Please, please, please, avoid status cuisines. It's going to be hard to do, because they make good PR. But you will be helping your users a lot more of you hold them off with a ten foot pole. What do I mean by a status cuisine? They are meals that are intended to show that the cook is a worthy person, rather than that the meal is practical, healthy, and good to eat. Here are some examples:

The endurance cuisine: designed to show that the cook has time to spare, the endurance cuisine requires that no ingredient is pre-processed in any way. Grind your own grain, bake your own breadcrumbs, chop your own veg. Using grapes? You should have peeled them!

The hair-shirt cuisine: you have to endure some discomfort if it's good for you, right? This cuisine specialises in sour tastes and unpleasant mouthfeel - often using grains that our stone-age ancestors sensibly gave up for nicer ones.

The gold plated cuisine: this one's obvious. Pricier ingredients must be better - or at least show how much the cook can spend

The obscurantist/connoisseur's cuisine: it can't be good if it's easy to find. The cook can only be good if they know exactly how many 'extras' you need in your virgin olive oil, and what classification of wine you should put in your coq'au'vin.

(Okay this is a bit tongue in cheek - but only a bit. I really do think a lot of recipes are unnecessarily onerous in some way)

I've done a few quizzes on the app now, and I don't get it. The questions feel very contrived, like someone had a quota to fill so just put whatever looked plausible together. They are also _very_ culturally specific.

Questions about eggs barely made sense to me being from the UK, with incorrect pack sizes, animal welfare terms, and completely missed our great standards body that makes it easy to know which eggs have met a reasonable quality bar. It's not that the info is globally applicable, it's that it's an awkward combination of wrong and useless depending on where you live. Starting another quiz about kitchen equipment it seems this is a pattern throughout.

Cooking is deeply embedded into culture, tradition, region, climate, regulatory environment, retail infrastructure, and more. I don't think these quizzes will be able to overcome this without being fully localised per country.

The recipes? Maybe they're better. I don't know, I'm still 7 levels away from being able to know how to make scrambled eggs.

Edit: when I opened the app the first time it asked me how experienced I am and I answered the 3rd out of 4 options, I know my way around a kitchen. The app just asked me to match pictures of eggs to how they have been cooked: fried, scrambled, etc. I'm not sure I can survive this level of patronisation, it's honestly a bit insulting.

Edit: "what sort of pan should you cook eggs in"... "no not a wok, people don't have those at home". Ouch. At best that's incredibly sheltered for a food writer, and at worst it's practically racist.

I wish you good luck but I don't get it either.

The thing that makes Duolingo great is that right away you learn words in a new language. It hooks you. Within 1 lesson you know several words or a phrase with a few variations.

This is more just random trivia about food that no one cares about. I started with the cheeseburger recipe (apparently an advanced lesson or something). Right away it's asking me a bunch of questions about ground meat but teaching me nothing. Where's the hook? I want to see a recipe and learn to make it, not feel like I'm taking a test about a bunch of stuff I was never taught with no obvious path to simply making the thing I want to make. In the 5 minutes I spent on it I feel like I was just getting grilled (metaphorically). The first 5 minutes of Duolingo I actually learned something.

Anyhow, suggestion would be to start right away with the thing people actually want... How to cook the food and make the recipe.

> Recipes are surprisingly deceptive. They seem like instructions you can follow, but a more apt analogy is that the recipe is an iceberg and beginner cooks are steaming along on the Titanic.

Devil's advocate (and very serious home cook): Food Youtube solves all of these problems in various and (IMO) much more entertaining and informative ways. There's a plethora of content ranging from highly-technical restaurant inspired recipes to "authentic" home cooking traditions passed down through generations. Tracking a progress meter isn't going to make me a better cook: having access to lots of different ideas and styles and trying the ones that speak to me will make me a better cook. Also, our tastes are largely inspired by what we ate growing up and there few universally-loved recipes. That's one of the most beautiful things about cooking: there's a million different ways to do it.

You don't know how to chop an onion? There are a million videos on how to do that. Want to know the history of a certain spice? There's a channel for that.

An idea for the long-term future: I've often felt like cooking would be a perfect use case for very simple augmented reality. Often times my hands are messy while cooking, making it hard to deal with a book or smartphone. Also, recipes are often very time-sensitive. If I could see the ingredients/steps quickly, that'd be terrific. Better yet, it'd be nice to see a demo of what I am making, for things that are difficult to describe in words (e.g. whipping egg whites - what does a "stiff peak" mean?). Obviously the hardware would be an issue, given that you're often standing over heat, steam, oil, etc. But its still a dream I have.

I found this very "white people in middle america" centric (sorry but I'm banging my brain to find a better way to describe it).

My options as a beginner are 'greek salad', 'spaghetti & meatballs', 'cheeseburger', 'deli sandwich', 'avocado toast'. Even on advanced it only added 'scrambled eggs', and 'tomato bisque'

To put it another way I found it very non-inclusive.

Not that I expect one app to teach me all the world's cuisine but it would be nice to at least acknowledge up front the bias of the app in its description?

There's nothing wrong with teaching these things but they are not the "beginning" things for a great many cultures including cultures in the USA itself. I doubt the kids of most parents of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Mexican, descent would start with these items.

Sorry if I'm not making any sense. I'm not trying to be negative. I'm just pointing out that the selection offered clearly shows a bias.

For vegetarians or vegans browsing the site, it's not clear if they should even bother to install the app, because there's no clarification of whether the app has a single idea of what "good food" is. One of the examples on the front page is unlocking a cheeseburger recipe.

Sorry, it seems like a whole lessons section is missing from the app. The only way someone can learn currently is by guessing all of the quiz sections.

First question received: "The best indicator of freshness for ground beef is: a) smell, b) whether it was frozen, c) the manufacture date, d) color.

The answer "a" smell was marked incorrect, "c" manufacture date was the "correct one". Uh... maybe... unless it wasn't stored properly.

Other questions: Is all ground beef the same? How long can fresh ground beef can be kept in the refrigerator for?

It really isn't helpful to guess my way through some quizzes to get access to a recipe.

From the privacy policy:

> We may collect the following information from you in order to provide our Services:

> ....

> Your child’s first name;

> Your child’s age or birthday;

Why?

Initial comments:

- On a question that was supposed to load gifs as the answers, only one gif loaded. And it wasn't the correct one, so I had to pick blind.

- You should try some localisation, e.g. 'grilling' is 'barbecuing' in the UK. What you'd call a broiler, we'd call a grill. Could cause some confusion. There's a lot of localisation issues from what I've seen, it's very USA-centric.

- I answered a question about cheese storage, it told me I got it wrong and that modern refrigerators were the way to go. So I clicked the only answer that mentioned a fridge, and I got told it was wrong again.

- I don't understand how I'm supposed to be learning anything? It just feels like I'm doing a Buzzfeed quiz

- 'Burger sauce' is just ketchup and mayo, with any other mix-ins you want. There's a lot of variety in burger sauces. The app describes it as "creamy, tangy, onion-y and with little chunks of pickle". The next question says that the 'five main components of burger suace' are mustard, ketchup, pickle relish, onion powder, mayo. Only 2/5 are essential. You can argue for mustard.

- Q: 'Why make burger sauce' - A: 'It's convenient' - what? You're making a new sauce because you want the taste of all the sauces combined, you presumably wouldn't just be putting all of the ingredients on your burger individually as an alternative?

I think it'd be worth looking at actual culinary school curricula rather than making a short buzzfeed-style quiz for each individual ingredient in a dish, there's potential here but I don't think it's going to be a great learning tool in its current form

You're talking about targeting a billion people. Who is that billion people? Is that the western world? Or people in the world with no cooking skills?

Do you have an idea of the distribution of cooking skills in the world / western world? How many people need to develop basic skills?

I went through the app, and I've answered like 30 questions now on food storage/safety and it feels like I'm taking a tedious course. Weird. Is that all it is, food preparation trivia?

Please don't lead with this stuff. Teach me how to make tasty things!

This looks incredible! I would love a macOS app as I spend more time on the Mac than on my iPhone.

Well done for not enforcing account registration and letting me actually try the app.

Love the idea, will definitely try it out.

One bit of feedback I want to give is: when I'm answering questions on the iPhone app, there's a dialog that shoots up from the bottom... this is too much motion and I don't like it. Especially since there are multiple questions back-to-back, it feels a bit nauseating to see that dialog shoot up over and over.

I think a quick fade in (or no transition at all) may be better suited for that part of the app.

I've had very similar ideas, and although I can't quite get the vision of how you're organizing the material since your last pivot, I want to throw in a few ideas (that you may be already doing.)

1) Cooking skills are physical acts of dexterity and timing that can be explained and modeled by text and videos, but not mastered. This is a good place for the use of spaced repetition; every time someone makes a recipe that uses that technique, ask them how they did (and give them the criteria e.g "was the sauce shiny?") Make practicing fading or weak skills, or taking advantage of mastered skills, a criteria for suggesting recipes to the user. i.e. "do you want an Easy, Challenging, or Difficult recipe?" and select based on their current skill level at the techniques involved (and the ingredients at hand.) Choosing Easy would be biased towards recipes utilizing techniques and ingredients that they have mastered, Challenging would be for techniques that they are learning, and Difficult would be for introducing new techniques.

2. Organize learning more around techniques than ingredients. Some techniques only apply to a single ingredient, but most apply to many ingredients. If techniques are verbs, ingredients are conjugations - many irregular, but most regular. Some ingredients require a higher level of a particular technique than others. Figure out what ingredients they like by asking what meals they like, and use those to help suggest future techniques to learn.

3. Many people want to become vegetarian, or vegan, or paleo/Mediterranean/whatever, but don't like the food yet. If a program like this suggests logical progressions to train the palate towards a user's goal, it could help them switch to these diets (clinically picky eaters, or people who have discovered they are pre-diabetic, diabetic, celiac, or that they have fatty liver disease, have a serious problem with this.)

This could be amenable to a machine learning recommendation approach if you ask what meals people enjoyed, you know the techniques they're good at, and you know their diet goals. You could say "buy avocados on your next shopping trip and you can try X, Y, or Z, which people who like what you like also seem to like."

There is a weird bug on your "What do you want to learn about first?" question.

I am able to select both "Cheeseburger" and "Greek Salad" but not "Greek Salad" and "Spaghetti & Meatballs". If I tap "Greek Salad" after first tapping "Spaghetti & Meatballs" then it deselects the "Spaghetti & Meatballs" and selects "Greek Salad" (even with only 1 item selected).

Anyway, cool concept.

Tried a quiz. I'd be nice if there was more explanation about the things I missed. I get a question about naming ingredients. I get some wrong. Afterwards it might be nice to get an explanation about the missed items so I don't have to google myself. Even an in-app link to wikipedia would be enough. I also suspect that most things I got wrong were because of language differences, so translations might be nice as well.

I love this! Already completed the "Scrambled Eggs" series. I really enjoy cooking and this is a fun way to enhance my skills, thank you!

Not to undermine everybody else's feedback, because I 100% agree with what they said, but I started with the tomato bisque lessons, and the contents were much better. I found it genuinely interesting, and as a beginner home cook, I was learning things, such as stuff about acidity, different types of tomatoes etc. However, I still found it dragged out a bit, with too many random unhelpful questions (e.g. which of these is a tomato?). The app is very well designed in terms of the UX, and the only time I struggled was in getting back to the home page after a lesson. Feels like a third option at the bottom, or replacing the X icon with a home icon would be more intuitive.

My last suggestion is a big one, as it changes the app a bit, but why not start with the recipe? Others have mentioned the lack of a hook, and it gives something for the questions to refer to.

Good luck, I sincerely hope you're successful, there's an odd shortage of cooking apps.

Hey, there's a lot of highly-rated negative feedback here. For what it's worth, I _love_ the idea, it's exactly what I want, I'd pay a bunch for it. I really hope y'all keep at it and are able to take constructive pointers out of some of the harsher feedback, because if you _do_ nail this, it'll be incredible.

Idea: start with the recipe, have the lessons based around explaining why the recipe contains certain ingredients, why they work together, how to prepare them (and why we're preparing them in that way). Would be much more informative than just seemingly random, often patronising trivia

And it would also fill a niche that no recipe site seems to fill right now. It's almost impossible to find a recipe that actually explains why you're doing everything, why this ingredient works, etc. Knowing why an ingredient works opens the doors to substitution and recipe modification by the 'student', which is a great pathway to learning. And it would be a hell of a lot more engaging.

Your website has a massive horizontal scrollbar for me on Firefox latest on Windows 10.

If you change the css of .slider.homepage to:

.slider.homepage { bottom: 115px; overflow-x: hidden; }

It will be fixed.

I love this app! It's a little culturally/regionally specific (things like herbs and the types of tomatoes). But that's fine, hopefully this inspires people to do a similar app with thai curry, coconut milk, etc.

One of the reasons I cook is because it's possible to taste food you'd never taste before. I can't get a good halal spaghetti bolognese. Sure, there are restaurants, but they tend to be way overpriced for something that's an everyday recipe. I think it would be interesting to teach people about more exotic ingredients as well.

Also I've been cooking for decades, and even did a recipe startup. And yet I've learned a lot from the beginner tier alone. Big fan of this.

I like the idea but it would be good if the recipes were tied to skills. It also doesn’t matter if you select a different level, you can still only pick the same things. It would also be good to select vegan or keto or gluten free to customize choices. The dishes seem very limited after starting, there’s nothing I don’t already know how to make. On the positive side I like that there’s no need to create an account to get started since I’ll probably delete this from my phone now that I’ve checked it out.

I haven't seen an recipes. Do you only support US measurements (cup, pint, oz, quart. etc)?

That would be a pity.

Just used it and completed a course and I am so much loving this, thanks for your work, will let you know if there are any constructive feedback, so far gooooooood

Does it help with organizing meal planning and generate shopping lists? Those would be killer features. Bonus is automatic online ordering of ingredients.

Something that generates weekly meal plans taking into consideration food preferences, nutrition, time, availability of ingredients, etc and then tells me what to buy or orders it for me.

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This looks great! I will definitely be trying it out.

I haven't seen this asked or answered anywhere and am curious - how do you guys plan to make this profitable? Charging for more "advanced" features? Ads?

I already have the Duolingo owl chasing after me for money (and more time).

FYI, when I sign up with the form at the bottom, the "Thank you! Your submission has been received!" message appears under the white parsnip SVG (`.footer-snippy`) and obscures some of the text. Observed on Firefox v102.

Otherwise, this looks really cool!

I'm not sure whether to apologise for this being off-topic/too tangential or not, but it seems too good an opportunity to pass up:

Yesterday I was on the verge of Ask-HN-ing if there was anything like Duolingo for mathematics?

I studied it as much as anyone (well..) in EE/CS, but don't use much professionally (less than many, I'm sure). I'm not necessarily looking to advance further than I've studied before (I'd like to, but for me Duolingo wouldn't be a good format for it) - but there's so much I've forgotten and wish I still had an intuition for or could draw on as the reason or an analogy for something.

Can anyone recommend a 'Duolingo for mathematics'?

A filter for Pressure Cookers, adjustable by size, would be great.

Since buying a non-stick electric pressure cooker, I've gone from 95% takeout 5% cooking to the reverse. So incredibly easy to throw ingredients in and come back to multiple perfectly cooked meals.

What's with the numerous throwaway astro-turf-y comments from low-activity accounts?

what I don't like about this (in general) is that it's part of the overruling ideology that will turn the internet from a place where you can look up how to make any recipe for free into a place where you have pay somebody a monthly fee to look up how much sugar per cup of flour goes in some dish (to put an example)

of course, this is not exclusive to this project in particular, but it's a crummy trend that just keeps getting worse. and this project is part of this wave.

Why is it an app only? When I cook and follow a recipe I use my laptop as the screen is bigger and I can more easily press the keys with dirty fingers than I can a touch screen.

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The idea sounded kinda cool at first but the first screenshots have "deli sandwich" and "you've unlocked the cheeseburger recipe"... really?

It asked me a true/false question about whether I should buy meat at the deli counter or not. That is completely a matter of opinion, so I uninstalled

What I really need is a browser extension that recognizes I'm on a recipe website and automatically scrolls past the recipe writer's whole autobiography to the section with the ingredients and instructions.

I love how the criticisms about this app are the same criticisms against Duolingo, which also has arbitrary choices that it tries to classically condition you with, while providing you no rhyme, reason, or context as to why a rule would be the way it is, something an actual class would do and to the benefit of people actually trying to learn something.

One question: why not web app? I don't see anything that needs to be enclosed into proprietary Apple/Google ecosystem.

This is awesome. Would love to buy food-type packs from an app like this!

Like, “Teach me the basics of Salads”, or “Advanced stir fry recipes”.

this looks cool but the data collected label in google play claims that it collects emails (under the messages heading). i believe it's probably meant to indicate that email addresses are collected, but the way it's presented it sounds like it collects actual email content. (these new labels are self-reported, right?)

I don't get it. there are literally millions of people offering free cooking videos on youtube, and getting better at cooking isn't difficult at all - you just follow instructions (often in video) and try over and over again until you find something you like.

Is this sort of like a meal service without the delivery of ingredients?

What is the technology stack for your app?

Took me way to long to unlock a recipe. But, the questions were good. Where is my skip to recipe button?

ooh looks cool! are yall going to support stuff like dietary preferences? and is it ad supported or?

Sick! I've really been wanting something like this as an extreme newcomer to cooking.

Not strictly related to the post, does anyone know a good resource to learn cooking?

Very US centric so I won't use it for now, but it's a good start!

Great idea and product name.

TL;DR ive been consolidating my cooking knowledge in an open source recipe site https://github.com/cookwherever/cookwherever

Hey! I am excited to see people developing in this space since this is where my head is also at. Up until two years ago I was eating canned chili and soylent before I was shown the light with The Food Lab and Salt, Fat, Acid and Heat. Ever since I have been trying to share my knowledge on cooking with others with varying levels of success.

What has become clear to me is that there is no one size fits all approach to teaching cooking since it is usually a very cultural experience for most people (as many in the comments have pointed out). That said, SFAH makes the argument that most cuisines are much closer than people think when you consider the functional properties of the ingredients that you are cooking. Pizza is just pasta with yeast *Italian grandmothers slowly turn their heads towards this atrocity*

All of this to say, I believe recipes are critical to jump start the creative process of cooking. When any type of possible failure on the path to completion is experienced (ex. missing ingredient, burnt cookies, etc.) there MUST be some way of recovering or at the very least understanding how that happened.

I have been slowing taking notes on all the cooking knowledge I have come across and have been putting it along side the recipes that inspire me. Forcing learning on someone in the kitchen, who is already probably pretty hungry if cooking is seen as a chore, is not productive. Sharing the joy you get from the art that is cooking is IMPERATIVE for any type of educational resource.

If you are interested in my progress, or want to contribute go check it out! https://github.com/cookwherever/cookwherever

Was this developed in house or was a good portion of it outsourced?

WOW this is basically what I've been wanting to build! Bravo!

Aside from the great idea: I found the naming a little confusing, as there is a online dating platform called Parship and this sounds like a mock.

I'm a culinary school graduate and former professional chef. I appreciate this app touching on techniques and ingredients rather than just throwing recipes at you. Trying to learn how to cook by following recipes is like trying to learn a language by reading pamphlets. The 'why' behind recipes is learnable, the knowledge is useful before you master it, and the shift in results is dramatic.

Resources:

Maybe this app? Haven't really dug into it but it looked hopeful from the description.

An approachable, well-written introductory read on the topic is Michael Ruhlman's Ratio. Start there. Most tech types start with more technical books like Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking. Don't. Technical knowledge helps, but isn't required. Cooking is an art! Approaching it like organic chemistry yields enjoyable nerding but mediocre food. A biology class would be useful for an artist, but if you're learning to draw, take a life drawing class. Taking biology first won't help. Once you are comfortable with Ratio, grab the Flavor Bible for reference. It's a huge paper database of flavor affinities. After getting comfortable with the art of cooking, read McGee. It's well-written enough to read straight through but dense enough to use as a reference. Many decry his less-than-perfect understanding -- his PhD is in Poetry, after all. I've never seen a critic as good at cooking as criticizing people. If they were as interested in cooking as criticizing people, they'd have paid more attention to his book.

Advice on learning to cook really damn good food:

1) Season. Get comfortable with seasoning. Maybe 70% of professional cooking polish stems from proper seasoning. Your tongue only senses 5 things: saltiness, sweetness , sourness , bitterness, and savoriness (glutamates.) Everything else is sensed by your olfactory bulb. Activating your tongue with those senses makes your brain pay much closer attention to what you smell. If your food tastes flat or boring, there's a 90% chance it's under-seasoned. This requires considering ALL of those senses, not just salt. Your folk explanations of seasoning or "common knowledge" approaches to seasoning are probably wrong.

2) Smell everything. Taste everything. Eat a spoonful of Dijon mustard. Bite a bit off of a sage leaf and compare that with dried sage. Contemplate Worcestershire sauce. Let it sit in your mouth and breath through your nose so you really hit your olfactory bulb. Smell that cooking oil that's been sitting around for a few months and compare it to a brand new bottle. Ponder the differences. This practice avoids putting bad ingredients in your food and expands your palate.

3) Move away from recipes. Start thinking about cooking in terms of ingredient ratios and techniques rather than recipes.

4) Learn about heat. Get comfortable with the appropriate application of heat. Learn about dry heat and moist heat techniques. Figure out how things like ingredient temperature and salt content can change that. Pay attention to browning and searing. Learn why you shouldn't crowd a pan.

5) Stop timing things. Start using your 5 senses and tools like a thermometer to tell when something is done. If Rice-a-roni can cook by time, why can't you? The ingredient size, density and moisture content is pretty uniform. Boiling water is uniform enough to yield predictable results. None of that is true when you're, say, roasting broccoli or cooking a steak.

6) Watch relationships. Pay attention to what happens to ingredients when treated in specific ways, and how they interact. E.g. caramelizing onions vs sauteing vs raw... and how they hit differently in salad or onion dip or meat loaf. These differences exist in most ingredients we use.

7) Get experience. Push yourself to experience new things and challenge your reflexive food rejections.

8) Nobody owes it to you to like your dish. Accept that food is emotionally complicated for people. Tastes vary widely and are influenced by everything from cultural exposure to genetics. No matter how much effort you put into a dish, some people just won't like it, and that's fine.

9) Be humble. Deep understanding of food is not a superpower. Little ol' gram gram made the same 15 dishes her whole life, but probably knows more about the subtleties of those dishes and their ingredients than I know about everything else. Complexity is not the pinnacle of good taste or sophistication. Simplicity executed perfectly is often more sophisticated and more difficult than complexity. Focus and good taste are the keys.

Here's a related anecdote. I worked in nightclubs in my early twenties. We got free, ice-cold bottom-of-the-barrel light beer after our hot, stressful, exhausting shifts. I still enjoy reliving that on a hot summer day. I also regularly drank with some household names in craft beer, and a few Sommeliers. Their focused education and experience blew mine away, but my palate was easily on par. So when I order a lawnmower beer in some mediocre bar the 23 year bartender says "here's your glass of horse piss. You know there are some craft options that are just as..." well... he should just be very thankful I'm no longer a chef.

I really think an open source clobe of Duolingo would be really popular. People could upload and share courses similar to Anki.

'Vegetarian' or 'Vegan' mode :)

Tried the cheeseburger recipe. Got the question: "The best indicator of freshness for ground beef is:"

I chose "(B) Smell." Because, you know, that's the answer (though I'm not sure why I'm starting out with a food safety question).

I got a snotty response that I wouldn't be able to smell things that are in a sealed package, and I should always go by the manufacturing date printed on the package.

No. You're wrong. And you're wrong about food safety, which is really not good. You go by smell, sliminess, color. The printed date is a nice guide but NOT what anyone should be using for food safety.

And on top of that, your question doesn't say that you're not allowed to open the package (which... why? in what situation would you be staring at your package of ground beef and refuse to actually open it?) (Edit: Later on it's revealed that this is a quiz about shopping. So a bit of framing/context setting is missing.)

Now I've completed the food safety and "do you know what lean meat is" quiz, and I immediately go into another quiz about buying cheese. It wants me to say which cheese is hard and how to store cheese. What does this have to do with cooking a cheeseburger? I gave up.

It's like you're trying to suck the life and enjoyment out of cooking. This is boring and nothing to do with what I want.

It seems like a knowledge graph the way you've done it is an anti-pattern of actual cooking. You're decomposing every recipe into its ingredients and then asking arbitrary questions about each one. Those questions have nothing to do with the final dish, or how the ingredients work together, or the choices you would make in making this specific dish. It's just "oh, a burger has onion, here is a random question about the history of onions."

What you need is something that shows how the ingredients interact. This is the opposite.

EDIT: I don't mean to be TOO harsh here; I like your mission and the effort you've put into this so far. I don't think a framework of focusing on ingredients in a vacuum, having people get quizzes wrong, and calling them "Junior Chef" is the way to do it.

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this looks real cool. wish i could use it but i don't have a smartphone.

It seems to be iOS only. Any android/webapp plans? Why limit it to iOS?

The app looks yummy!

Looks awesome. Is this bootstrapped or raised?

question to OP. The company who owns Parsnip is Seed & Stone? the same who sells weed online?

Love it! Shared it with my husband!

Obligatory mention: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

How will this make money?

Awesome - downloaded it

great name , great product , team looks killer too

Fantastic stuff!

there a web version? My phone is too old.

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I found duolingo extremely frustrating when I tried to practice a language I already had some knowledge in. It forced me to do a bunch of stuff I didn't care about. As most people will have some knowledge of cooking I think applying this concept to cooking is a bad idea.