Comment by frsandstone
3 years ago
Have you considered making a standalone tool to take input variables and generate custom instructions?
Your introduction suggests that you know people's input variables (type of flour, environment, other ingredients, etc) have a heavy influence on the end product. It might be easier to generate custom instructions rather than generate content for every possible combination.
Here’s a declarative sourdough ”recipe” generator: https://breadfriend.com
It would be great if this were possible. I believed it could be done initially, but then I realized it depends on too many parameters: Flour, water, temperature, sourdough starter microbes, starter microbial activity level, desired consistency, baking times and a few others. One guy once tried to put together a table with different starter levels: https://www.wraithnj.com/breadpics/rise_time_table/bread_mod.... In practice it doesn't work though.
I think this may have been posted on HN, but i forget -- https://makefastworkshop.com/hacks/?p=20200515