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#Recipe proportions calculator

An online calculator for comparing different recipes for a single dish.

This was inspired when I was looking for a chutney recipe: there seemed to be a variety of recipes that used a wide range of different proportions. I wanted to compare these, but it was a bit of a manual job so I decided to automate it.

For each recipe, a set of ingredients is input; the amount for each of the ingredients is normalised (so that all different measurements, including imperial, cups (volume) and eggs can be compared against metric measurements), and a bar produced using a canvas element so that the proportions can be seen. This can be repeated for each different recipe and the proportions compared.

Currently the measurements are all assumed to be grammes.

##Still to do

• Produce sectioned canvas bar (colour coded)
• Create normalisation formulae and function
• Write the list of ingredients on the page as they're entered
• Produce further results divs on the page using Javascript
• Make the bar responsive - read the length when it's less than 600px

##Future ideas

• Produce fallback for older browsers, maybe using ASCII art
• Save results in a database so they can be returned to
• All ingredients listed and displayed in alphabetical order