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24 alternatives to Recursive Recipes
Directions to make food from scratch
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Recursive Recipes launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2018 · recursive.recipes · its alternatives →
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Recursive!▲96A puzzle game about recursion, patterns, and programming.
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · timetomakefood.com · its alternatives →
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Recipe Generator▲156Turn your available ingredients into delicious meals
2024 · robotrecipes.co · its alternatives →
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Cooklang is a markup language for recipes.
2021 · cooklang.org · its alternatives →
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Make your own recipe, just start with the ingredients
2023 · what-the-chef.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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AI recipes based on ingredients
2022 · ai-recipes.softr.app · its alternatives →
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2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · craftinginterpreters.com · its alternatives →
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Recipes By AI▲158Generate recipes from a list of ingredients, powered by AI
2023 · letsfoodie.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · recipelabs.com · its alternatives →
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I've been playing with the idea of an LLM prompt that causes the model to generate and return a new prompt. https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm The idea I'm starting with is to implement recursion using English as the programming language and GPT as the runtime. It’s kind of like traditional recursion in code, but instead of having a function that calls itself with a different set of arguments, there is a prompt that returns itself with specific parts updated to reflect the new arguments. Here is a prompt for infinitely generating Fibonacci numbers: > You are a…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Syrnyk▲163Creates recipes from the groceries in your fridge
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Robot Recipes▲106Robot Recipes has thousands of real food recipes for humans, created by AI. Our recipe pages have ZERO annoying popups or unrelated ads. Search for your favorite recipe or generate one live.
2023 · robotrecipes.co · its alternatives →
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Only The Recipe▲112Cut out the clutter and enjoy only the recipe
2024 · recipescal.com · its alternatives →
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Recipes with ingredients you have at home, easy & zero waste
2023 · yougotcooking.com · its alternatives →
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Picknprep▲74Find recipes based on ingredients you have at home
2021 · picknprep.com · its alternatives →
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