Pasta Planner
A visual tool for designing pasta dishes. Pick a shape, a sauce (pesto always included), and toppings — Pasta Planner generates a step-by-step cooking guide.
- Year
- 2024
- Role
- Solo build
- Tech
- React
- Vite
- IndexedDB
What it is
A combinatorial cooking guide. Three columns: pasta shape, sauce, topping. Pick one from each and the app generates a numbered cooking sequence with timings.
Why combinatorial
Most weeknight pasta is a remix of things you already know how to do. The art is in the combination, not in any individual technique. Pasta Planner treats the choice as a small grid problem and lets you riff.
What's in the data
About sixty pasta shapes, twenty sauces, and thirty toppings. Not every combination is good — gnocchi with cream sauce and chilli flakes is fine, bucatini with pesto and tomato is not — but the app doesn't gatekeep. You're an adult.