Gallery: 25 Amazing Food Infographics, Drawn From 49,733 Recipes
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A detail from a chart showing all 49,733 recipes. The curved axis shows the rating, and the x-axis shows the number of reviews. For the huge, full version, look at the post below.
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The circumference of the circles represent the number of ingredients in each recipe. For the huge, full version, look at the post below.
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By querying our database, we were able to figure out exactly how many pounds of various proteins existed on the site. The single bull's testicle was from a recipe for Rocky Mountain Oysters.
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One of the more novel analyses we did: We looked at recipes of various types, such as sandwiches, and tallied their averages if they included bacon and if they did not. Almost everything improves with bacon, except finicky cream sauces and deserts, which cause the bacon fat to congeal.
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We figured that a good way to see what proteins people were eating was to add up the amounts of chicken, beef, and pork called for on the whole site. Fish was far less popular.
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A chart showing the top-three chefs by total chicken called for in their recipes, multiplied by the number of reviews for each rating. You'll notice that they're all women—presumably because female celebrity chefs try to cook healthier.
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A bar chart showing the overall average rating for several of Food Network's top chefs. We were contractually disallowed from looking at ratings for chefs not current on air, such as Mario Batali.
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Here, we grouped various types of recipes, and analyzed how well each chef did for each grouping. Note the scale, which was necessary to tease out differences since the data were so tightly clustered.
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Women in general did better with lighter meals—which makes sense, given how they tend to cook healthier, as we saw in the previous chicken chart.
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The highest-rated chef was Jeff Mauro, Food Network's so-called Sandwich King. Nothing beats a good sandwich!
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Giada de Laurentiis was another strong all-around performer.
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Here, we mapped all of the 906,539 ratings on the entirely of Foodnetwork.com, yielding a topological map of the website's user base.
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We then went further by calculating the cities with the highest percentage of reviews dedicated to a particular food, such steak.
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Here's the map for lobster. As you can see, thee maps tend to confirm common intuitions about regional food preferences--in this case, the idea that people on the coasts eat more seafood...
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