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Information designers have been hacking at recipe designs for ever and it took an engineer to come up with this design 20+ years ago.

14/8/26, 12:19 pm11 reposts43 likes

Voilà: Francis Gagnon

@chezvoila.com

14 Aug

The source is cookingforengineers.com by Michael Chu. The blog operated from 2004 to 2018 or so.

cookingforengineers.comCooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically MindedDetailed instructions on food and cooking for those who like to ask not just How? but also Why?

Voilà: Francis Gagnon

@chezvoila.com

14 Aug

It resurfaced on X recently thanks for @juanbuis.bsky.social who went viral with it. Ironically, it flopped on Bluesky. I came across it through an X screenshot reposted on Instagram.

Voilà: Francis Gagnon

@chezvoila.com

14 Aug

Fast Company covered it.

fastcompany.comEngineers redesigned the recipe to make it easier to followInstead of scrolling through cooking gibberish, glance at a tidy table.

Voilà: Francis Gagnon

@chezvoila.com

14 Aug

Juan Buis then made a website and an extension that converts any recipe to this format (CW: AI).

recipetables.comRecipeTables — any recipe, one glancePaste a recipe (or a URL) and get it back as a nested prep table. Ingredients as rows, steps as merged columns.