Reseptortallet

Reseptortallet is a term used in digital culinary documentation to describe a compact, machine-readable encoding of a recipe. It is designed to support interoperability across cooking apps, websites, and kitchen devices, enabling efficient storage, search, and algorithmic processing of culinary data. The concept emphasizes a structured representation of both content and metadata, making it easier to share and reuse recipes in different contexts.

A reseptortallet typically encodes core elements and optional enhancements. Core elements include title, author or source, servings, preparation and cooking times, a list of ingredients with quantities and units, and step-by-step instructions. Metadata may cover cuisine, dietary restrictions, allergens, difficulty level, regional variants, and tags for flavor profiles. Some implementations support substitutions, alternative ingredients, and links to related recipes. The format is intended to be human-readable for editing as well as machine-friendly for parsing.

Etymology and history: the term reseptortallet is a modern coinage used in culinary informatics and is not tied to a single language. It blends the sense of a recipe (resept) with a suffix that signals a structured data unit or collection. The concept emerged from efforts to standardize recipe data to improve searchability, personalization, and integration with smart kitchen tools.

Applications and limitations: reseptortallet is used by recipe databases, meal-planning apps, and AI-based cooking assistants. Limitations include the need for widely adopted standards to ensure cross-platform compatibility and ongoing maintenance to accommodate new ingredients, dietary guidelines, and regional variations.

See also: Recipe schema, JSON-LD for recipes, YAML recipe formats, Ingredient lists, Data interoperability.