No BS Chef

This website is a passion project of mine that I wanted to develop to help me when I'm in the kitchen.

As someone who likes to cook but often struggles to remember the specific requirements of recipes (even ones I've cooked dozens of times before!), I rely quite heavily on written recipes to support the cooking process. For me, I really just want to know how much of each ingredient I require, and how long to cook different parts of the recipe.

Now, I could just use a written diary - which I do when coming up with my own recipes or when modifying existing recipes for my own twist - but for the rest of it I need to find recipes somewhere, and that somewhere is the internet.

One of my major pet peeves about this though is how difficult it is to find a recipe that I like without having to wade through never-ending stories about sentimental experiences the author has with this particular recipe - I really just want to know how long to cook something, seriously!

Enter No BS Chef - it's my attempt to create an online cooking resource for myself and countless other like-minded individuals who just want to cook. This website prioritises the user experience above all else. This means that I will strive to keep this a free platform, devoid of intrusive advertisements and dodgy subscription services.

I've developed this using NodeJS to handle the server-side content delivery and a NoSQL database in the form of MongoDB to contain all of the recipes. This website is also using a collection of plugins like ExpressJS to handle dynamic page generation too.

Currently I am running this in my own scalable 'data center' of sorts which is running a collection of servers and softwares like Docker/Kubernetes, though my intention is to move this to AWS if it starts seeing more traffic than my network can handle.

This website is currently under-construction, though it is live with a limited set of recipes now if you wanted to give it a go. If you have any feedback, please feel free to contact me at contact@msrour.me and I would be happy to hear it!