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Hello,

A quick question about enhanced searching.  Will we have the ability to search for “boneless” cuts or “bone-in, skinless” etc?  I’d love to be able to narrow my search results by the cut of meat I have available especially for chicken recipes. 

Thanks so much,
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The new filtering will allow you to filter down your search results using any of the categories - ingredients, recipe type, ethnicity, special diet, meal/course or occasion.  It won't change the names of the ingredients, so chicken breasts will still be the ingredient name.  We decided early on that the ingredients list would get very unwieldy if every variation of an ingredient was listed.  We do appreciate this means you can't search as narrowly as you would like.  I would suggest setting up a Category (or Bookmark as it will be on the new site) called "boneless, skinless, chicken breasts" and adding recipes to that category as you come across them in a search for chicken breasts.

Since it's been awhile from this last post, I was wondering if there is yet a way to search for specific cuts, such as bone-in?  I tried to search for bone-in pork shoulder, but was unable to filter out all the unspecificed "pork shoulder" recipes (which are mainly boneless).  

If you search "bone-in pork shoulder" or "bone-in pork" with "" it will look for the exact word match and that should get rid of the "pork shoulders" recipes.

That being said if this way of indexing meat cuts is new you wouldn't necessarily have all of the historical recipes included (Jane can maybe shed some light), but that is still something.

Also that wouldn't work in that case, but note that you can also use + and - like  +pork +banana -shallots (to have only recipes with pork and banana but not the ones with banana shallots, for instance)

Agaillard is correct that the very specific indexing of cuts of meat is a more recent change in our 15 year indexing history. So there will be a lot of recipes that have the ingredient "pork shoulder" rather than "boneless pork shoulder" or "bone-in pork shoulder". We don't have the resources to go back and re-index every book indexed before the change. However, we, and volunteer members, are going back over some previously indexed books, adding page numbers, eggs (another change as eggs used to be counted as store-cupboard ingredients) and part of that review is changing ingredients to more specific options.

If any member would like to do this review on one of their own books, please do contact us and we can assign it to you. Or even just let us know if you spot individual recipes where a change of ingredient name would be helpful for your searches.