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24 alternatives to How I Built This: Gary Erickson
Inspired by his mom's baking to create Clif Bar
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. How I Built This: Gary Erickson launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Stories from the future of food.
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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After 25 years of making other people's pancake recipes - always yearning for more tang, more fluff, and more predictability - I decided to derive the pancake recipe from the chemistry. You mark checkboxes for what you have on hand (ricotta, sour cream, kefir, buttermilk, yogurt, cottage cheese, lemon, cream of tartar, etc.) and it computes the best recipe based on targets for acid, fat, salt, sugar, and CO2. My particular favorite are the yeast-raised lemon ricotta kefir pancakes - the best I've ever had. The math is done in a small pure-ESM library: ingredient composition to component…
Jun 2026 · absurdlyoptimized.com · its alternatives →
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Kickstarting the craft beer movement in America
2016 · its alternatives →
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A conversation with Elise Bauer from Simply Recipes
2016 · delivery-edge.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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A chat with the guy behind The Food Lab
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Somabar▲71Robotic bartender for your home (pre-launch)
2014 · somabarkickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Adventures in beer from the Founder of Dogfish
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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I was addicted to game mechanics, so we made our own game.
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Jason and Vincent launched Bento about a year ago
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Grow your own food. No experience required.
2015 · mygreenspace.co · its alternatives →
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2024 · planmykitchen.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Making a kitchen centrifuge with culinary madman.
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · programmablerecipes.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · soupnextdoor.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · getmyroomie.appspot.com · its alternatives →
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