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by guhidalg 1088 days ago
> For harder conversions (volume to mass) keeping a list of ingredients and their densities (configurable of course) would be extremely useful.

Actually the USDA maintains this information in the FoodCentral database. I built a recipe management website using this information, for example check out this page: https://letscooktime.com/Recipes/Details?id=09989dc1-ee98-4f...

I think Cooklang is neat but non-developers are never going to learn it to write recipes. CookTime (my website) allows you to write structured recipes using a GUI, and soon you'll be able to use AI to just enter in random text and images and import them as recipes.