SuperCook Turns Your Kitchen Contents Into Yummy Recipes

Love this site! Hubby and I eat out way too often after a forlorn look in the fridge. Sure, we have food, but unless we've organized it with a meal plan, it often just seems like random stuff and we don't know what to do with it.

This is a fantastic resource! I'm always telling people they need to cook at home and "I don't have anything" is everyone's favorite excuse not to. Appreciate the tip :)

I am holding out for the version with an integrated bar code scanner. Scan everything in the kitchen and voila!

Michael Tedesco

Anyone know if we can stream in HD with this? It's so frustrating that XBox and set-top boxes can stream HD but PC clients can't.

ahawks

Seems like the usability has been pretty well thought out. I definitely fit the description of someone who'd use this.

Chris Murphy

Here's an idea: Learn to cook by principals and good practices and you'll be able to whip up a beautiful healthy gourmet dish from nothing more than marshmellows, salt, vinegar and tumeric! [latter part tounge-in-cheek, still mean the former]

Neat looking site though, should be intereting!

freshjulius

@winshape: Nope, no need for redundant hardware, just get grocery stores to export your receipt to your shoppers card, make it downloadable. I would love to see this type of database fully integrated into my shopping cart at the store. I think the problem is convincing stores that will make them more money in the long run.

Ben Lowry

Dang. I thought about this kind of thing a while ago. Looks good.

@bmc: If MacGyver can use those items to escape a potentially deadly scenario... I'm sure Dos Equis and fruit loops are good for something. :)

The Thinker

@dangerp: erm, change that question mark to an exclamation point. And give me an edit button!!!?

dangerp

This site looks awesome? I like the "do you have" cloud beneath, it really helps to quickly add ingredients that I forgot I had.

The funny part is, for almost the entire first page of entrees, for every entry it says, "You will also need: bacon"

I agree.

dangerp

I myself have a few more items in my fridgerator. This includes cheese whiz, crackers, and pie crust(dont know why or how that got in there) but on a side note. good concept for those that do put real food in their fridge.@bmc:

Looks useful, at least to me.

neoqueenx

Allrecipes.com has an ingredient search as well. I like Allrecipes because that site allows users to rate recipes, so I can usually get a good idea of how well my family will like it.

Kandy477

I love sites like this! I used to use one to "bartend" for parties in college. That site is terrible now, but nice to have as a boost for the imagination!

Now if there were some way of hooking up a barcode scanner and automatically scan stuff into this database, I'll be set.

winshape

Something tells me that my refrigerator full of condiments, assortment of miniature boxes of cereal and case of Dos Equis will not get me many results.

All I am going to say is that is what crock pot cooking is for...LOL...as long as I am the only one eating it, and I can stomach it....LOL!!

NosrednaOmiK

This is so useful! Lately I have been looking for a site like that, and although there were a few (from previous lifehacker posts) non of them quite worked for me. This one is really good! I especially like the 'update-as-you-type' feature! Thanks LH.

OsbornPsyche

@karlawithak: Dunno, I can see something Thai coming out of that list. Not sure about the chestnut paste though.

junkmail

@ahawks:

Dang, AutoPager firefox extension confused me and I commented on the wrong article ;)

ahawks

@winshape: Better yet, just have the grocery store interface with this site and print off your daily/weekly menu on the back of the receipt...

RandomSkratch

@winshape: I was thinking the same thing. Integrating a barcode reader is exactly what a site like this needs.
Most cheap barcode readers can be set to generate a text file listing all the numbers from the items scanned. Copy and paste convenience.
It just needs integration on their side to hook into the existing UPC databases that are freely available.

I am using up stuff because we're moving...and I've been looking for something to cook that involves a jar of jalepenos, chestnut paste, candied ginger and coconut milk.

I don't mind adding bacon.

karlawithak

@freshjulius: Right on. Took me about 6 months to get all the basics down, but now i can use anything in my kitchen and create a delicious meal in 20-30 mins. No need to use recipes or measuring spoons.

For fun I like to glance at photos of meals in cookbooks and recreate them just from memory. :)

this is great! i have been trying to find a site that keeps the contents of my kitchen in order. I just wish they integrated expiration dates for the food you do have. manually entering the food is not a big deal, i am glad not forget about food in the back of my pantry.

Frankie Galanti

@Michael Tedesco: That would be awesome!!!

lavidamd

Very cool! I definitely like these services that allow you to use the contents of your fridge and your pantry to build menus and recipes this way.

A grocery store in my area (Giant) has a customer card that you can get for free. Any time you use the card, it tracks what you purchased. Most of the time, you just get a good discount on items, but you can also see what you've purchased on their website by inputting your card number. From there, it's just copy and paste. I'm going to give it a shot and see what happens.

SonalKolling

@[www.recipe8.com]

Looks neat. recipezaar seems highly represented in results though.

I created a Google custom search engine for recipes at [www.recipe8.com.] It will find recipes from a variety of sites. I also did my best to keep the repeated results down. There are thousands of sites that use the same databases. I count them only once.

You can use google searches like "banana -bread" if you don't want a bread recipe.

Tell me what you think, and let me know if there are other recipe sites to include.