Compare recipes

Pick a dish and you get a dozen recipes for it, each one insisting it is the right one. Each recipe comparison here puts every version in the library side by side instead: flour and sugar by weight, the temperature and the time, and how many it feeds. So you can see what the recipes actually disagree about before you pick one.

Every figure is one the recipe itself stated. Where a recipe said nothing, the cell is empty rather than filled in with an average.

• Chocolate chip cookies

  Every chocolate chip cookie recipe in the library as one comparison: flour, butter and sugar weights, oven temperature and bake time, side by side.

• Banana bread

  Banana bread recipes from across the library in one table: flour and sugar weights, oven temperature, and how long each one actually bakes for.

• Fried rice

  Fried rice recipes side by side — what goes in, how long it takes, and how many the pan is meant to feed.

• Mac and cheese

  Macaroni cheese recipes compared: sauce base, bake temperature, timing and servings, from every version in the library.

• Carrot cake

  Carrot cake recipes as one table — flour, sugar and butter weights, oven temperature and bake time across every version in the library.

• Chocolate cake

  Chocolate cake recipes compared: flour, sugar and butter weights, oven temperature and bake time, side by side.

• Butter chicken

  Butter chicken recipes side by side — timing, servings and what each version actually puts in the sauce.

• Cinnamon rolls

  Cinnamon roll recipes compared: flour, butter and sugar weights, proving and baking times, and oven temperature.