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Need script to calculate recipe.

by Evita
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Hey.

What would be involved in having a recipe type script, (the script would have to calculate a number of ingredients based on weight and type of other ingredients) that
would also be printable?

Hope I'm making sense person would enter weight of a few ingredients and the calculator would calculate all the other ingredients.

Would this be something easy for a programmer?

And where would be the best and least expensive place to find such a person?

Thanks!

Evita
#calculate #recipe #script
  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Riley
    Originally Posted by Evita View Post


    Hope I'm making sense person would enter weight of a few ingredients and the calculator would calculate all the other ingredients.
    I know you can have calculators that increase or decrease the amount for different serving sizes. I believe Epicurious, or one of those, has it. But your question sounds like you're looking for something else, so I think you had best explain in more detail.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      An issue with this might be that if a recipe calls for a pound of beef, and you only have 1/3 pound of beef - so you want to alter the other ingredients. You may wind up needing some specialized measuring devices as you might wind up with weird things like 6.55 ounces of milk or 1.72 thirds of a lemon.


      Not looking to bust your dream - but perhaps expand it by offering unusual measuring devices []
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  • Profile picture of the author Evita
    OK, here is more detail.
    Yup, similar to what you have on those recipe sites.

    I'm setting up a calculator to make raw cat food.
    Different types of meat and organs would call for different amounts of calcium which is a very important dietary requirement for cats. The calculator would need to calculate the exact amount of calcium depending on the amounts and types of meat as well as offer the amounts of the different types of calcium sources. But that should be easy, just a mathematical formula.

    Add to that the supplements that would need to be added dependent on the total amount of meat/organs.

    Then the entire thing needs to be output in a nice looking format which the visitor could print out.

    And, Jill, here's just one of the many reason I like the metric system...lol...
    but your point is valid, and I would need to include ounces and other oddities ;-) Most of the other ingredients are vitamins and minerals so would probably be easier since they will be using grams or milligrams.


    OK, so this would be a big deal to do? Big bucks?? I'm thinking I basically need an excel spreadsheet that functions onsite and then just needs to be transformed to a nice looking printable document?

    Best,
    Evita
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  • Profile picture of the author jaijav29
    Hey, that's a good idea you got there. Also maybe or can it be used for real food? what I mean is food that we can eat not cat food...
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  • Profile picture of the author IMChick
    Evita,

    This is odd that you're asking this question because I've been looking around for this. I could use one of these calculators, too, for another 'weighty' matter...

    I'm going to PM you and maybe we can put our heads together to get a custom calculator going.
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