Geek cookery
Via Euan Semple I came across MacGourmet, which is billing itself as the iTunes of recipes. A neat idea, but it’s lacking the one thing I really need in a system like this - reverse-engineering of recipes. Otherwise known as “I’ve got two tins of kidney beans, half an onion, three cloves of garlic and a jar of something vaguely oily and threatening that the label has come off - what can I make with this?” But the idea of making the recipe display bigger so you can park your PowerBook out of batter range is a neat one.
Cooking For Engineers is a definite find, though - where else would you find a page dedicated to the smoking point of various fats? The recipes also use a diagramatic format rather than the traditional Delia-esque linear style - it doesn’t make the end results any more consistent, but it’s satisfyingly geeky. There’s also a fair dose of tool pr0n as well - because as any fule kno, you can never have too many gadgets for removing cloves of garlic from horses’ hooves…
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Actually it has what you’re looking for, called Quick Find. It allows you to say what ingredients you have and don’t have, and gives you find results from your collection based on that.