On Wednesday, SousChef’s online recipe database passed 100,000 recipes. This represents an order of magnitude more recipes than I ever though might be submitted in the first year of the product’s life. This number of recipes brings SousChef onto the same level, in terms of amount of content and in our opinion vastly superior in terms of user experience, with some of the medium size recipes sites. This is something I never really expected to happen. Ever. But definitely not in the first year. This huge amount of growth has not come without growing pains—we continue to work on improving search performance, both in speed and accuracy, and are working to add more features to the cloud.

Because this is such an important milestone for SousChef, I want to share some stats to illustrate the current size of the cloud:

SousChef now has over 30,000 active users, of which almost 4,000 have contributed recipes. This works out to each contributing user adding, on average, 25 recipes. In reality, many contribute more—our largest contributing user alone has added a staggering 20,315 recipes. To cook every recipe in the database it would take you 92 years cooking 3 courses per meal per day. Lastly, the recipes in the cloud contain references to roughly 1.1 million ingredients, bringing the the cloud to an average of 11 ingredients per recipe. I don’t know about you, but I am stunned by some of these stats.

In closing I just want to say thank to all our users and we hope to continue making a it easier and more fun for you to cook with you computer (and soon iPhone!) going forward.

In other news: We have a couple other projects and possibilities in the cards so stay tuned for more info!