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Most recipe search engines are very simple: a user types a query (like 'shrimp with garlic') and the engine returns a list of recipes which contain those words. Typically, the recipes returned will require many additional ingredients the user might not have at home. When coming across an interesting recipe, the user then either leaves out the additional ingredients or heads out to the supermarket to buy them. It is precisely this problem that Supercook aims to solve.

Supercook returns recipes you can actually make right now with the ingredients you have. It even tells you exactly how many recipes you can make, broken down into 'Starters', 'Entrees' and 'Dessert' categories. With Supercook, finding a great recipe is no longer a hassle, simply put in all the ingredients you have at home and Supercook will instantly provide you with hundreds of recipes that are all within your reach. If a recipe requires ingredients you do not have, Supercook takes the guesswork out by clearly listing the additional ingredients you will need. This eliminates wasted time spent browsing through recipes to determine whether or not a recipe is right for you.
When first visiting Supercook, you will notice a section on the left labeled 'My kitchen'. The goal is to add the ingredients you have at home into 'Your kitchen' on Supercook. Adding ingredients is easy, simply type the name of the ingredient like 'ground beef'. With every new ingredient you add to 'Your Kitchen', Supercook automatically figures out the best recipes you can make, trying first to find recipes which call for ingredients you have, or alternatively, recipes which only need minimal extra ingredients.

Supercook is a search engine, so it constantly crawls the web to find new recipes. Well over 250,000 recipes have already been found.

Supercook actually learns with every new recipe it finds. It automatically learns things like which ingredients pair well, and which do not. Using these learned statistics, Supercook can automatically figure out which ingredient substitutions are possible in a recipe, thereby widening the scope of recipes available to the user at home.
Supercook was founded by Assaf Rozenblatt, 27, in October of 2007. Prior to Supercook, Assaf was founder of natural language search engine Brainboost.com. Brainboost went on to be acquired by Answers.com in December of 2005. Assaf then served as Director of Natural Language Research at Answers.com for one year. Born and raised in Brooklyn NY, Assaf is a self taught software developer with no formal training. Programming since the age of 12, Assaf primarily enjoys working on artificial intelligence software that enables computers to do amazing things like answer questions and even taste food (a science project when he was 14). Continuing with Supercook, Assaf is committed to developing new and innovative software that he hopes can make life a bit simpler for us all.


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