Why has the Internet never produced a recipe site that provides a flowchart instead of list of ingredients? It's such a more intuitive way to do recipes, and I have to mark up all of mine.
@ZachWeinersmith Do your recipes often have forks in them? (The decision kind, not the dining kind.) Or loops? (The procedural kind, not the spaghetti kind.)
@dan @ZachWeinersmith Recipes do in fact often have "while you're waiting for X, start with Y" branches.
@adriano @ZachWeinersmith It feels to me that putting a loop into a recipe to explain a "while you're waiting, do this" is a bit like writing a program with a polling loop. Cooking for me feels more like an event-driven paradigm: "when this, do that" with the "while you're waiting" tasks on a lower priority thread.
@dan @ZachWeinersmith It's not a loop, it's a kind of fork. Loops are indeed rare (or nonexistent) in the recipes I can think of.
Yeah, I agree with your "event driven" description. There are also ifs ("if the dough is X, add more W", for example).
@adriano @dan @ZachWeinersmith
Or descriptions of ways to affect some important property (e.g. "to increase stickiness add eggs, to decrease it add water").
