Visual Gadgets: Visual Recipes

[archerships]

via visualgadgets.blogspot.com

"Most people are familiar with the structure of a recipe in a recipe book: a list of ingredients is given, maybe with a cooking time/temperature, followed by a set of 'assembly' instructions for the recipe.

But how about this novel summary table for a recipe from the Cooking for Engineers website? (Cooking for Engineers?! Hear the rationale behind the site from its creator, Michael Chu: Geek Cooking, Debunking Hollywood Science and Green Roofs.)"

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Comments

[pixiecup.livejournal.com]

i love stuff like this.

this is fun, too: BoxClock, an iPhone app that displays a clock in a "physics-based playground."

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Neat! I'll have to try it out the next time I find someone with an iPhone.

[denorae.livejournal.com]

Cooking for Engineers? More like, cooking for people whose "read, process, and remember written instructions" brain sector has exactly zero overlap with "locate, measure, and add ingredient to the correct mixture" sector. Especially when the instructions have things like "Mix the flour, half of the sugar, and two of the eggs into one bowl, and then in a different bowl add the butter, the rest of the sugar, and the remaining eggs." Not sure why this is so difficult for me, but I find myself re-reading these kinds of sentences at least once per ingredient per bowl.

I <3 this idea! Very easy to do a lookup of which step you are at and what to do next.

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Glad you like it!

[seidhr.livejournal.com]

I think I'm too traditional for this. But the doesn't-cook engineer in the house looked at it and said, "Interesting," while smiling. So I think that means he thought it was a good idea.