Quick Recipes for quick cooking.

For the new appearance of Smart Kitchen we have developed a recipe API. It is now the central point of contact for all Smart Property recipes and is used by Smart Kitchen, FaXoredge and iMpuls.

The GraphQL interface delivers recipe data in real time (and rapidly 🚀). But not only that, thanks to one intelligent search, it is also the backbone of the Smart Kitchen search function.

person cuts vegetables from a bird's eye view
A woman and a man cooking together

Main Ingredients of the New API

  • Recipes with seasonal ingredients are weighted higher
  • Personal diets (vegan, gluten-free) are observed
  • Central recipe API for Smart Kitchen, FaXoredge and iMpuls
  • High performance and complex queries thanks to GraphQL

The relevant recipes immediately on your plate

The recipe API aggregates contents of different origins and provides them with different platforms Requirements available. The recipes and the search index are regularly imported from the editorial system optimized. The recipes are live with community data (ratings, comments and questions) from Reactions enriched: Tastes great, but even better with a little chili.

The interface can handle multiple clients. It provides recipes for Smart Kitchen, FaXoredge and iMpuls. thanks to GraphQL is a flexible query tailored to the client and the context possible: only the respective Required fields are queried, be it picture and title or all steps and detailed nutritional information.

three pizzas in one oven

The right recipe right away

The Smart Kitchen website relies on a lightning-fast search. The recipe API offers full text search in a large number of recipes, combinable with filtering according to categories such as & ldquo; vegan & rdquo; and & ldquo; Dessert & rdquo ;. Even complex search queries deliver relevant results - thanks to Elasticsearch and Autocorrect, Bigram Matching, Stemming and synonym recognition with an average response time of only 40ms.

Looking for inspiration? The autocomplete function takes care of typing and provides cooking ideas. Pizza… Margherita? Pizza bread? With prawns?

Breathtakingly fast

20’000

rpm

Recipe API peaks

34

ms

Average response time

20

Percent

Better search results

«Basis for flexible and sustainable recipes»

The recipe API lays the foundation for flexible and sustainable use of recipe data. It enables platform-independent use and a state-of-the-art search.

Hassan Nisar, Project Manager Digital Platforms & Product Owner smart stores punjab

Thanks to Big Data, the right products in the shopping cart.

A recipe has ingredients, but products end up in the shopping cart. This is where the recipe API bridges the gap. It will suitable products are listed that can be added directly to the shopping list. Is a preference known, suitable products are suggested, such as organic milk. With Hadoop, the preference of buying in the Smart Property calculates personalized. Thanks to the innovative use of big data, the Recipe search through shopping to the finished menu are offered meaningful functions that make life easier.

Always the right recipes

The interface delivers recipes according to seasonal relevance. If you are looking for a risotto in spring, for example, A wild garlic risotto is suggested, whereas in autumn a boletus risotto is weighted higher. Personal preferences such as vegan or lactose-free diets are also included, if known, in the Weighting included.

Fresh wild garlic on a cutting board
A cow udder on a green meadow
Alex Bowin

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