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Yea, this format sucks.

and inconsistently labeled units

And if I’m using my phone every other line has 50 ads

Sometimea it is important like when a recipe wants American jiff or skippy peanut butter etc, because it contains icing sugar besides just peanuts; which changes sugar ratios for cookies.

My guess is that it has to do with the variations from brand to brand and clarifying that this particular recipe used that brand to get the expected taste. Assuming they didn't enshitify their version with cheaper ingredients.

Though I hate recipes that say something like "one can" or "one package". Even without shrinkflation, different brands sometimes use different sizes (if no brand is specified).

Though if it's a published recipe, I agree with the other comment saying that money probably exchanged hands, and that deal might even be the only reason that recipe is featured at all, because it was probably a "publish recipes that sell more of our shit" rather than "fit our shit into your recipes where possible". Guessing the whole thing might have started with "inventory of our cocoa powder is piling up, sales team gets a bonus if they can get it sold (and we'll lay off the people producing it for a bit)".

pity us.

Perhaps the recipe calls for vomit flavored chocolate that other brands cant match.

Typically that just means there was some kind of endorsement deal with the company that made the recipes. I doubt this is an exclusively American phenomenon.

Yeah, what if you want to do something like "seperate the yolks from the whites, beat the whites until they're fluffy and then add sugar and mix with the rest." And then a later step doing something with the yolks. I don't see how you would do that here without it turning into an unreadable mess.

This chart works well as both the requirements and process reference.

The fine details can be asterisk line items afterward.

Then the family story goes at the bottom, with perforations so you can tear it off and toss it out

I believe www.cookingforengineers.com , but it’s either down or doesn’t like my VPN, so I can’t verify.

Exactly what I was hoping existed already. I think I'm going to try and convert some recipes to this format and see how it goes. I like that it has the ingredients in a simple list, makes shopping so much easier.

It clearly shows the sequential and parallel threads of execution:

• up/down: parallel.
• left to right: sequential

It clearly shows the sequence of produced intermediate results, split and merging points:

• a row that splits into two rows is one step producing more than one result. Like spliting yolk and whites.
• many rows becoming one: merging node. Like baking many ingredients.

If the last 4 ingredients need mixing together first, then you simply have a mix column with just those ingredient rows under the mix column from above to show that those get mixed independently in parallel. This recipe implies that is unnecessary for this food though.

https://mossblaser.github.io/recipe_grid/tutorial.html#splitting-recipe-components-up

someone figured out a way