Recipe sub-goals and graphs

Abstract

Following recipes can be difficult for cooks. Many recipes use technical culinary language and condense their instructions into brief sentences, cooks may also get lost in long paragraphs as they jump around the recipe to find tasks to perform in parallel. Multimedia content has been shown to increase the confidence of cooks but few comparative evaluations have been reported. In this study we evaluated the effect of adding pictures of interim goal states to a plain text recipe and the effect of presenting recipe steps in a dependency graph representation. Initial results indicate that cooks value pictures of interim goals states to compare their ingredients against, and prefer a graph representation of a recipe because it supports the cook's non-linear path through recipe instructions.

Sustainable Culinary Skills: Fostering Vegetable-Centric Cooking Practices among Young Adults for Health and Environmental Benefits—A Qualitative Study

“…The format in which the recipe is presented, whether it be through text, video, or a combination of both, significantly impacts the learning experience during the cooking process [28][29][30][31][32]. Videos have been perceived to help over and above recipe cards through improved comprehension, real-time reassurance, and enjoyment of the cooking process, as well as the acquisition of new cooking skills [28].…”

“…However, research has rarely examined the use of recipe cards on cooking motivation and skills. Buykx et al (2013) found that recipe cards, with their concise format and easy-tofollow instructions, significantly improved cooking skills among novices [29]. Furthermore, Liu et al [37] provided three interventions: food samples, recipe cards, and promotional discounts on fruits and vegetables, and found that recipe cards were significantly associated with the frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption.…”