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tgb · 5 years ago
I've always wondered why recipes have the ingredient list and quantity separate from the instructions. I often have to scroll up and down (even on a mostly-decent recipe site like all recipes.com) first to see what gets added next and then to see how much of it to add. Why not tell me it's one teaspoon of salt in the same place as you tell me to add the salt? Only advantage to separating them is to make the shopping list, but no reason one can't duplicate the quantities.
odd_boy · 5 years ago
Cooking for Engineers.com puts a compact table in the recipes, which shows the list of ingredients and the order of preparation and combination. I think he calls it "Tabular Recipe Notation" or something like that.

It took me a moment to grok the format, but once I did I found it to be really helpful.

https://coolinfographics.com/blog/2010/4/26/cooking-for-engi...

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