Greetings from the Mad Tagger!
Hey, crocketeers! Our intrepid mods, shanin and erian, were considerate enough to take me up on my recent offer to take on the task of tagging ALL of the posts in the community's 6+year history. I'm starting at the beginning and working my way forward, so if you can try and remember to tag your new posts as you make them, that would be 31 flavors of awesome. (If you're looking for a tag and don't find it, leave me a comment here, and I'll try to add it as quickly as possible.)
Some of the new tags I'm adding as part of the process:
And a question: Are people actually using the 6/8/10 hour tags? It would seem to me that they could be confusing, since many of the recipes I see list cooking times for both low and high temperatures. (The actual cooking times tag, used for questions of the "How long should I put x in the crock?" variety, isn't going away.) Unless I see a serious demand to keep them (or I get overruled by the boss!), odds are these will be going away.
Some of the new tags I'm adding as part of the process:
- more protein sources: "Pork" is not "ham" is not "sausage" (especially when that sausage is made out of chicken!). I've also added the chicken-whole tag, for those recipes that call for an entire bird.
- wine, beer, and alcohol: A fair number of recipes call for one or the other of the first two, and occasionally you'll see something like Spicy Vodka Tomato Sauce, which is neither.
- various ethnic cuisines: Not every country will be represented; some will be combined into catch-all tags such as islander, which will cover things like Hawaiian chicken, Pacific-style short ribs, or Caribbean jerked pork (not that I've found one of those yet, but I wouldn't put it past y'all) chicken (See? I knew I'd find one!). If I find a recipe that gets expressly flagged as kosher, I'll tag that, too.
- holiday: How many people were looking for corned-beef recipes over the last two weeks? ;-) If a particular dish is inseparable from a particular holiday, odds are you'll find it here.
- diet: Another catch-all tag, covering Atkins, Weight-Watchers, etc. There is also a new nutritional info tag, for recipes that include those details whether or not they are specificially identified as diet.
And a question: Are people actually using the 6/8/10 hour tags? It would seem to me that they could be confusing, since many of the recipes I see list cooking times for both low and high temperatures. (The actual cooking times tag, used for questions of the "How long should I put x in the crock?" variety, isn't going away.) Unless I see a serious demand to keep them (or I get overruled by the boss!), odds are these will be going away.