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In article . com>, wrote:
>Good question... Let's see, nearly all recipe software, including
>BigOven, lets you resize ingredients from any recipe easily down to 1
>or 2 servings. (Use this feature with some caution, however, since
>this just mathematically reduces ingredient amounts, NOT the
>instructions text -- for instance, reducing the ingredient amounts
>usually -should- reduce cooking time, etc.)
LOL. Out of curiosity I tried "downsizing" on a recipe site the other
evening. [It was when I was looking for solutions to my "dry pulses
due to expire" problem, but I don't recall which site it was now.]
The site had a recipe to "Serve 6 to 8" IIRC and offered the feature
of recalculating for other quantities, so I thought I would see what
it would do if I entered "1". As expected, it simply divided down the
quantity ingredients; but for unitary things (e.g. two medium onions)
it rounded down to zero where "appropriate". ;-)
Of course, that was probably quite a practical answer! (Given the
implication that the recipe simply couldn't be reduced that much and
still expect it to be what it purported to be all about.) But it
would be interesting to know if that was what the author intended, or
whether it just happened that way because of a rather simplistic
algorithm. I don't recall any adjustments to cooking time. :-)
>BigOven has many recipes tagged by users with "Quick", "Easy", etc.
>"Single dish" is a good suggestion for a group tag to add and we'll add
>this as a keyword as well as allow you to search by Serving Size = 1 or
>2, etc. in the future. Good thought.
Cheers, Phred.
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