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Cooking for other people. Likely inexperienced with substitutions or how to evaluate and pick vegan/vegetarian/etc recipes. May only have partial knowledge of the food preferences of the person they’re cooking for.
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Interviews
We interviewed a vegan who is experienced at cooking vegan food, a vegetarian who is a relatively novice cook, and a person who often cooks for a vegan friend.
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The person who often cooks for a vegan friend stated that she figures out what to cook by asking her friends or looking things recipes on the internet, using Google. She will also often just take a recipe she knows and replace certain problematic ingredients with vegan substitutes. When trying to find vegan substitutes, she usually uses the internet or asks her vegan friend what to use and, if brand specific, where to buy it. She finds it occasionally difficult to find variety in things to cook and to figure out exactly what vegan substitutes she should use. She also said that a way to find recipes, vegan or not, by inputting the ingredients she had would be pretty nice to have.
Needs/Goals
- Find multiple versions of a common recipe that fit within a set of dietary restrictions
- Find recipes created specifically for vegans/vegetarians/etc
- Suggest substitutions for problematic ingredients such as meat, dairy, or gluten.
- Find recipes appropriate for a given skill level
- Find recipes based on ingredients a user has on hand
- Find recipes that teach a specific skill and help the user improve their cooking skills