Monday, October 8, 2007

Cooking sites...

So, in an effort to possibly make OpenSource cooking in conjunction to ROVLabs I have been looking for sites that fall somewhat in the range of what i want to make...

Here is a list:

http://allrecipes.com/
Has Reviews
Voting system
Pantry system (saves what you have in your kitchen)
Shopping List creator (Though not the generator I had in mind)
Community forum
Comment system for custom recipes

http://www.recipeinsider.com/
Has Voting System

http://www.recipezaar.com/
Has search feature for recipes
Organized by ingredients, meal, categories...
Featured "Chefs" section for contributing members
Ability to upload pictures of meals. (Example, Banana Bread had 7 pictures from 7 different people so you can see how results vary)

Two features in all of these that I find different from what I had in mind:
Automatic Shopping list generator: Made to refill the normal stuff you buy or based on recipes you have marked for meals. This has the potential to get sponsorship from grocery stores so that store's advertisements can be listed and their sale prices for items.

Recipe creator/community builder: I want to create an interactive application to put in recipes that others can edit. The author can set these recipes to "complete" or "make suggestions" and in a wiki style of community energy individuals can alter the recipes to make something that tastes a little better with a comment.

I'm tempted to work on those components as it stands, but I'll continue to look for other sites.

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