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Any #coding advice for assigning #ratios for substitutes. Say I have a recipe for a meringue with a certain amount of powdered sugar, a certain amount of egg whites, and a certain amount of lemon juice. If I'm vegan, I may substitute the egg whites with aquafaba. I know that 2 tbsp of aquafaba is a substitute for 1 egg white. However, aquafaba can also be 3 TBSP: 1 whole egg and 1 TBSP : 1 yolk. It may be for baking, or emulsion, or binding, or more. There's just so many different ways it can go and I'm overwhelmed with trying to figure out how to assign values in an intelligent way so that I can use it later on in altering recipes. And this is just aquafaba. This isn't even to mention all the millions of other ingredients and their substitutes. For example eggs as a basic ingredient can be substituted with many things such as aquafaba, applesauce, yogurt, banana, tofu, chia, and then there's even mixtures of more than one thing, like oil+H2O+baking powder. #codingtips #techsupport