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.
Lmao this is amazing
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.
Probably because hosting images like this wouldn't scale with github, so the format he wants is just text
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 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.
Kinda like this.
The AI assistant will guide you through the whole thing while you're going step by step.
ChatGPT works pretty well right now
Yummly, Epicurious. For me reading is more efficient.
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!
word! My ladychef showed me where (in some search results) you can see the number of ingredients and prep time - which can also be super helpful.
Yep. There's always too much fluff and bullshit. I'd rather just zap some sats and get what I need without having to dig.
ChatGPT does just that 😆
I’d like to be able to take a photo of a hand written recipe and just post it. I don’t want to retype the instructions. I also like bullet points, not paragraphs.
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 😊
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.
it's nice but we dont have this ;(
I use Mealie ( or Nextcloud Cookbook.) Churns out the recipes with no extras.
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.
