The Efficient Recipe Design That Cuts Out the Blog Backstory
A viral social media post highlights the website CookingForEngineers.com, which presents recipes in a streamlined, grid-based format. Unlike many modern cooking blogs that include lengthy personal anecdotes and backstories, this design focuses on technical clarity. The featured example for Banana Nut Bread uses a logical flow chart that maps ingredients to specific preparation steps like 'mash,' 'melt,' 'fold,' and 'whisk,' followed by baking and cooling instructions. This minimalist approach provides a direct, data-driven alternative to traditional recipe writing, prioritizing efficiency and ease of use for the cook.
To those who say it actually is not clear; Just follow the steps both top down and left to right. Starting from the top: Butter and flour a loaf pan. Preheat oven. Don't move to or past mash until smooth until all of the ones left of it are done, then you hit fold but don't do it
I asked why we can't walk into any supermarket and buy one human nutrition for a day...
Oh wow that's much better than some boomer telling us a story about their family.
no critical info about your family and you grandma and your childhood home? sacrilegious.
Thank you, OP. I visited the site... Thank you so very very much. It's beautifull.
its beautiful, no room for three pages of blog backstory about 3 generations of repression as inspiration to result in "and then I got really high on friday night and these were the ingredients I had left in kitchen"
i have just looked at this website and i just... i feel so understood.
"what are your intentions with my daughter?"
"cooking foreigners??? ah. I misread"
Yeah, but have you thought that this doesn't allow recipe writers to practice their creative writing skills on websites where they have to tell stories about how a dish was invented, who invented it and what cultural quirks surround it, to justify putting a billion ads next to th