An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet

alexandrehtrb

The engineer's name is Michael Chu, he made a website with cooking recipes structured as tables. https://www.cookingforengineers.com/

bigfishrunning

one of the tweet screenshots censors the word "kosher", which I completely don't understand. Why are screenshots online so agressively censored?

inasio

For another super condensed shorthand system for recipes, see Thermomix cookbooks (requires a Thermomix though)

teiferer

Um, friend of mine in her handwritten "my favorite recipes" book has used that layout for decades, using curly braces to group things. I'm doing that too since seeing her book a long time ago. I thought it's standard to do it that way.

piinbinary

Some of my pet peeves about regular cookbooks are: - Steps that actually include many different steps. - Steps that don't repeat the quantities, making me scroll back and forth between the step and the quantity list. The diagrams in this post very cleanly solve both.

mathgeek

Have always loved cookingforengineers. We should really just be linking to it directly instead of whatever this “having to scroll through a life story f other people’s tweets” spam is.

juancn

This is not new at all: https://www.cookingforengineers.com/ Look at the site design! It went viral on Digg! That's how old this is.

TheRealPomax

Sorry, is there supposed to be an actual article somewhere hiding behind this giant collection of embedded whatever-the-hell-X-calls-posts quotes? Because there does not appear to be one. "Someone said X and then someone else said Y and then even more folks said Z" was slop long before AI existed.

righthand

> even though the system had existed the whole time. But it didn't. Isn't that the point of someone inventing it? If the system existed the whole time then it would most likely be much more realized. Also people don't use this system because 99% of people don't right things down in tables. I know not many people hand write things anymore but even typing up ingredient lists on a machine I don't begin by creating a table. Also this article format of numbered tweet responses as images is just terrible. What am I reading Buzzfeed? I had to stop reading. Also isn't "viral" 100k or more? Not 10's of thousands? This is a clickbait article. But it brings up a bigger question: why claim that something is viral with 100,000+ views/likes/shares/responses/whatever when we know damn well Twitter is full of bots?

nico

Is there something like an abacus but for cooking? A simple device to keep track of the different tasks for a dish that can be used in the kitchen while cooking? I’m guessing there are apps

bityard

TFA is mostly just a bunch of twitter screenshots. From people on social media who forgot that the rest of the web still exists. (Original site: https://www.cookingforengineers.com ) Also, clickbait headline: There is no dissent presented anywhere on the page that this recipe format is pretty great. It did not divide the internet even a little.

josefritzishere

This is genius. Where can I buy that cookbook? Why is it flagged?

perching_aix

Looks a surprising amount like a structogram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%93Shneiderman_diag...

JohnFen

That format is great for relatively simple recipes, but there are a number of things I make regularly that could not fit into that format without making everything clear as mud. So, I think its utility is a bit context-dependent.

SirFatty

Why would something like this get flagged ffs? Not enough AI or crypto?