Domestic news
Three Mushrooms and Half a Chicken Given New Purpose
The contents of one household’s refrigerator were described on Tuesday as “not obviously a meal”.
What RecipeJam does about it
Search your own recipes by what you actually have. RecipeJam reads the ingredient lines rather than matching words, so it knows a recipe calling for eggplant answers a search for aubergine.
RecipeJam, in use
A recording of this, in the real application
Entering a few ingredients and finding a recipe that used a different name for one of them.
Filmed in RecipeJam itself, not an animation. Coming shortly.
It knows the other names
Aubergine and eggplant. Courgette and zucchini. Spring onion, scallion and green onion. Coriander and cilantro. Search in the words you use and find the recipe written in somebody else’s.
Every term has to match
Search for chicken and mushrooms and you get the recipes using both, not the long list of everything with chicken in it.
Your recipes, not the internet’s
This searches what you have kept. The answer is something you already chose to save, which is a better shortlist than anything a stranger could suggest.
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Beneath an autobiography, two advertisements and a video that had begun playing on its own.