave the rounding…",{"id":189,"text":190},"48442713","Love it, thanks! I used to have a \"fluffiness\" slider that I could bring back to power this. I haven't researched Swedish pancakes yet but are they leavened at all?",{"id":192,"text":193},"48442950","Ah, I know about these big tall pancakes! I've had something like that in the Netherlands and grew up eating something like it too. 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