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If enough people respond, it would be awesome if we could have a food/recipe/cooking tab added.

Something like Automat, Mess Hall or Snack Bar.. or something... a place to post anything food related (recipe swap, cooking, how-to, idea/discussion, reviews and food porn (both of the food and the appliances/cookware used to make the food))!

I love reading everyones adventures with food but it would be nice to have it in its own area :-)

If this is out of line, please delete.. I'm gonna go whip up a mess'a somethin.
 
Sounds plausible to me. We get some food items drift through Super but soon scroll off into archive since the predominance of traffic is appliance related. A separate tab would allow food items to remain visible longer.

I totally defer to Robert's concept of where the overall forum goes. Let's just say, he's never been wrong.
 
If I may...

As a Chef, I have tried many recipes from Kevin, Joelippard, Terry, Kelly and so many others.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to dig out all those recipes and archive them.

We have many talented people here when it comes to wielding a French Knife or spinning a Rolling Pin.

When I bake or make something from here and people ask me where I got the recipe, I tell them from "My Appliance Club".

They look at me and say "Huh" or "Where" ?

I like the names Josh came up with too.
 
I Sympathize....

....A lot of good Super threads get pushed down very quickly because of all the detergent threads on this forum.

I've long thought Super would benefit overall from giving the detergent mavens their own forum, called something like "Soap Opera." If one is not deeply interested in detergents (other than finding one that works and doesn't cost the earth), the Super forum can sometimes be about as interesting as a reading of the Bucharest telephone directory.

Getting the detergent threads out of Super would, I feel, allow many other topics to flourish a bit more.
 
Considering the total traffic in Super, I wonder if there's enough related to detergents and/or food to justify another forum, especially one that would be unrelated to the rest of the site. According to the help screen when posting it's supposed to be what Super, ATTT etc are for. But if I had to choose one it would be for laundry products, since it's peripherally related.

If a food forum is added I hope it will include kitchen appliance/gadget reviews, along with recipes, food reviews etc.
 
While it's a good idea, the problem is there is no room left at the top of the navigation bar for any more forum icons. What that means is I would have to completely redesign the top navigation bar, (probably a 20+ hour project at minimum). While that is something I have on my want to do in the future list, with my current work load at the moment I wont be able to get to that this year. Maybe that could be something for next year's list of major changes to the site.

I have wanted to add more forums, but again I cannot do that without a major redesign. And I may add that users generally do not like major changes to the site so it will have to be done carefully.
 
Hope I'm not steppin' on any toes here....

...but this is a washer site. Be it clothes, dishes - what have you. Naturally, that is going to include associated products or devices, (detergents, rinse aids, clothes dryers etc.) I feel that the three other forums are quite enough (again - just my opinion) because they do support the community that is devoted to those washers, dryers, dishwashers....but the principal purpose of the site - to me- is the discussion of washers.

There are over 3100 member profiles on this site, and while each was drawn here by their desire to communicate with others about washing machines, I'm sure you will find with those same 3100 plus folks that many OTHER things they are interested in. And, being a washer site, the three other forums provide in my opinion an ample area for those other interests.

Robert, I think you've done a wonderful job designing, and maintaining this website, and I think it's perfect the way it is. But, if you feel a need to add another forum - might you consider doing one for toasters?
 
While I like the idea I think it would clutter up the site. There is something nice about simplicity.

Perhaps an answer would be a sub-forum, several could be linked under Super, since technically it would call under that heading. Downside is some, many? Might not frequent the sub sections and we would loose some of the wide ranging discussions. I like to see some of the twists and turns a topic might take, if we loose a segment of the population we loose input and variety.

Be careful what you wish for.
 
I by no means meant to suggest that Robert was doing a poor job.

If I didn't have this site, I dunno what I'd do with the bulk of my spare time...

That being said, Yes this is a *washer site, but it is also an appliance site... Something has to dirty the dishes that go into the dishwashers..

Also, look at all the wash-ins you guys do, its oriented around food and the appliances you are there to see, then maybe some socializing. From what I've seen though its mainly the food first :-)

I only meant to suggest it because I have been getting most of my recipes from here.. I don't go to allrecipes.com or foodtv.com first, I search here. I love the food we have listed here, it rounds this site off nicely because we have the vintage, the modern, shopping, detergent discussion, food and gossip.

I honestly can't imagine this site without all the fabulous recipes, cooking triumphs and food horror stories that you guys post. I just wished they had their own category..

But, now that Robert mentions it, it would be awkward having all the tabs. What if the suggestion were changed to tagging? Each thread started has the ability to be tagged about its subject pertaining to the parent group (washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, fridges, ranges, small electrics and food etc) and the ability is then given to display only specific tags at a time?

Now mind you that is only a suggestion, I am not in any way criticizing this site and can only imagine the hard work it takes to keep the site up and capable of handling the traffic.

I just tend to be a bit outspoken and sometimes need to keep my fingers off the keys! :-)

**I hit 200 ;-)**
 
Don't get me wrong.....

I'm a chef...love coking....and if that will not mean too much work for Robert, then yes, sure! I'd love that!
But also have to agree that everything that is discussed beside appliances both small and big, and detergents and anyway laundry or small appliances inherent stuff in the Super forum is really a plus for the forum, and even website that is....
You Can still discuss recipes, vehicles and tips for the home and curious facts in the Super......even though it did born for detergents and additives, and small appliances originally...
If you create a space for recipes, then you gotta create another talking cars, advertisements or tips and curious facts, and everything else is dicussed in the super, this for those who couldn't care less to cook etc and divide the other "topics" as well.......and I wonder how far will it go? .
You see, a member already asked a separate one for toaster
Another will ask one dor blenders...
Then there will be those who care of vintage, others who care of new...
I believe that if it has to be, the best solution is dividing some of the other topics like kitchen appliances and gather them with the recipes, even though recipes would always be the "guest" topic you can discuss, but not the main one...

Anyway....whatever we can discuss in the Super except detergents and small appliances is already a plus...a "guest" topic that this section offers you to talk of...
Don't think recipes are also enough discussed to justify a separate forum for them, and are not strictly related to the target and topics this website in the complex talks of, again, I'd personally appreciate this very much....though I feel it would be pushing things too far...??
In any ways, this has to be studied very well.....
 
Hash tag Recipe

When posting a recipe, tag it with #recipe, then it can be searched easily in the search a later.

Malcolm
 
Have to agree with Matt's cautions. +Simplicity, -clutter.

We're all here almost every day, giving all new topics initial exposure then re-exposure as they get replied. Don't recipes archive better on a user's system than on a board? Everything here copy/pastes.

Just thoughts.
 
Jon..... There's already the recipe and food related voice, and it directs you into the Super, not Deluxe...
Or are you saying to put recipes in the Deluxe instead of the Super? If so why not in the Imperial?
In the Deluxe recipes would be off-topic as they'd be in Imperial........
And someone would argue/wonder about why in the Deluxe and not in the Imperial...Both treats washers....as of now, recipes best belong to the Super...
Truth is really doesn't matter where you put a recipe as long as you title the thread "recipe" so people know that's a recipe....naming a thread with "recipe" have the same use, and doesn't matter what button you push to bring you to the destination forum according to the topic, I mean, I could press recipes now and start talking detergents in the same forum, original idea as I understand it was to make one dedicated to recipes, truth here is recipes are strictly correlated to the kitchen appliances and tools the same forrum talks of...
So IMO best solution, is that if there has to be created a new one for food and recipes , is best to include kitchen appliances and recipes all toghether....and let the rest to the super...though as the things are set at the moment, under the voice "food related" are meant to belong in the same Super forum also the vintage food advertisements I love to see, as well under the voice detergents the vintage ones regarding machines and detergents as well as for small appliances...after all they're related to food, appliances and detergents.....
You cannot make one of pure recipes..... I think....
That's why I say that the thing has to be studied very well, and may bring some confusions....
Though if that's a matter of having a kind of recipe book always available and easy to consult, robert might consider work out not a forum, but a kind of personal window like the photos of collection where one could add a personal or favourite recipes, you know, a simple ingredient and procediment page, maybe where you could add pics of the procediment, and that may be linked to the super forum whenever someone wants to discuss it or ask explanations suggestions/ variants, and the discussion thread links may eventually be linked to the recipe page on the bottom ..this way a recipe will be always available for future references as well as related discussions...and will not be forgotten in the archives....
Do you think that might work?
Robert, would it be too costly or complicated such a thing for you?

[this post was last edited: 9/29/2014-08:45]
 
"Truth is really doesn't matter where you put a recipe"

Last I heard AW's free forums are archived by Google but the paid forums are not. So if you want to find recipes via Google it matters at least a little. :)
 
Oh my gosh!!!, You missed the point.....:D
Things needs to be read in a speech complex, not just extrapolate thing by thing...
Did I maybe mention ATT or DL or donating forums? Or i just spoke of speaking of Imperial, Deluxe and especially Super? No! LOL :D
And that doesn't matter anyway as what I was saying was a different thing..
If you name a thread ex:
Recipe: Gnocchi al telegrafo...
"#Recipe # Food #Cooking : Southern Fried Chicken with my new Sunbeam Fryer"....
By naming or insering in thread title the word "recipe" someone who will look or enjoy recipes, food etc...will easily detect it's a recipe and not something else..... And it would be for whatever it is the forum section you're putting it....
Then the decision to make a forum donating or not that's another matter....that it's up to Robert, hypothetically one day he could even decide to make the whole website donating only as far as I am concerned....he already do so many things for our pure sake and for free....
I think that if someone post a recipe is primarily to share among members, and since this website, is primarily centered on appliances, rather than recipes and food, it's even all plus to it and a possibility it offers.... then, if this will also allow your recipe to gain visbility through Google results, even better, but IMO that has not to be taken for granted....and again, recipes and cooking are not the main topic this website is based on....
That sentence you quoted was to mean that by putting or hashtagging the word " Recipe" people will know it's a recipe and it will be found in virtually any forum here easily or at least more, and even if hypothetically there was a whole one for everything, as long as you name it "recipe" it's more easily deterctable that it's a recipe and also will also appear on the serchalator, if you type: "Recipe Apple pie" you'd have more chance to get an apple pie making related thread, rather than just stumble in a thread speaking of cooking-ware and baking dishes to make the apple pie, and so will not be mistaken or missed for something else...
As I have understand it, the proposal was to make the recipes and cooking related stuff more easily detectable by having a forum dedicated to them....and what I wrote was to say, that at times all you may need is to make them easily detectable is titling or hashtagging threads titles according to the topic...
Unfortunately as I said though sometimes recipes are just posted following a thread that initially may have just spoken about appliances....
Perhaps the idea of the external "cookbooks" and related links to pertinent discussion could potentially give even more visbility to these kind of recipes and everything is related and also give more ideas to continue and extend a discussion.......

[this post was last edited: 9/29/2014-10:40]
 
Freddy, I did understand your point. I'm making a different one. Some members use the Searchalator, and others (like me) usually use Google, because there's little if anything in the paid forums we ever need to search for. I'm reminding users in that first group that it does matter to members of the other where posts are placed.

I absolutely agree with your other comments about paid/unpaid forums. Unlike almost all other sites we visit regularly, virtually all of AW's value imo is contained in its free forums not the paid ones. Bravo to the admins for that, and imo they could easily get away with combining Super and ATTT into a single paid forum, but archived via Google along with the free ones. JMO.
 
I think the best approach to all this will be to use the radio button selection that the creator of the thread chooses when they click on "create new thread".

Currently the list of possible choices in the public forums are:

<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Vintage/Antique Automatic Washers, Dryers or Dishwashers at least 20 years old or more </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Modern Automatic Washers, Dryers or Dishwashers made less than 20 years ago </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Twin-tub Washers </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Wringer Washers </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Ironers, Mangles or Iron Related Products </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Laundry or Dishwasher Detergents or Additives </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Wash-in Parties Invitations and/or Pictures </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Ranges, Stoves, Ovens, Refrigerators, Air Conditioners or Vacuum Cleaners </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Small Appliances </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Cooking Products and recipes </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Any other products for the home or home/automobile related posts </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Website related questions or to report bugs </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Appliance Related Wanted or Items for Sale </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Items you are looking to buy </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">eBay Auctions, Craigslist Ads, Classified Ads of Laundry Related Products </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Items you are selling yourself, non-professionally </span></li>
</ul>

Since Cooking Products and recipes is already a selection, that would work well. Then I could have the a drop down topic list on the index page so users can have a way to show only the threads within a forum that they are looking for. However, like everything else, this will only work if users pick the right selection from the beginning.

Again I am very busy at the moment and wont have time in near-term to get this done, but I will add it to the top of my wanted to ad features add list.
 
Recipes

If and when you all decide to get a recipe box set up, I have a fair collection of old cook books to pull from. Most of them are vintage 30's - 70's, regional or DIY from scratch types. I've got a small book case full and some more in boxes.

It's amazing how different a common, tired old dish tastes when done without the usual over processed, lite, imitation, lo-fat, lo-carb, canned soup type of ingredients. Not to start an elitest food rant or bag on anyone that enjoys that sort of fare, but every time I try a recipe from a magazine or on the web I have always had superior results with a vintage version and fresh whole ingredients.
 
a recipe box could be fun..

Lord knows poor Robert must have his hands full already maintaining the site, but if he should decide to add it, I would love a section just for recipes, I have tried sooo many of the vintage ones people have posted, and have yet to be disappointed, my vintage cook books are starting to get jealous when I log in, lol.
 
*gasp* Unimatic!!!

I must've missed something :-) This looks awesome! So do we just search for the tag we are looking for or how does one manipulate this feature?

*SQUEEEEE* LOL Sorry, I'm kinda giddy over this!

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