It’s a slow process, but we’ve just recruited another user to meltingfood – my cousin in Singapore who also likes to cook! I’m feeling quite validated, as Jenny is another person who likes to cook different things all the time. She’s got a few recipes bookmarked in IE and a lot of recipes in her head. Some fantastic ones too, as she’s selling her cakes and chilli to her friends.
Together, we tried a new recipe for a Chinese dessert. Jenny had already been passed a few adaptations from a friend and as we didn’t have the exact ingredients, we took some liberties with the recipe. It wasn’t bad, but we had to add quite a bit more sugar and we decided that the next time we wouldn’t soak the rice.
And this is where meltingfood steps in. The next time either of us tries it, we need to remember which recipe we started with, how we adapted it and how we wanted to improve it in the future. So the challenge is, in that time after you’ve just cooked it, you need to add the recipe into meltingfood – and that’s quite a big ask when the alternative is to eat a freshly cooked dessert. Just highlights that we need to make it as easy as possible to be a contributor.
Now over to Waldo for the impromptu usability test…
