[Lutger]

Totally, we are on the same page.

First of all, you can't really model exactly what chefs do algorithmically. Or you can, maybe, but you shouldn't do that in a recipe. Unless you are building an autonomous robot-chef arm. I've seen these in China, they only cook very simple dishes.

What developers tend to forget, the recipe is a tool, and it helps chefs put together a dish. A mere combination of ingredients and maybe cooking techniques is usually sufficient for that. It is NOT an algorithm.

That's why I liked the 3 column layout linked somewhere else in this topic better than the cooking for engineers forget: it has less information which makes the things that matter stand out more.