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Re:Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine by VRay on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @12:51PM (#29164891)
Haha, yeah. I wanted to turn my flour, milk, and baking powder into pancakes, but it’s surprisingly nightmarish to get the two floating point numbers I need in order to get the ratios right

“Why not simply…”

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Re:Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine by johnday on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:12PM (#29165160)
I assure you that the optimal way to turn flour, milk and baking powder [no eggs? -Ed.] into pancakes is to keep trying different ratios until it works properly.

There's a LOT of variance in flour, milk and baking powder that make attempts at measurement based recipes a fool's errand.

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Re:Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine by Moru on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @06:40PM (#29169064)
No baking powder would be a start. The rest is just 3-6-3. That is 3 eggs, 6 dl milk, 3 dl flour and a pint of salt and some melted butter or oil.

The road to my hometown is called 363 so easy to remember. Just have to figure out which of them was the milk now again.

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