Recipe Search
Consumer and social
recipe search
SHOW HN2020
349points
126comments
#108of 3,028 in 2020
Top 4%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
22 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 23 critical, out of 67 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Execution: 3 for, 18 againstIdea: 6 for, 1 againstDesign: 4 for, 3 againstPerformance: 4 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Very fast search and page rendering.
From 3 comments
This rules! SO FAST Search 'vegan' and Colorful Guac displays Ingredients 2 large ripe avocados 1 lime juice 2 garlic cloves, Minced 13 cup choppled scallion 13 cup choped red…
royaltjames on HNIt is amazing how fast the pages render. Amazing work, even if it took 6 instead of 1 hour!!
cpard on HNWow it's super fast. Someone please make this over web archive data, for web search.
motyar on HN
Good Algolia-style result quality.
From 2 comments
I've been looking for an Algolia-style alternative (in terms of result quality/fuzziness) and this is great. Definitely going to use this on a project soon.
rglover on HNMy team used typesense for a recent project. 16 million records combined with https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/building-search-ui/what-is-instantsearch/react/. Really fast and…
ysoft on HN
Objections
Ingredient measurements are wrong in some recipes from the source data.
From 3 comments
@Jabo: Great site. Some errors though, for example the "4 Ingredient Sauce for Roasted Lamb" says to use 12 cups of brown sugar. The source site has 1/2 cup (0.5), so I'm…
haser_au on HNVery nice. One issue I noticed: I looked up Chana Masala and the first recipe (Vegan Chana Masala) calls for “12 tsp salt” but the source calls for “1/2 tsp salt” :)
lowdanie on HNyour import seems to have omitted slashes from 1/2 measurements, e.g. 6 chicken breasts, cut into 2 inch cubes 2 eggs 2 cups breadcrumbs 12 cup olive oil 12 cup white wine 12…
woleium on HN
No unit conversion between metric and cups.
From 2 comments
As an SI unit user who's been looking up more recipes during lockdown, the whole cups, spoons, etc, units of measurements are really annoying. Some recipe sites have on the fly…
netsharc on HNI'd be more interested if it could also automatically convert between voodoo and actual metric measurements.
kaetemi on HN
Recipe directions shown may infringe copyright.
From 2 comments
Great idea and works quite well. However, it's generally frowned upon to show the actual directions for a recipe. Which is why you see most recipe aggregators only show…
nojito on HNI'd make the title of the recipe the link to the summary, rather than the "Read Cooking Directions" text, which is sort of confusingly worded. Do you "cook" salad? Also, as…
russellbeattie on HN
Results sorted by text relevance with no quality signal.
From 2 comments
Very nice! I will definitely be using. Quick question, are the recipes sorted by anything?
murrkeys on HNCongrats! This is a great start. It's impressive how fast it is, even if this mostly says something about the state of the web today. 2M recipes is a huge database, and without…
thamer on HN
Requests
Filter by ingredient exclusion and AND/OR logic.
From 2 comments
Have you considered the ability to filter out recipes that don't contain a particular ingredient? Obvious use cases are food allergies and dislikes in general. My specific use…
reificator on HNThis is great! I thought that I could filter on ingredients with an intersection of those ingredients and instead got the union. I would love if this could toggle between those…
blorenz on HN
Open recipes in a new tab or link to specific entries.
From 3 comments
This looks great! A small bug: Filtering by ingredient "Sugar" gives results like "Sugar free" and "no-sugar-added". And a small UX request: Have the recipe not just be a JS…
Semaphor on HNInability to open selected recipes in a new tab (e.g., to read later) is really annoying
vikin9 on HNNice! Is there a way to get a link to a specific entry rather than just the full list of query results?
rsfern on HN
Show source website domain.
From 1 comment
Love the concept but please could you show the domain name of the source websites? I use that as a filter for quality and it's time-consuming hovering over the source icon to see…
tagawa on HN
Support exact-word search without fuzzy matches.
From 1 comment
How do I tell it I really want to search for just "harissa" and not "Harrison", "Harriet", "Harris", "harrissee", etc.? I tried putting it in quotes, but no such luck.
drfuchs on HN
Questions
Is the recipe dataset open and available?
From 1 comment
chrome wouldn't load it without a valid ssl cert. I'm very interested in seeing this though. Direct message me if you want a bit of free help with the infra. in the meantime, is…
nelsonenzo on HN
Why sorting is by relevance only?
From 1 comment
Very nice! I will definitely be using. Quick question, are the recipes sorted by anything?
murrkeys on HN
Alternatives named
Punchfork
From 1 comment
I’d love if this had a recommendation engine like punchfork[1] [had[2]] has. That said the search is nicer than Yummly so I’ll have to give it a try.…
mc32 on HN
Yummly
From 1 comment
I’d love if this had a recommendation engine like punchfork[1] [had[2]] has. That said the search is nicer than Yummly so I’ll have to give it a try.…
mc32 on HN