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Granola Builder 🔧

Create your own customized granolas

Granola Builder landing page

I’m excited to introduce Granola Builder, a mini-site that features:

  1. A deep dive Guide into granola, how to make it at home and ways to enjoy it

  2. A Builder that helps you customize your own granola

  3. Posts to share with the community how you’re eating your granola

This is the final post for this Christmas’ Edible Gifts series. Continue reading for a behind-the-scenes look, or click the button below to visit the site.

What is Granola Builder?

The Guide

A section from the Definitive Guide to Granola

If you’ve ever considered making granola at home but weren’t sure how to get started, the Definitive Guide to Granola is for you. It covers a list of popular granola ingredients, includes a formula (featured above) for customizing your granola, has a detailed step by step recipe with tips on how to make granola clusters, and contains a list of ideas on how to enjoy your granola (my favorite way is to have it in a yoghurt parfait mixed in with fruits and honey).

The Builder

The Granola Builder in action

For those who’ve made granola before or if you’re looking for inspiration, the Build feature lets you choose from a list of popular ingredients in each category. Pick your favorites or click the “Randomize” button if you like taking risks can’t decide. When you’re done, Granola Builder creates a recipe using your selected ingredients.

Fun Fact

Not every ingredient is selected equally when randomized. I did an analysis of 100+ granolas from different brands and their ingredients before coming up with this list of popular ingredients. The more popular ingredients have a higher chance of being selected.

The instructions are customized to your selected ingredients

The name and description are generated using AI (Instruction: Come up with something punny), but the instructions are based on the steps described in the Definitive Guide to Granola. You can also scale the ingredients up or down by changing the number of servings.

Community Posts

If you make your customized granola and really enjoy the recipe (and I hope you do!), you can take a picture of your granola and share it with the community. Click the “Post a review” button either on the home page or your granola recipe page and upload your photo and review. No sign ups necessary!

Why build a mini-site just for granola?

It’s been an annual Christmas tradition for me to gift granolas to family, friends, and colleagues. I experiment with new flavors every year, but with the same formula that’s described in the Definitive Guide to Granola. This site is as much to help myself to come up with fun ingredient combinations as it is to make it more fun for home cooks everywhere to bake their own homemade granolas.

I started Nommune because I believe anyone can cook. Not just simple recipes, but using advanced techniques, with personalised ingredients and steps, and with the confidence to come up with their own dishes.

Granola Builder is an example of how Nommune approaches this goal differently.

  1. A structured educational guide so cooks understand the process and not just the recipe, allowing them to modify the recipe as needed.

  2. A fun and interactive builder to personalize/customize the recipe.

  3. A way to share their creations with the community.

Are there more mini-sites planned?

Yes! There are a few concepts under consideration that are planned for 2025. If you have any ideas that would work well in an interactive manner, respond to this email or contact me directly.

And if you like Granola Builder, please share it with friends who love to cook or eat!

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