Reporter | Wu Rong
Edited by | Ya Han Xiang
Many places across the country are experiencing a new round of covid-19, and home isolation has made many people worry about how to cook every day. In response to the needs of this special period, the B station up master named "Witty Yunyoujun" has developed a cooking gadget. This tool has a concise web page, after selecting ingredients and kitchen utensils, you can pop up a series of combined recipes, click on the favorite recipe, you can quickly jump to the cooking video of Station B.
In order to expand everyone's choice range, "vegetables" and "meat" can be selected in the ingredient options, and the recipe also provides two options: accurate matching and fuzzy matching. In addition, click add the cooking gadget to the home screen of the phone to use it as an APP.
Image source: Cooking gadget
Essentially, this gadget is more like a collection of simple recipes. "Witty Yun Youjun" said that the original intention of the development was to facilitate the isolation of small partners with limited materials at home.
"Many people start hoarding vegetables, but most of the types of dishes they hoard are very simple, such as potatoes, carrots, white radishes, cabbage, etc.; the online forwarded quarantine food manual encyclopedia is rich in content but may be a little dazzling. This gadget is made to help everyone make different dishes according to their poor and limited ingredients, and it can also avoid the information when looking for recipes. He told Interface News.
According to him, some of the data of the gadget is used in the self-transmitted isolated food manual, and it is programmed and processed using software such as VSCode and GitHub. However, due to the limited amount of ingredients obtained during quarantine, recipes and recipes have also been screened, and the options presented are more suitable for making at home during home isolation.
Recipes and recipes were screened for a round, such as a "microwave 5-minute tomato meatbox" suitable for making at home during quarantine.
"It took about 6 hours for the first version to go live, followed by bugs and optimized user experience, including emoji animation when clicking on ingredients." The above developer told Interface News that he is currently studying computer application technology at the Communication University of China, and is currently busy with graduation defense, so the development is still relatively rough, and it is still being continuously updated and maintained.
Despite this, this cooking "artifact" is still well received, from the background feedback data, as of April 17, more than 130,000 people have browsed, and 1.94 million food tools have been selected.
"It is easy to get tired of eating the same food repeatedly, but the tricks (cooking) that you come up with are very limited", some netizens think that "I always struggle with what to eat, I have always wanted such a tool, but there is basically no such function on the market", and some people think that this is a "lazy must", and hope that other versions will be born, such as "randomly generate a week's recipe, and then further generate a shopping list" and so on.
Cooking gadgets are welcome, on the one hand, to meet the needs of contemporary young people "temporary holding Buddha's feet", usually busy with work and do not cook, more is from childhood at home are parents cooking, when the epidemic comes, they have to try to fill their stomachs in limited ingredients, but also to meet the taste buds. On the other hand, the art of drying cooking also meets the social display needs of some young people.
According to a survey conducted by the China Youth Daily Social Survey Center and the Questionnaire Network on 2013 respondents, 55.7% of the respondents often cooked during the epidemic, 87.2% of the respondents searched for new dishes and new practices on new media platforms such as Weibo and recipe Apps, 52.3% of the respondents uploaded photos and videos of their own cooking on social media platforms, and 61.0% of the respondents believed that this was a kind of life interest.
In fact, as early as the early stage of the epidemic, there have been many cooking APPS that originally lived outside the mainstream vision, which have received a large number of visits and downloads, and app such as lazy rice and kitchen are representatives. Wang Xusheng, the founder of the Lower Kitchen APP, once told the media, "I have always thought that cooking is a relatively marginal thing, but when the epidemic came, I suddenly found that this matter was very concerned." "The epidemic has given these cooking apps time to get free customers, but it has also tested the sustainable development of various products, and only if it is easy and convenient enough will it continue to survive after the epidemic."
"Witty Yun Youjun" said that in a strict sense, the purpose of making gadgets at this stage is not to become a large and comprehensive recipe retrieval application, but to help everyone survive the limited situation of ingredients during the epidemic. In the later stage, it is also necessary to continuously update the recipe data and search experience, and consider making an expanded version of the ingredients to assist everyone in daily cooking.