Kitchen Computers
The more I spend time cooking in the kitchen using recipes I’ve downloaded, the more I wish I had a good spot for my computer in the kitchen. I used to think that a computer in a kitchen was just a frivolity. An “ooh, look at how techy I am!” thing.
But, recently I’ve started collecting my recipes in EagleFiler. This is perfect because I’m able to set up general categories for recipes, but I can also tag them up according to who likes them, what time of year is best to make them, main ingredient, etc. I can also add notes of my own to recipes without having to print them out every time I print out the recipe.
So what’s the problem? The printer is upstairs and the computer is downstairs. I hate running up and down every time I want to cook something different. Plus, now we have two repositories for recipes: a 3-ring binder for hard copies and my EagleFiler library for soft copies. Some recipes are in both, but most are only in one or the other. I’d love to get everything together into one place. But, that would have to be in my 3-ring binder because I use the hardcopies to cook.
So, this is where I would really like to have the computer in the kitchen. I guess I’ll just keep on dreaming.