Food Pairing Ninja
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recipe search
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Food Pairing Ninja
Find the best recipe for any two foods, based on over 600k recipes
foodpairing.ninja#recipe search#ingredient pairing#food pairing#recipes by ingredient
How HN took it
13 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 14 critical, out of 52 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Idea: 7 for, 6 againstPerformance: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast and snappy static site
From 2 comments
Love it! It's fast and snappy. What tech did you use to build this? Is it open source? Are you planning to release an API? :)
wheeliez on HNSuper neat! I love this concept and I will totally use it. I particularly like its speed.
struct on HN
Clean, uncluttered interface
From 1 comment
I think I'm going to like using this more than google/allrecipes/etc... its clean and uncluttered. Dig it. Thanks
benmw333 on HN
Interesting idea for finding recipes from ingredients
From 2 comments
This is great. It's one of those totally obvious ideas that everyone else just missed. Stick with it and keep refining and improving. The line of thinking is fantastic.
benwills on HNI like this, are you planning on opening up an API? I could use this feature for http://imadefood.com that I launched a few weeks ago. Might be able to work something mutually…
overcast on HN
Objections
Missing many ingredients such as shrimp and lotus root
From 2 comments
Seems very western oriented? Tried various ingredients very common in other parts of the world but they aren't in the list. Heck even "shrimp" is not on the list. Maybe it should…
greggman on HNThis is very cool. But the number of ingredients needs to be increased (only 240 right now). Mentioned this to my wife, and she chose lotus root, which isn't in there. 600k…
arbuge on HN
Recipes are mostly from food.com, same as a direct search
From 1 comment
I like this, but: The recipes are from food.com (linking there once you have chosen your two ingredients). What's the difference from simply entering your two ingredients into…
elcapitan on HN
Two-ingredient pairings give random side dishes rather than main-ingredient recipes
From 1 comment
It was not quite what I expected, I fed it olive oil and potato to see what happens because there's a lot of things you can do with fried potato... instead I got all kinds of…
VLM on HN
Mixes up similar items such as banana and banana peppers, eggs and eggplant
From 2 comments
pretty cool but I noticed that it is getting bananas and banana peppers mixed up. http://www.foodpairing.ninja/banana/ground-beef/
stenius on HNA bug - when I search for eggs, it gives me eggplant recipes.
wakkadakka on HN
Requests
Exclude recipes containing certain ingredients for dietary restrictions
From 2 comments
Very cool. Some ideas I would love to see: 1) Exclude recipe that include particular ingredient(s). (dietary restrictions) 2) Tooltips in the column headings that explain the…
ethanpil on HN#1 would be huge for me. I'm vegetarian, and hate green peppers, which means some 80% (made up stat) of all vegetarian recipes are no go for me. My wife, in turn, is vegetarian…
ergothus on HN
Show nutrition data
From 1 comment
great site, allow me to +1 the parent's suggestions and i'll add one my self, perhaps cross reference these ingredients with nutrition data so i can do something like: i need to…
justifier on HN
Support more than two ingredients
From 2 comments
Very nice, but I guess it will support more than two ingredients in the future, right? Two is a bit limited.
Al-Khwarizmi on HNIs it possible to restrict the number of ingredients to a given maximum? This would be very useful if you choose two very general ingredients - like I just did with 'chicken…
ank_the_elder on HN
Add an API
From 2 comments
I like this, are you planning on opening up an API? I could use this feature for http://imadefood.com that I launched a few weeks ago. Might be able to work something mutually…
overcast on HNLove it! It's fast and snappy. What tech did you use to build this? Is it open source? Are you planning to release an API? :)
wheeliez on HN
Ingredient synonyms and aliases
From 2 comments
It would be good to have aliases for some foods. I was trying it on my own cooking, which involved "bok choi" and "onion". I didn't find "bok choi", but I did find "chinese…
ipsin on HNNeeds to include synonyms for ingredients: no eggplant/aubergine. Has some glaring omissions: doesn't find capsicum but does have red pepper. Needs definitions of the…
kwhitefoot on HN
Questions
Where the recipe data came from and whether it can be scraped or accessed
From 2 comments
Interesting. How did you get the recipes from food.com? Did you just scrape them or is there a data feed somewhere?
vblord on HNI'm interested in doing some food centric data science, mind sharing the source for those public domain recipes?
CuriouslyC on HN
Whether the algorithm or code will be open source
From 2 comments
This is so cool. I am actually planning to start working on something similar but for wet shaving market. Basically, I was trying to setup something where user can choose their…
acidity on HNThanks! I used Python to pull everything together. The site itself is statically generated (hence the speed) using homemade templating, and the pages are hosted on Github (the…
qrv3w on HN
Alternatives named
supercook.com
From 2 comments
like http://www.supercook.com/ ?
nibnib on HNI tried to write something like that as my first programming project, but then it got difficult, then I found http://www.supercook.com/ It got difficult because I was at the same…
fiatjaf on HN
IBM Chef Watson tupler
From 1 comment
This gives you fun results: https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/tupler
psuter on HN
The Flavor Bible
From 2 comments
This is a bit off topic, but have you ever seen this book? It's an amazing dictionary of food pairings:…
timsco on HNI can't remember if it's How to Cook Everything or Flavor Bible, but those make it incredibly easy to find a recipe given one core ingredient. For example, look up porkchops and…
lfowles on HN
cookingspace.com
From 1 comment
I do something similar on cookingspace.com - I use 100K public domain recipes to correlate food ingredients that frequently appear together in recipes. I also use the USDA…
mark_l_watson on HN
ingredientpairings.com
From 1 comment
Cool! I did something similar awhile back http://www.ingredientpairings.com/ http://www.cookthing.com/
kbrower on HN