For personal stuff, I'm almost always on Gemini. I've never cared for OAI, and Anthropic insists on sending me an email OTP to log in because they're too cheap to build out SMS support bsky.app/profile/joei...
Joe SlaterI used ChatGPT's guidance making a chili crunch oil last night. While I liked the result, I could have done without the BS pretence that it had actual culinary preferences — "I like to reconstitute the dried mushroom pieces before sautéing them…"
Exactly how my grandmother's index cards are 😂 Though they mostly got inherited by my aunts. The only one I got was for peanut blossoms (my favorite cookie) which I promptly typed up and added to my old law school blog bsky.app/profile/qotm...
General DisarrayFamily canon recipes must be documented and handed down on grease stained index cards far older than you are, written in faded and barely decipherable cursive, ideally in pencil. Sorry I don’t make the rules
One produces usable results, the other gives me links to dozens of pages that include the ingredient I remember but aren't the same dish bsky.app/profile/apac...
Apache TroutHow is this different than 2010 Google?
Lots of "measure with the cup of your hand," when my hand size is ~2x hers 😑 bsky.app/profile/stil...
Heidi HoltzAlso most likely they don't have actual measurements but mostly directions like "add butter" or "throw in a handful of..."
Sure but email OTP isn't secure either. If I must have an insecure option, give me the more convenient one! 😂 bsky.app/profile/nogh...
hypoallergenic bobcat alternativeeveryone's working to get rid of sms support because it's too pwnable
My success rate with YOLOing recipes has been very bad 😑 Rarely inedible, but also rarely good bsky.app/profile/grit...
GrittybeardMy cooking chops are...not good, but sometimes I read super old historical recipes for fun and try to imagine making them and just come up with ??? It's like 'make a broth, put unspecified amounts of certain ingredients in--or don't to taste, roast thing, the end'
True story: the reason all those stories get added in is because recipes cannot be copyrighted Someone somewhere told somebody once that adding in a story protects the whole work, and everyone ran with it (even though it's not true) bsky.app/profile/vagu...
Vague PariahYou don't have to scroll through a long fictional story about a trip to Greece with a now dead mom before getting to the recipe?
There's also @diane.dianeduane.com 's Food and Cooking of the Middle Kingdoms, where she creates recipes she refers to (or implies the existence of) in her (very pre-industrial universe) novel series. foodandcooking.middlekingdoms.com
Food and Cooking of the Middle KingdomsA recipe/cookbook project based in Diane Duane's award-winning Middle Kingdoms epic fantasy universefoodandcooking.middlekingdoms.com
