The recipe organizer with pictures you will actually cook from
You saved two hundred recipes and cook the same six. A visual board fixes the recognition problem: every recipe as a picture, with the time, the servings and whether anyone liked it kept on the card.
The short version
Saved recipes fail on recognition, not on storage. A title in a list tells you almost nothing, so you scroll past food you liked. Keep them as pictures with three facts attached: how long it takes, how many it feeds, and whether the people you cooked it for wanted it again.
A sample board
Things worth cooking again
Saved from everywhere, kept because they actually worked.
- Items
- 6
- Cooked
- 1 of 6
Open any item for its details.
CookedTime · 20 minServes · 2Source · Kitchen notes
To cookTime · 15 minServes · 2Make ahead · No
MaybeTime · 40 minServes · 4Make ahead · Yes
MaybeTime · 50 minServes · 4Freezes · Yes
MaybeTime · 35 minServes · 4Make ahead · Slaw only
MaybeTime · 3 hServes · 8Make ahead · Overnight prove
Board photos from Unsplash, by I E, Kelsey Curtis, Álvaro Bernal, Ella Olsson, Federico Ramirez and Quin Engle.
Who it's for
Anyone who saves recipes from the internet faster than they cook them, and cannot remember which of the saved ones were good.
What people use today
Paprika is a proper recipe manager and better at ingredient scaling and shopping lists than this is. Where it leaves off is the part before cooking, when you are looking for something everybody will eat on a Tuesday and a wall of text is the wrong interface for that question.
What a board tracks here
Fields you name yourself, on the item they belong to. These are the ones that decide a purchase and have nowhere else to live.
- Time
- The single fact that decides a weeknight, and it is halfway down the page behind an essay.
- Serves
- Cooking for two from a recipe written for six is where the leftovers come from.
- Make ahead
- Whether it can be done on Sunday changes when it is useful, and nothing records it.
- Who liked it
- The only field that turns a saved recipe into a repeat one.
Reading
- You Saved Two Hundred Recipes and Cook the Same SixEveryone who saves recipes from the internet has this problem, and it is not a discipline failure. It is a recognition failure, and it has a specific fix.
- Why Recipe Sites Are the Hardest Pages to Save FromRetailers mostly let you save a product automatically. Recipe publishers mostly do not, and there is a straightforward commercial reason. Here is what actually happens and what to do about it.
- Four Things to Note About a Recipe After Cooking ItRecipe apps record what the publisher wrote. The useful information is what happened when you made it, and there is usually nowhere to put it.
Start one of your own.
Paste a link and Vurra reads the page for a title and an image. Free while Vurra is in early access.