Cooking for Engineers

Sparks

Found this site a few days ago. Fantastic - I especially love the adaptation of nasty spiderman diagrams to explain a recipe very quickly - it's done with html tables so I can't post an image quickly, but look at the bottom of the recipe on this page for a good example.

Alun

Sparks wrote: »

Found this site a few days ago. Fantastic - I especially love the adaptation of nasty spiderman diagrams to explain a recipe very quickly - it's done with html tables so I can't post an image quickly, but look at the bottom of the recipe on this page for a good example.

ROFL (BTW for the non-software engineers amongst you, they're actually called Nassi Schneiderman diagrams - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi-Shneiderman_diagram !)

Sparks

No engineer who's ever used them in anger has ever called them anything but Nasty Somethingorother diagrams except during presentations to the boss

Alun

Sparks wrote: »

No engineer who's ever used them in anger has ever called them anything but Nasty Somethingorother diagrams except during presentations to the boss

Yes, you're right enough there. I had the dubious pleasure of working in Germany in the 80's where these things were rife. They were known there as 'Struktogramme', and were incorporated into some DIN standard or another. We had no tools to generate the things and had to resort to using ASCII characters (+-_/|\) to draw them using a (rather crappy) editor. Those were the days

Sparks

*shudders*

Ponster

Great site !

I've used it to make their Spicy Barbeque Sauce in the past and it's pretty much the only BBQ sauce recipe I use now.