Can you write a recipe in 140 characters?

by Shayna Glick, Posted Jul 23rd 2008 @ 10:00AM

Many of you have, by now, heard of Twitter, the social networking tool used to post short messages to your friends about what you're doing at the moment. Loads of people use the service, and you can even follow Slashfood. But can you share a recipe in 140 characters or less (140 being the maximum amount of characters Twitter allows)?

Well, Cookbook sure thinks so. If you're on Twitter, you can follow Cookbook for regular recipe updates. For the most part, the recipes seem fine. In order to share a recipe in that number of characters, though, you've got to use as many shortcuts as possible, and that does make some of the recipes hard to follow, in my opinion.

Overall, though, it's a pretty neat concept. It's kind of like the Cartoon Kitchen on Serious Eats, only it's delivered right to you. What a way to bring cooking into the 21st century.

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7-23-2008 @10:49AM Colin said... I followed them, but not sure I won't unfollow because the recipes really are hard to read. I bet there's plenty of good recipes that can fit in 140 chrs and still not use much shorthand.

"Prosciutto, heavy cream, and parmesan cheese over bowtie pasta and peas."
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7-23-2008 @10:49AM beanspants said... Buy beer and lime.
Open beer.
Cut lime in fourths.
Squeeze lime into beer.
Drink.
Enjoy!

85 characters.

I think a Banana sundae could be done as well.

Using abbreviations that are not universally understood is cheating.
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