Comments on: Short Meal Service

Short Meal Service

These Premises Are Alarmed — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:37:18 -0800

Very short recipe site. Meals in 140 characters or less.

Submissions accepted, use the form or tweet to @E4T.

By: saxamo

saxamo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:50:18 -0800

I really love this! I feel like too much emphasis is placed on exactness and precise measurements in cooking, and these recipies are just enough spark of an idea to get my mind working.

I would donate to this if I could receive recipes via text with a keyword. I don't know how hard that is to set up but I'm surely RSSing it. I've submitted a few as well :)

By: librarina

librarina — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:26:06 -0800

Fun!

By: peacheater

peacheater — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:55:53 -0800

This is a great idea! Just enough detail to whet the appetite.

By: scose

scose — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:12 -0800

Great idea! I submitted one. Next step would be a service that texts you a new recipe every day.

By: like_neon

like_neon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:29:07 -0800

Good idea, but why 140? Possible future functionality could allow users to SMS their recipes in and SMS allows 160 characters.

By: These Premises Are Alarmed

These Premises Are Alarmed — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:20:51 -0800

SMS is 160? It's easy to change the length of that field. I guess I've been in Twitterverse too long.

Actual SMS integration is something I'm very interested in; trying to figure out the best way to do it. I think my first step is RSS feeds by category and tag (at which point it's easy to make a 'Recipe of the Day' category, etc), and then try to find something to convert that feed to SMS. What's the best way to do that?

Thanks for all the feedback and submissions!

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:34:02 -0800

Heh, this is cool. I was trying to fit a recipe into a Twitter a while ago and it didn't come out especially legible.

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:39:08 -0800

Any chance you could post all the recipes on the Twitter too?

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:01:52 -0800

Nice!

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:55:36 -0800

I know what I'm cooking tomorrow (especially since it gives me a chance to take the slow cooker out for another whirl)! Great site!