My main problem with cooking (apart from a near phobia of handling raw meat) is the timing and sequencing really stresses me out. I worry constantly about getting it wrong and over/under-cooking some component. It takes any pleasure out of cooking. I see other people enjoy it but for me unless it is something I know really well, I’d rather sit an exam.
I posted on Mastodon that recipes should have Gantt charts. I like Gantt charts, they explain well what needs to be done in what order, what the dependencies are and what can be parallelised. Unfortunately you tend to not find them in cook books.
My (sensible) car was in for a service this morning so I had about 2.5 hours to kill whilst drinking bad coffee. I used it to write some code that takes an arbitrary recipe text and use an LLM (Deepseek as it is cheap) to transform it into structured JSON. That then gets processed into a Markdown document which includes a Mermaid Gantt chart. I then dump that into Obsidian.
Let’s see if it actually works when I cook that meal tonight.