Let’s get cooking.
A friendly guide to your recipe book.
Create your first recipe
Open New Recipe. Add a title, ingredients and instructions. You can fill in the details as you go.
- 200 g pasta
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 clove garlic
Private drafts autosave after your first edit. Add timing, servings, photos, equipment and tags whenever you’re ready.
Choose who can see it
When you publish, choose the audience for your recipe. Unpublished draft edits stay private.
Recipe visibility
- Private
- Only you can view it.
- Unlisted
- Anyone with the link can view it.
- Public
- It can appear in Explore and on your public profile.
Keep track of changes
Each published update becomes a new version. Open Version history on a recipe you own to revisit it.
- v2Current
Added notes and timing.
- v1Published
The first recipe.
A few common questions
Can I edit a recipe after publishing?
Yes. Open a recipe you own and select Edit. Changes autosave to a private draft; select Publish Changes when you’re ready. Use Discard Draft to remove the unpublished revision.
Why can’t someone open my recipe or collection?
Check its visibility. Private items are owner-only. Use Unlisted for link access or Public for discovery. Sharing a collection does not make its private recipes public.
Where is my unfinished recipe?
Open Dashboard and look in Drafts. Drafts and unpublished edits remain private until you publish them.
How do Explore and Search differ?
Explore is public browsing, with title and description search and Load more. Sign in to Search for recipes, collections and cooks, with result scopes and filters. Results respect content visibility.
What if an image is still processing?
Wait for processing to finish. If an image fails, retry it or remove it before publishing.
Make yourself at home
A little more know-how
Photos, collections and the details that make a recipe yours.
First, open your recipe book
Sign in with Google or GitHub to create recipes and organize your library. After authorization, you return to your requested page or your Home page.
Just browsing? Explore public recipes without an account.
Add photos along the way
Choose or drag recipe photos into the editor. Individual steps can also carry photos. Open the image editor to crop, rotate or adjust an image before saving.
Improve a published recipe
- Open a recipe you own and select Edit.
- Make your changes. Work is autosaved privately.
- Select Publish Changes when the update is ready, or Discard Draft to remove the unpublished revision.
Publishing adds a new entry to the recipe’s version history. Open a read-only snapshot, compare versions, or follow forks in the version graph.
Cook a little more. Or less.
Open the recipe scaler on a recipe page. Choose a multiplier, target serving count or target ingredient amount.
Ingredient quantities and applicable timing change for the current view. The saved recipe stays the same.
Give your recipes a shared place
- Open Collections and select New Collection.
- Add a name, description, visibility and optional cover image. Create subcollections if another level helps.
- On a recipe, choose Add to Collection and select one or more destinations.
- Reorder recipes or child collections from the collection page.
Find your next recipe
Explore searches public recipe titles and descriptions, including recipes beyond those already loaded. Select Load more to see additional results. Community tags are labels, not filter controls.
Search requires sign-in and lets you find recipes, collections and cooks. Choose a result scope to see its filters and sorting options. Only content you can access appears.
Creator links open public profiles with the recipes and collections that person has chosen to share.
Start with someone else’s idea
Select Fork on a recipe page. Sign in if prompted. Your fork opens as a private draft, ready to edit and publish independently.
Ready to keep your first recipe?
Add a title and a few ingredients. You can fill in the details as you go.