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[log@mastodon.sdf.org]

@maccruiskeen @StCecile @texttheater I admit I have little knowledge of human cookery. My dining plan is "spread hyphae into wood, digest".

[seismoallegra@mastodon.social]

@texttheater I saw this method about 15 years ago. Haven't seen it since.

[ellesaurus@toot.lgbt]

@texttheater This is giving recipe design by an engineer who doesn't bake

[matthewbadger@fosstodon.org]

@Sobex @texttheater agree entirely, this contrived example solves the problem for simple recipes, which aren’t really a problem anyway, and would become a mess for more complicated recipes.

[arthru@framapiaf.org]

@texttheater @tut_tuuut je pense déjà à toi

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@texttheater It's a dastardly plot by Big Recipe Book.

[matthewbadger@fosstodon.org]

@Sobex @texttheater I guess chronologically they _are_ DAGs, because we don’t require time machines when cooking, but yes loops are very common. “My sauce is too thick!” “Sorry, you have to move to column 4 now.”

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@texttheater I would just like to brag that 10-year-old me also "invented" this.

[mekhos@mastodon.social]

@texttheater does this recipe style have a name? This could save hundreds of kilometres of repeatedly scrolling up and down horrendous recipe sites.

[cyclessmiles@mastodon.social]

@texttheater I have a similar way of noting down my recipes.

[icooiey@mastodon.green]

@pinsk @texttheater That was my best guess too? But that’s a ton of sugar, an extra egg and scant flour. ???

[soviut@hachyderm.io]

@texttheater It's ridiculous that we still hold on to stupid measurements like cups and spoon sizes, though.

[bardmoss@autistics.life]

@texttheater
This is terrific, but where is your source about it having been developed "decades ago"?

[sabik@rants.au]

@texttheater
I think the top two rows aren't special, they're just steps without ingredients

[mercg@mindly.social]

@texttheater

Excuse me, but a recipe is 3,000 words of turgid nostalgia interspersed with pop-up ads and increasingly shrill demands for your email address, whereas this appears to be a clear and concise set of procedural instructions for making brownies.

[ei3jdb@mastodon.radio]

@raymaccarthy @texttheater It could be that American tourists (and, these days, refugees) buy them?

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@EI3JDB @texttheater
I don't think so.

Actually US tourists /seem/ rarer than years ago, but I've not seen figures.
European & African refugees wouldn't want Hershey. I believe there are US refugees, but they are not eligible for asylum (yet!), so can only settle if they have a sufficiently close ancestor.

[ei3jdb@mastodon.radio]

@raymaccarthy @texttheater Or if they have skills they can sell to an employer or education institution. I'm meeting a significant number of those recently.

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@texttheater i've not even seen this in project management, and it's clearly a perfect representation of Critical Path

[renwillis@mstdn.social]

@texttheater love it! But it forgot the part of how to put in the pan. The whole thing?