SuperCook - enter a few ingredients, it will tell you what recipes you can make

Only have a can of chickpeas and an old lemon? Supercook will tell you to make hummus.<p>EDIT: After playing with this for a few minutes I decided I don't like how entering ingredients works. Why can't I enter more than one at a time? If I enter "garbanzo lemon", supercook thinks there's some kind of ingredient called "garbanzo lemon".<p>Also, what would make this really shine is if supercook had the ability to differentiate between a main ingredient and an accent ingredient. If I say all I have is bacon, supercook shouldn't suggest that I make bacon-wrapped scallops...<p>EDIT again: (I'm getting carried away): supercook should differentiate between main ingredients, accent ingredients and things that most people have. So, if I say that I all I have is bacon, supercook should suggest carbonara as a strong possiblity. Most people have some form of spaghetti/linguini and milk or cream. Anyone up for launching a competitor?

This is, strangely enough, one of the most common ideas people propose to YC. We get several every cycle.

For me, this concept seems sort of at odds with the way I cook and grocery shop. I don't often find myself with a wide array of ingredients that I don't know what to do with, but I do find myself spending too much at the grocery store because I can't easily plan a week's worth of meals using some base set of ingredients. I would love a site that gave me 5 meals based around approximately the same ingredients, told me how much of each to buy, and provided information about how to store leftover ingredients and how long they will last. Of course, I know very little about cooking, so maybe I'm the one who's backwards... just my 2 cents.<p>I can see this idea applied to drink recipes, though. I often have 3 or 4 half-empty bottles of different types of liquor- it would be great to get a list of 10 different drinks I could make with friends. On second thought, $10 says there's already a Facebook App that does exactly that...

www.RecipeMatcher.com has gotten lots of press (techcrunch, lifehacker, bbc, local media) from the same idea.

I see lemons, Supercook sees lemonade...<p>Pretty cool app.

Passes my test of usefulness: Camel ~ <a href="http://www.supercook.com/show_dish.asp?l=http://www.recipezaar.com/67495" rel="nofollow">http://www.supercook.com/show_dish.asp?l=http://www.recipeza...</a>

Your Kitchen:<p>&#62; Tortillas, yogurt<p>You can make:<p>&#62; Dog Food<p>You will also need:<p>&#62; Dog Food<p>...? Excellent.

Nice, this is pretty cool! I think this is a pretty unique idea, although I haven't seen much else in this domain. Seems to me like it's genuinely useful also.

Now we just need Internet access standard on all refrigerators and editable microscopic RF ID in all our food.

the your kitchen box can use some text to explain what it's for, especially to new users. better utility of your screen real estate is always good. the pinstripes can stand be toned down just a pinch in opacity, those kind of patterns might be hip but they're an eye sore and an eye strain.

reminds me of <a href="http://snacksby.com" rel="nofollow">http://snacksby.com</a> - which I think is better since it's been around longer and it has more data/recipes -though someone can prove me wrong

It's Webtender for food... :)