I'll start by saying this wont be for everyone, for some reason it seems people do like 'wordy' recipes......I get it.......but I am not one of those people.
Perhaps the first time running through a recipe it might make it a bit easier to follow? But subsequent goes there just seems to be too much extra fluff in most recipes for me to skim through while actually cooking.
=== Link to Early Draft Recipe Formatting Idea ===
I've had this recipe formatting idea in my head for a while now, and it seems strange to me that I've not come across it in any of my many books or on the countless web recipes I've used.
The two conclusions I come to is either;
- My brain is weird, and beyond this working for me, it's been tried by many/few but is not actually a good idea at all and is why it's just never caught on.
- I am a genius, I invented it and this is going to change the world.
I've done a few hand written recipe 'summarys' over the years that take a similar approach by trimming out the useless fluff, the and's/while's/then's/blahblah's. Having the ingredients down one edge so a quick fold turns it in to a little shopping list.
The idea of getting it on a properly formatted landscape page, is to allow a nice scaling column, conversion from the terrible volume method to weight, colour coding for say combinations, pan usage etc. A running staggered project management style quick look timing.
So I want some to to go through ALL the recipes and convert them in to this new improved format, using my very early preliminary draft as a base.
Also thanks to /u/J_Kenji_Lopez-Alt for the delicious Mapo Dofu recipe that I used as my test subject.
bon appetit
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