Machine Translated Recipes?

1 pointsguest__user6y ago1 comments

Hello

As an American living overseas, I am constantly having to translate cooking recipes ( temperature, weight, volumes) although there are calculators for this type of thing (the weight in grams of one cup of flour is different for example than one cup of sugar) I haven't found anything that will just do it in bulk, or for a whole recipe. I realize that it's kind of small potatoes (!) compared to other applications but I was wondering

1) does something like this exist?

2) how easy would it be to make ?

Thanks

1 comments

Piskvorrr6y ago

1) not really, machine translation still sucks in general, because 2) there's no context awareness beyond grammar. This is realistically fixable for formal units (°F, grams), unlikely for informal units (as you note, "of course a cup is X units of Y, everyone knows that!"), and completely broken by ingredients (cooking from US and French and Polish flour, by the same recipe, yields a completely different result - highly unexpected!)

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