Mise Recipe Tables

Mise draws a recipe the way it actually works: as a table. Ingredients run down the left. Every other cell is a step, and it brackets exactly the things that go into it. Read left to right and you follow the cooking. Read a cell up and down and you see everything it takes. The point is what a numbered list cannot show you. Two steps side by side with nothing joining them do not depend on each other — so they can be done in either order, or at the same time, or by two people. A list flattens that into one order and then hides it from you. The format is Michael Chu's, from cookingforengineers.com. Mise is a place to keep your own recipes in it. ADDING RECIPES Add from a web page, a PDF, or a photo of a cookbook page. Mise reads the ingredients and steps and works out the table. Everything is read on this device — nothing is uploaded, and there is no account. A recipe read from a scan is a…