chuckl
under the hood I have it more like a graph with levels. The traversal is from all of the "leaves" to a single node rather than from the head node towards the leaves as in a traditional tree. The upside-down tree is more for a visual for the reader.
At the moment I don't have a recipe that outputs 2 end states but entirely possible since it's more of a graph under the hood.
I wonder if they got it from Cooking for Engineers
Maybe someday I'll add a feature to grab a shopping list. Could organise it into sections of the store and do a quick traveling salesman problem :D
also due to the conciseness of the grid, it's also not great if you're making it for the first time
Practically I just have it listed twice if it's important like butter.
https://cookbook.cstebbins.com/recipe/the-best-swedish-meatb...
otherwise if it's a staple like salt I just say something like "stir in and season with additional salt and pepper to taste"
like in https://cookbook.cstebbins.com/recipe/sloppy-sophisto-joes
Where you start with a list of all the nodes (ingredients)
Have a n:1 relationship with the next series of nodes (steps)
until you finish at a single node (the dish you're trying to make)
So instead of having a separate chunk of "here's my ingredients" and "let me repeat the ingredients and one by one instruction until the end" I figure you can display the upside-down tree to convey more information with less words.
An example being https://cookbook.cstebbins.com/recipe/bul-koki
With the underlying tree structure looking like https://assets.cstebbins.com/cookbook/images/bulkokiTree.png
