Comparisons, not scores
We can say one recipe reads further along an axis than another. We cannot put a number on it, and we do not pretend to.
Compared by formula
Goulash
103 recipes, read so you don't have to.
Every recipe is a different answer to the same few questions. Tell us the bowl you are after and we will hand you the closest one anyone has published, plus what to change to suit you.
103recipes read
What kind of goulash do you want?
Change your bowl recipe
Each one is measured across all 103 recipes and then converted into this recipe's own amounts. Every edit costs something. The cost is on the card.
The complete design space
Every bowl recipe we measured
The five above are the ones we would point you to. This is every recipe we measured, if you would rather look yourself.
The same ontology, other dishes
Others in this family
These share the mechanisms and the vocabulary you have just read, each one measured the same way against its own set of recipes.
Beef StewSame family, its own design spaceBeef StroganoffSame family, its own design spaceBolognese SauceSame family, its own design spaceBraised Short RibsSame family, its own design spaceCarnitasSame family, its own design spaceChicken CurrySame family, its own design spaceChiliSame family, its own design spaceGround Beef TacosSame family, its own design spaceGumboSame family, its own design spacePot RoastSame family, its own design spacePulled PorkSame family, its own design spaceSloppy JoesSame family, its own design spaceWhite Chicken ChiliSame family, its own design space
Honesty
Where we would be guessing
The useful half of any measurement is knowing where it stops.
Direction, not magnitude
Where we can name something that measurably changes the result, we can say which way it pushes. We still cannot tell you where your own goulash will land, because that also depends on your kitchen and your equipment. here is what we can tell you when it goes wrong.
Pressure cooker rests on fewer recipes
There are far fewer published pressure cooker recipes to choose between, so that pick is provisional. We say so on the card rather than hiding it.
Some sites give ratings but no words
A few publishers load their reviews from somewhere we cannot read. Their star ratings count toward how trusted a recipe is; their comments could not tell us anything about what cooks changed.