[deltarholamda]

I get the desire to computerize it. Think of all the automation that can be done! Automatic shopping lists! Unit conversions! Scale up or down! Not to mention having a good think about how to organize things appeals to the data-driven mind.

But I find cooking to be resistant to this sort of thing, at least if you have a family. Meal planning is more of a negotiation than a tallying of numbers. You tend to cluster around a few, well-honed recipes that are repeated often. And when you're cooking, having a piece of paper or an index card attached to the vent hood or whatever with a magnet is far more user friendly than having to wake up a tablet or a phone.

(Not to mention passing recipes down through the generations. It's not the same to bequeath the recipes to your grandchildren by saying "give me a ssh key and I'll rsync these MySQL tables to your VPS".)