Seems like your search uses OR, not AND. So adding more ingredients broadens the search rather than narrowing it. That seems kind of useless... adding just a handful of ingredients would end up matching basically all recipes.

Very simple compared to other apps I've seen do this, which is much appreciated.

Worked well on desktop but unusable on my iPhone5 in either safari or chrome. There seems to be a polling script or something that's causing a page refresh every half second or something? Safari continuously shows the loading bar preventing you from selecting the ingredients bar and Chrome just flashes the page continuously.

Great work though!

OP here. Thanks for all the feedback so far!

I just disabled the navigation via pushState as it seems to be buggy on iOS devices. I'll put some more time on this and test it properly.

Regarding the questions with the OR/AND search. Yes, it's an OR by default but you can either force or remove ingredients by clicking on the star icon. In case you are just searching by OR, recipes with a higher "match rate" should appear on top. I clearly need to rework this part as it doesn't seem to be intuitive.

Again, thanks for the feedback!

It is doing OR search which doesn't make much sense to me.

try to search lime and cilantro http://skipthepizza.com/recipes/cilantro+lime

recipes either have lime or cilantro and there is no guacamole

Where did you get the recipes from? I used http://openrecip.es as the database for http://openrecipesearch.com, but the results were so bad I had to just turn it into a disgusting content farm, since I couldn't reasonably expect anyone to use it.

I've looked for recipes with Beef, Caviar, Coffee, Eggs, Ham, jalapeno, Lemon Juice, Sugar, Tomato Sauce,Vodka and it still finds me a dozen of recipes...

I understand that you can take ingredients replacements in account (as jalapeno, still keeping paprika recipes) but here it doesn't make sense anymore.

It would be nice if it was tolerant of misspelling (e.g. "mozarella") and also handled commas as a tokenizer. (I typed in "tomato, mozarella, basil" before realizing I had to hit enter after each ingredient.)

Also, adding ingredients to the list (hitting enter) is dog slow on my machine.

I'm actually working on something similar, but we're spending quite a lot of time on the algorithm - it's quite hard to get it perfect.

One note is that your search isn't working for me, it seems to just be rapidly refreshing the page. Latest build of Chrome on Mac OS X Mavericks.

How is this different than Gojee? http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/21/recipe-finding-app-gojee-qu...

I actually use these sites (mostly Yummly, but I always try new ones), and I have a comment that applies to all of them. It has to do with the variability of the underlying data.

Do I have "parmesan" or "parmesan cheese" or "parmegiano reggiano" or "parmegiano-reggiano"? Also, there is an implied hierarchy to some ingredients. For example, if I have fresh lemons, then I have "lemon juice" and "lemon zest" and "lemon peel".

I don't really know how this site or any others like it handle those types of things. Maybe its fixed behind the scenes, but a visual indicator would be great.

In my university (Manchester, UK) there's a whole year course in the first year when you are assigned to a group of people and you have to make a website, anything you can come up with.

Every year, someone makes a web site for searching recipes by ingredients :)

To be more on topic, I like the idea but I think implementation (i.e. manual work required) is a bit too... demanding, involved? We are in the world of 1 click. I would like an app which would allow easy input (scan bar codes?) combined with machine learning to discover new meals (taste, effort required). Google Now for food?

I stupidly spent a while trying to type all the substrings leading up to "Avacado" hoping that autocomplete would kick in. Perhaps I've got used to Google correcting my terrible spelling.

Infinite refresh in Safari 7.0.3 OS X

The first thing I searched for was lemon, but I noticed that it differentiated between lemon, lemon juice, lemon zest, etc. If I have a lemon, I have all of the above. I'm sure there is a lot of work to know that lemon zest is derived from a lemon, but that would make this stand out against other similar ideas.

There's no pictures next to the recipes? I pick recipes based on whether it looks appetizing. Just having a name there isn't helpful.

This site does a better job with pictures (but has other problems)

http://www.supercook.com

This looks great! I like the slick and simple interface. Nice to see another Laravel site too!

I have been working on something recently that I think would complement your site really well, please feel free to shoot me a mail: me AT codemonkey.io to discuss.

I think ANDing should be on by default, since that's likely the most common use case - especially since that's what the left side of the UI implies. Ingredients are usually combined, else it's not really a recipe.

You can also use google: https://www.google.com/webhp?tbs=rcp:1

Search, then use 'Search Tools' to narrow by ingredient

This is a clever idea, makes it simple to get ideas for things you already have in your cupboard. Although its in a simple form currently, you could do so much with this concept.

Feedback:

- The lack of an option to search only vegetarian recipes makes this pretty much useless for me.

- Adding ingredients has a fairly large delay. I suspect some optimizations could be done there.

Nice, but please don't break the "back" button.

Firefox 29.0.1: Can't type into the text field to put in an ingredient. EDIT: Typing is there, can't see the text. (White on white?)

Could you add an option for recipes which include only these ingredients/expands the search if it doesn't find very many?

Were you thinking about a more visual approach? Because other food related startups tend to show off the beauty of the culinary

A version of this which focused on drink ingredients could be a (perhaps more easily manageable) implementation of this idea.

Brilliant. I love the idea and I have always wondered why such a thing doesn't exist already.

Now give me an app :)

No garlic scapes in the database? Seems like it's a bit limited.