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Why is learning to cook important?

Relieving Stress: Cooking is fun way to relieve stress after a hard day of school or work.
Expanding horizons: Understanding world cultures, customs and flavors and gain a new perspective!
Life skills: like eating healthy, budgeting your money, and cleaning
Save some cash: Cooking is less expensive than eating at restaurants and fast food joints.
Boost your health and wellness: Preparing fresh foods will put much-needed nutrition into your diet and increase your energy and quality of health in the short and long run..
Spread the love: Cooking creates a culture of giving and receiving positive energy to the people around you.
Express yourself: Cooking activities are a great way to express your creativity. You are the master of the canvas. Try new things! You can always eat your mistakes. Mmm, yes, those delicious mistakes!

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The Home Cook

Our project is a website that aims to help home cooks develop their skills, regardless of skill level. We have four main features that work in unison to provide a friendly user interface and a good experience. ��Check out our website!

https://thehomecook.glitch.me/

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Survey

Our first feature is a survey that our users can take to receive personalized recommendations. ��We classify our recipes using three values:

Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian, Non-veg
Allergies: Soy, Nuts, None
Cooking Skill Level: Advanced, Intermediate, Beginner
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

�The computer then uses all these values as parameters to inform and redirect the user to their personalized recommended page. This makes our website convenient and efficient to browse through.

Website link: https://thehomecook.glitch.me/

Code link: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/thehomecook

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Recipes

Our next feature is the recipes.

We compiled recipes for: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert.

These recipes are sorted into categories:

Skill level: Beginners, intermediate, and advanced
Food restrictions: Allergies; vegan, vegetarian, nut-free, and soy-free

These restrictions and recipes were accounted for to accommodate a variety of users.

Website link: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, Dessert

Code link: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, Dessert

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Resources & Tips

On our resources and tips page, we have weekly tips that are shown to enhance our user's cooking skills.

For this week, we have a spread on Knife skills as well as some general baking tips for guidance.��This page discusses the proper knife grip, using a helping hand while cutting, as well as a demo video demonstrating this.

We hope that these tips will come in handy when our users are cooking in the kitchen!

There are also baking tips to help take their skills to the next level. We remind users about the simplest tips such as making sure you read the recipe before hand, and more advanced tips such as not over-mixing and using correct measuring technique.

Website link: https://resources-and-tips.glitch.me

Code link: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/resources-and-tips

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EchoAR

Another main feature is our EchoAR page where users can scan these QR codes to see some common kitchen items such as a knife, blender, cutting board, toaster, oven, and stove in AR!

It is important for cooks of any level to familiarize themselves with these items so that they know to use the proper gadgets when cooking so that their cooking process will go smoothly.

Website link: https://echoar.glitch.me

Code link: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/echoar

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Challenges We Overcame

One big challenge we encountered and overcame was trying to get the recommendations for the user based on our survey.

This was a big part of our app as we knew that recommendations would be such a useful feature for our users.

With persistence, we were able to finally get it to work and this was a big accomplishment for us. Now, the page now successfully redirects the user to their personally recommended page.

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Future Steps

In the future, we hope to add more recipes and festive categories to our website to create a larger database.

We also hope to add a feature for users to comment on the recipe and share feedback with others.

We also hope to create games to enforce cooking vocabulary and tools to make our website interactive.

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