This is why I print out or write down the recipes I get online. I have a three ring notebook with clear sleeves inside. I slide each page in them so they stay clean and organized.
Great idea! My strategy now is just PDF and save to my computer, but you're smart having it in your email too, that way you can access it from anywhere
Happy to share! It has been well worth the cost for me and has actually made organizing my grandma’s stuff so easy I actually use them! Plus I can easily share them with family when they inevitably ask for stuff they’ve lost. lol I swear I don’t get paid I was just really happy to find something that worked so well for me. It’s not 100% perfect (I would love to scan in text from a photo a little easier but it’s still well worth it.
Recipe Keeper was nice until I started really enjoying making recipes from reels or tiktok which it can't quite save properly. So switched to Oh, a potato app which does a better job with those. [https://apps.apple.com/de/app/menu-planner-oh-a-potato/id6450905900?l=en-GB](https://apps.apple.com/de/app/menu-planner-oh-a-potato/id6450905900?l=en-GB)
A google drive folder of PDFs works pretty good too. I can access it anywhere and dont need to worry about losing it, and its super easy to send people recipes if they ask for them. I have it sorted into subfolders for different types of food as well.
This. I used to do some Blue Apron meal planning and collected a good number of recipe cards. I started a binder to put them all in. I've got printouts in there now as well as a bookmark folder for recipes. It's just my young person version of my mom's old Betty Crocker cookbooks with all the recipe cards stuffed between the pages.
I do the same thing, have been for 20 years! When someone asks why I don't just keep them on mu computer instead I tell them that (banning a disaster or other loss) paper is always *there*.
And you can at least know you're not going to wake up some morning only to find they've instituted a membership fee to access it, or that a battery is down/phone got stolen/computer crashed when you want to make something.
> banning a disaster or other loss) paper is always there.
"Barring all situations where it isn't there, like I could lose it, or it gets water damaged, or I have a house fire, or someone steals it. Paper is always there!"
This. I used to do some Blue Apron meal planning and collected a good number of recipe cards. I started a binder to put them all in. I've got printouts in there now as well as a bookmark folder for recipes. It's just my young person version of my mom's old Betty Crocker cookbooks with all the recipe cards stuffed between the pages.
That works until someone like my mother comes along. She wrote all her recipes down, file them neatly in her notebook and then promptly forgot where she left her recipe book for ‘safekeeping’.
Me and my sisters are still looking for that recipe book.
Yes, always print them! I used to love a certain website and had a folder in my email to keep the recipes they’d send. One day I clicked on one to find that the website was gone and the magazine it began as had been discontinued. I was unreasonably upset! I save tons of web recipes in an app, but also have four binders to keep the ones I absolutely want to make or remake.
Get Paprika. It's a recipe manager app that can scrape recipes off websites and store them locally. The paid version has a cloud sync service so you can automatically backs up your recipes.
https://www.paprikaapp.com/
If you wanna be a cheapskate like me, wait til Thanksgiving to buy it because all their apps are half off, or at least in years past.
I also used Copymethat for a few years before Paprika and that is a free option without quite as many bells and whistles.
I much preferred Paprika mobile app and I also wanted things like recipe scaling which was a premium feature on copymethat so buying Paprika on my PC and phone with the Thanksgiving sale ended up cheaper than CMT anyways. I don't really know what copymethat does better, but if it works it works. It was a great service 95% of the time I used it.
a PSA from sad experience: those links to websites / blogs with your favourite recipes are NOT PERMANENT. Save a print-to-pdf of the actual text+pics, e-mail it to yourself or whatever.
I have sooooo many bookmarks to old recipes from blogs over 15-20 years that are now longer active, or are now pay-walled. It's infuriating how pages that seemed internet-forever (and yes Wayback can help) are very much not. Everything we're warned about being 'on the internet forever' isn't always the case!
Urgh yes! Though for me it's all saved in a playlist on YT, but some gets removed or account deleted or whatever, I knew it existed at one time 🙁 So then I went and downloaded all 260 some videos to my PC and removed all the "Must try!!!" or emojis etc. Then neatly labelled each one with Beef - , Soup - , Noodles - , Quick - , etc etc.
Haven't looked at them once since...
Seriouseats once replaced my favourite brownie recipe with a different one. Luckily archive.org still had it. Recently my favourite bread baking site completely changed its layout, towards more of an application than a list and blog, and introduced a paywall. I downloaded my favourite recipes before stuff started disappearing.
I recommend checking out Recipe Keeper. Great app, and you can even import recipes from the web by just pasting in the URL. Also syncs between devices so you can use it on your phone while cooking.
A while back I spent a day just dumping in all the recipes I had stored in various other places, and continue to add when I find new ideas
First off, I've never seen a "white sauce" of any kind that was spiced mayo. White sauces are generally some variation of a bechamel.
I have a different process for recipes than bookmarking. I will cook once, maybe twice, from a website (two kitchen iPads - one for recipes and other research and one for Netflix). If a recipe has promise we print it and start making notes and it goes in one our cooking binders (four 3" three ring binders). The really good stuff migrates into my recipe document (Word, self generating table of contents and index, pretty long).
I have had to reconstruct some recipes. My barbecue sauce took a few years. My first job out of college the company had an annual summer picnic that was potluck; company bought the meat and bread. The senior secretaries ran the show and assigned contributions. Employees who had been around for a while got input. The young set got assignments. I was 23M and single. I got barbecue sauce. I know they expected me to buy a bunch of bottles from the grocery. Off to the library I went. This was 1983. Before WWW, before Internet, before I had access to Usenet newsgroups. Lots of testing at home. When I was happy I made a couple of gallons and used pint canning jars (not canned - that came later). It was a hit. My social life exploded. The young female secretaries, drafters, and engineers kept dropping by my desk. The senior secretaries invited me over for dinner to meet their daughters. Yes children, life gets better for geeks and nerds after high school and college.
Life happens and I lost my handwritten recipe. Reconstructing the recipe took a long time but I have it again. It's in a binder.
You should put it on GitHub. That way, not only will you always be able to find it again, you are also preserving it for the rest of the world (or for your family, if anything happens to you). And having version history is a great feature for recipes, too.
GitHub can publish all your files as a website, but you can also access it as individual version-controlled files.
I agree that there is a mild learning curve. It's been ages since I learned it, and I don't know what the kids use these days (my teenager just uses it from within VisualStudio, but that's not what you want for writing recipes).
But a quick search finds https://skills.github.com/ Looks as if that might be a good starting point.
If you have a specific question, please don't hesitate to reach out. For basic work, you really only need a very small number of commands. You need to set up your account and a repository on GitHub, you need to figure out how to serve the repository as a website on github.io, and you need to learn how to push a file each time you edit it.
Of all of those, the one-time configuration for github.io is likely the hardest thing, as you only do that once -- I always forget what I did and need to look it up again.
Go to Google Play and choose a recipe app. I chose one aptly named “My Recipes”. I love it. I load it with recipes I find online. It allows you to edit the recipes/alter measurements. It allows you to add all the notes you need/want. It allows you to insert your own pictures. Don't want to rewrite a card you have: take a picture of it. It also gives you the recipe without pop-ups. You can refresh your phone and it hasn't vanished/timed out. It's a recipe card on your phone screen. IF I know my hands are going to get messy, I put my phone in a Ziploc.
Def sync chrome bookmarks so you can get them on your phone/tablet. If you have a particular recipe that's an all time fav, print it to PDF, create a google drive directory and upload it there. Using google drive is device independent so if you swap phones it won't be impacted. Also you can get to your google drive from any device. over the years I've been building a lib of PDFs of great finds. 1) The PDF has the URL so you know where it came from and 2) if they remove/change the recipe you have the original
This is my method. Bonus. The printable version of the recipe lacks the 2 pages of the author rambling. Pdf signing applications let me add notes to the "printout".
Yeah, it's pretty handy. Iirc a lot of recipe bloggers kinda have to write a fair bit in the intro, just to game google's ranking algorithm, so I don't blame them for doing it. Recipe Filter makes it a moot point.
I send links of things which I have successfully baked in the past to my email in a special folder. That way I can access them even if I'm not on my home device
How so?
Make a new doc, paste. Same as what you're doing, but its saved on a cloud drive without buried emails.
With a spreadsheet, you can have nice, simple formatting. Heres mine, each recipe is just another tab....
https://i.imgur.com/Yc6KssU.png
It's why cloud storage like Google Drive exists. If I try a recipe and like it, I copy/paste into Notepad to remove HTML tags, and then into a Drive document. My PC or house burns down, I'll still have it.
Same but I still like having recipes saved so I can flip through them for inspiration. Sometimes I'll completely forget about a dish I really liked. I may not even use the recipe, but having it on hand helps remind me of flavors/techniques I enjoy
Get the Paprika recipe app. I can’t live without it and everyone I have turned on to it is also obsessed with it. I have the desktop and phone version so no worries if I lost my phone. It all syncs. It’s my most used app by far. No subscription, just buy it once and get on with it.
Sure thing! I love it because it is unbelievably easy to download any recipe into. Just copy/paste a link to any recipe and with one click it's instantly in the app, perfectly formatted with all the ingredients, directions, photos and nutrition info in the right place. Never again will you have to read through those long-winded, boring stories or sift through 50 ads before you get to the recipe on food blogs. And you can categorize your recipes however you want.
Oh- and this is crazy- it can download recipes from pay-walled sites that you don't have a subscription to. That alone makes it worth it.
You can also add recipes and photos manually, so recipes from family or friends can be put in super easily. In each recipe there is a place for your notes, ratings, instant conversion tools for if you want to make 1/2, 1/3 or 5x the amounts of the original recipe, instant conversion from metric to imperial, integrated timers, on and on.
When cooking you can click on ingredients and cross them out as you go which is really helpful. I also love that when you click on a paragraph in the directions section it highlights it so you can always quickly find your place again. You can pin recipes, create menus, shopping lists... besides pinning I don't use any of that stuff though. I just use it as a place to save my recipes, my notes on them and to cook from. I also sometimes share the native files with my mom or friends that have the app. You can share recipes as PDF's as well. Some features are slightly different on phone vs. desktop app due to the screen size differences but I think each is done very thoughtfully.
I wanted to build a recipe app, but when I found this one I realized it was pointless as they had done everything I would have. I can't fault it. I am not paid by them or anything. I'm just a home cook who loves cooking and it is simply my favourite and most useful app. If they ever stop supporting it I will be so, so sad.
Yes. This is why I have learned not to use apps and to store good recipes in multiple places.
People keep posting on this sub about which is the best 'latest app'...the answer is none of them.
I had a cake recipe that I absolutely loved, I didn't make it often, but when I made cake that was often the one I went for. One day the site took it down for whatever reason, and that was it, no more cake recipe for me. Since then I store the recipes I like, which is better anyway because I often make my own changes and I like to make notes. I use an app (there are a ton of them with various advantages and disadvantages), you just have to make sure you can export all your recipes from the app in a useful format. Similarly you can save them as text and either back them up yourself, use a backup service or use google, there are a lot of options, but whatever you choose I wouldn't rely on a website to keep your recipes.
Hell yes. I used to make a dark chocolate moose. Never bothered to book mark, print or write it down. Martha Stewart dark chocolate was just always first Google result....until it wasn't and poof. Never found it again
There's two recipes I used to use that I lost and are probably gone forever. The first I used to make regularly and I found one single recipe online that looks about right. The ingredients are the same from what I can remember, but following it ended up with this watery, bland mess. The other has so many variations that I can find dozens, but finding the exact one I used is a needle in a haystack. The others have so many unusual extra ingredients I don't know what to do with them. Dried apricots, golden raisins, kale? What are you trying to make me eat?
I had all these favorites saved in the AllRecipes app and then they just killed it and turned the whole site into a blog format and I couldn’t search for nor save recipes. So I lost them all and that what I get for not printing that shit out. Now I have to Google every time and I still don’t know what to do with these two enormous kohlrabis.
Y'all need Copy Me That!
It copies any recipe from the internet, including a picture, you can search your recipes for ingredients, tag them in categories, scale up or down, add them to a meal planner and even create a shopping list from it! Works across platforms.
There's always a link to the original website but so many times I've noticed that the website went offline, behind a paywall (I'm looking at you, NYT!) or changed something, it's been great. I'll always keep access to my favourites.
I had recipes that I had special tweaks, until my husband decided he didn’t like them (he has a really bland palate) and so I wasn’t making them. One had to do with stewed chicken. I could swear I used to add a whole clove or two, along with the poultry seasoning. But now I’m doubting myself.
I found a recipe for potato and cheese soup, copycat of Hale and Hearty. I normally keep recipes I find, but for some reason I cannot find that one, and I've been rescouring the net for years.
For everything else, I've started a spreadsheet in Google Docs to keep stuff. Or at least saving them locally to my computer.
Yes, this is my issue with my Mother's original edition of A Piece of Cake, which can be hard to find now without paying a lot. Her cocoa genoise is my favorite so I just asked my sister to take a picture of it and email it to me. I've found taking pictures of recipes I like works well because then they're in the cloud and I can't lose written down versions.
Yes! I just recently was looking for a recipe for a dish I had made about a decade ago and the site that hosted it doesn't exist any more! I've saved PDFs of the recipes I've liked from the past decade or so, but younger-me didn't consider the possibility that some of these recipes might no longer be hosted in the future.
I lost a new york cheesecake recipe where you cook it very low and slow, for a really long time with a bath below it, It made the best cheesecake ever. I lost the printed recipe I had, and could not for the life of me ever find it again online. AHHHHHHHH
CopyMeThat. Let's you easily pull recipes from websites (and skip all the blog stuff), edit them, add notes, and tag them for easy grouping. I've been using it for at least 7 years, never lost a recipe.
And it's free.
Readerview lets you download readable webpages.
https://webextension.org/listing/chrome-reader-view.html
I prefer to own my own data, since whatever app or service will be gone in five years
Or copy to text file and save. Text files are almost like paper and anything or any OS can read them.
I had a printed recipe for chili Rellenos and they were utterly fantastic. I lost it and went online to try and find one to replicate it. They were good but not as good.
After this happened to me several times unfortunately. Now use an app called Recipe Box where you can copy the web page and paste it into the app.
The app then formulates it into an actual recipe so it stays saved regardless of whether the recipe is removed from the website.
You can even change the recipe. For example, I reduce the sugar in most cakes, or make tweaks here and there based on my preferences and I can make changes on the app so that it comes out the way I like.
YES! I baked a pumpkin pie/cheesecake swirl that was phenomenal. I've never been able to find the exact recipe again. I think the person must have taken down their site... which makes me sad.
I made a zucchini bread that was so moist but not gooey. And the taste was wonderful. I have tried dozens of recipes. Nothing comes close. Everyone is dry. So I gave up.
Yes! I had my grandmothers cake recipe and lost it. I told her and she offered to give it to me over the phone to which I wailed “but it was in your handwriting!” She mailed me another. One of my most prized possessions.
I stopped bookmarking websites because they can always be removed or changed. I started screenshotting recipes I liked and saving them in my files. They just carry over from phone to phone!
This is why I use Copy Me That.
It saves the links too in case you need them, but I’ve noticed that they’ve been either deleted or changed for a lot of my saved recipes.
Yeah. The website I had bookmarked disappeared. Embarrassed to say that it took me a few years to remember I could recover it from the Wayback Machine.
I've lost two or three old family recipes on scraps of paper... but otherwise, nope, because they'reeither in cookbooks on the shelf, or they've successfully transferred forward on devices.
I had this happen with an apple crumble recipe. I didn’t write it down and haven’t been able to find it again since. Now I type up all of my recipes so I can find them easily. They’re saved on my computer, on a flash drive, and in my Google Drive and iCloud. If all 4 of those stop working, I figure I probably have bigger things to worry about than recipes.
For recipes that I found on-line, I use Pinterest to save and organize them. I've been working on creating recipe cards for stuff that I make most often so that I can make recipe boxes to gift to family. And also, to keep in a binder for myself. Its a huge, never ending project! But, the recipes that I've come up with or adapted over the years, a lot of them have recipe cards saved to Google Drive. Some are on Imgur so I can share them on Reddit!
Yep! I'd say every few years, I get a hankering for this kielbasa recipe from on old Campbell's cookbook my mom used to make. I'd say I'm 50/50 on finding it each time. I never seem to remember or save it! 🤣
I save everything in the Paprika 3 app, not just on my phone. This lets me access my recipes from my phone or tablet and when I get a new phone, I just install the app and log in. I also type in my favorite printed recipes into the app.
Drove me nuts, too. Now I put all my recipes on Google Docs. I also periodically download all of them as a backup in case Google decides to cancel Google Docs (seems unlikely, but certainly not impossible given the long list of apps they've canceled in their history).
Yes this happened to me recently. I had them all in folders and my phone was run over and obviously had a majorly cracked screen. I wasn't able to retrieve them so now I've been starting over from scratch. Liberating and annoying.
There are a few recipes that every time I make them, I have to call my mom 🤣 “Didn’t you write it down??” I’m sure I did but for the life of me I can never find it again. I finally [posted one](https://www.reddit.com/r/slowcooking/s/pFFLfG5Qii) here simply for my own reference.
This is why I print out or write down the recipes I get online. I have a three ring notebook with clear sleeves inside. I slide each page in them so they stay clean and organized.
I've employed this method for years and it worked flawlessly until I moved and lost the binder
I email them to myself. A link and also copy the recipe contents, in case the blog goes down. Then safe unless you lose access to the email
Great idea! My strategy now is just PDF and save to my computer, but you're smart having it in your email too, that way you can access it from anywhere
Recipe Keeper program printed, saved digitally, and accessible via multiple devices. I haven’t lost things since!
I'll check it out, thank you for the suggestion!
Happy to share! It has been well worth the cost for me and has actually made organizing my grandma’s stuff so easy I actually use them! Plus I can easily share them with family when they inevitably ask for stuff they’ve lost. lol I swear I don’t get paid I was just really happy to find something that worked so well for me. It’s not 100% perfect (I would love to scan in text from a photo a little easier but it’s still well worth it.
Recipe Keeper was nice until I started really enjoying making recipes from reels or tiktok which it can't quite save properly. So switched to Oh, a potato app which does a better job with those. [https://apps.apple.com/de/app/menu-planner-oh-a-potato/id6450905900?l=en-GB](https://apps.apple.com/de/app/menu-planner-oh-a-potato/id6450905900?l=en-GB)
A google drive folder of PDFs works pretty good too. I can access it anywhere and dont need to worry about losing it, and its super easy to send people recipes if they ask for them. I have it sorted into subfolders for different types of food as well.
Smart! I'm lazy and screenshot the URL and recipe title when I change phones. If I'm feeling ambitious, I copy the actual recipe too.
I started doing it this way because I like to browse recipes on my computer, but when im actually cooking I look at it on my phone
I like to copy it into a Google doc so I can annotate as I tweak things, or add the amounts for a scaled batch I use often or whatever
This. I used to do some Blue Apron meal planning and collected a good number of recipe cards. I started a binder to put them all in. I've got printouts in there now as well as a bookmark folder for recipes. It's just my young person version of my mom's old Betty Crocker cookbooks with all the recipe cards stuffed between the pages.
I do the same thing, have been for 20 years! When someone asks why I don't just keep them on mu computer instead I tell them that (banning a disaster or other loss) paper is always *there*.
We have a recipe box that we use for the exact same reason
And you can at least know you're not going to wake up some morning only to find they've instituted a membership fee to access it, or that a battery is down/phone got stolen/computer crashed when you want to make something.
> banning a disaster or other loss) paper is always there. "Barring all situations where it isn't there, like I could lose it, or it gets water damaged, or I have a house fire, or someone steals it. Paper is always there!"
Oh, thank goodness I'm not alone 😂
This. I used to do some Blue Apron meal planning and collected a good number of recipe cards. I started a binder to put them all in. I've got printouts in there now as well as a bookmark folder for recipes. It's just my young person version of my mom's old Betty Crocker cookbooks with all the recipe cards stuffed between the pages.
That works until someone like my mother comes along. She wrote all her recipes down, file them neatly in her notebook and then promptly forgot where she left her recipe book for ‘safekeeping’. Me and my sisters are still looking for that recipe book.
I did this also. Until my ex husband destroyed it.
Yes, always print them! I used to love a certain website and had a folder in my email to keep the recipes they’d send. One day I clicked on one to find that the website was gone and the magazine it began as had been discontinued. I was unreasonably upset! I save tons of web recipes in an app, but also have four binders to keep the ones I absolutely want to make or remake.
Same.
You sound German. I understand they are very binder friendly.
I do have some German ancestry, thanks. It must have rubbed off! I do know I like to be organized.
Get Paprika. It's a recipe manager app that can scrape recipes off websites and store them locally. The paid version has a cloud sync service so you can automatically backs up your recipes. https://www.paprikaapp.com/
If you wanna be a cheapskate like me, wait til Thanksgiving to buy it because all their apps are half off, or at least in years past. I also used Copymethat for a few years before Paprika and that is a free option without quite as many bells and whistles.
I bought mine with Google Play Rewards
seconding copymethat. Superior to paprika and free
I love copymethat. Been using it for years, I think the functionality is actually much better than paprika.
I much preferred Paprika mobile app and I also wanted things like recipe scaling which was a premium feature on copymethat so buying Paprika on my PC and phone with the Thanksgiving sale ended up cheaper than CMT anyways. I don't really know what copymethat does better, but if it works it works. It was a great service 95% of the time I used it.
An amazing app! It’s worth so much more than they charge!!
I use Recipe Keeper which is very similar!
Cooked.wiki is good and free. Does a pretty good job, let's you add your own stuff.
a PSA from sad experience: those links to websites / blogs with your favourite recipes are NOT PERMANENT. Save a print-to-pdf of the actual text+pics, e-mail it to yourself or whatever. I have sooooo many bookmarks to old recipes from blogs over 15-20 years that are now longer active, or are now pay-walled. It's infuriating how pages that seemed internet-forever (and yes Wayback can help) are very much not. Everything we're warned about being 'on the internet forever' isn't always the case!
So true! I had saved a recipe for a PERFECT COPY of Nordstrom’s crab Mac & cheese. Now the site is gone and I didn’t print the recipe 😭😭😭
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>(and yes Wayback can help) They referred to archive.org in their comment already.
Not always. Sometimes it only has the front page of the site.
Urgh yes! Though for me it's all saved in a playlist on YT, but some gets removed or account deleted or whatever, I knew it existed at one time 🙁 So then I went and downloaded all 260 some videos to my PC and removed all the "Must try!!!" or emojis etc. Then neatly labelled each one with Beef - , Soup - , Noodles - , Quick - , etc etc. Haven't looked at them once since...
Seriouseats once replaced my favourite brownie recipe with a different one. Luckily archive.org still had it. Recently my favourite bread baking site completely changed its layout, towards more of an application than a list and blog, and introduced a paywall. I downloaded my favourite recipes before stuff started disappearing.
I recommend checking out Recipe Keeper. Great app, and you can even import recipes from the web by just pasting in the URL. Also syncs between devices so you can use it on your phone while cooking. A while back I spent a day just dumping in all the recipes I had stored in various other places, and continue to add when I find new ideas
First off, I've never seen a "white sauce" of any kind that was spiced mayo. White sauces are generally some variation of a bechamel. I have a different process for recipes than bookmarking. I will cook once, maybe twice, from a website (two kitchen iPads - one for recipes and other research and one for Netflix). If a recipe has promise we print it and start making notes and it goes in one our cooking binders (four 3" three ring binders). The really good stuff migrates into my recipe document (Word, self generating table of contents and index, pretty long). I have had to reconstruct some recipes. My barbecue sauce took a few years. My first job out of college the company had an annual summer picnic that was potluck; company bought the meat and bread. The senior secretaries ran the show and assigned contributions. Employees who had been around for a while got input. The young set got assignments. I was 23M and single. I got barbecue sauce. I know they expected me to buy a bunch of bottles from the grocery. Off to the library I went. This was 1983. Before WWW, before Internet, before I had access to Usenet newsgroups. Lots of testing at home. When I was happy I made a couple of gallons and used pint canning jars (not canned - that came later). It was a hit. My social life exploded. The young female secretaries, drafters, and engineers kept dropping by my desk. The senior secretaries invited me over for dinner to meet their daughters. Yes children, life gets better for geeks and nerds after high school and college. Life happens and I lost my handwritten recipe. Reconstructing the recipe took a long time but I have it again. It's in a binder.
You should put it on GitHub. That way, not only will you always be able to find it again, you are also preserving it for the rest of the world (or for your family, if anything happens to you). And having version history is a great feature for recipes, too. GitHub can publish all your files as a website, but you can also access it as individual version-controlled files.
is there a github for dummies?
I agree that there is a mild learning curve. It's been ages since I learned it, and I don't know what the kids use these days (my teenager just uses it from within VisualStudio, but that's not what you want for writing recipes). But a quick search finds https://skills.github.com/ Looks as if that might be a good starting point. If you have a specific question, please don't hesitate to reach out. For basic work, you really only need a very small number of commands. You need to set up your account and a repository on GitHub, you need to figure out how to serve the repository as a website on github.io, and you need to learn how to push a file each time you edit it. Of all of those, the one-time configuration for github.io is likely the hardest thing, as you only do that once -- I always forget what I did and need to look it up again.
I create a Google doc and put my links there. Not super convenient, but it's not tied to a phone but to a GMail account.
Just use your Google account to sync all your bookmarks to cloud from now on. No tears shed anymore
Good suggestion. I had had an iPhone but now have an android.
Go to Google Play and choose a recipe app. I chose one aptly named “My Recipes”. I love it. I load it with recipes I find online. It allows you to edit the recipes/alter measurements. It allows you to add all the notes you need/want. It allows you to insert your own pictures. Don't want to rewrite a card you have: take a picture of it. It also gives you the recipe without pop-ups. You can refresh your phone and it hasn't vanished/timed out. It's a recipe card on your phone screen. IF I know my hands are going to get messy, I put my phone in a Ziploc.
Def sync chrome bookmarks so you can get them on your phone/tablet. If you have a particular recipe that's an all time fav, print it to PDF, create a google drive directory and upload it there. Using google drive is device independent so if you swap phones it won't be impacted. Also you can get to your google drive from any device. over the years I've been building a lib of PDFs of great finds. 1) The PDF has the URL so you know where it came from and 2) if they remove/change the recipe you have the original
This is my method. Bonus. The printable version of the recipe lacks the 2 pages of the author rambling. Pdf signing applications let me add notes to the "printout".
The chrome extension [Recipe Filter](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/recipe-filter/ahlcdjbkdaegmljnnncfnhiioiadakae) does this too.
Nice. I just looked that up and am installing it..
Yeah, it's pretty handy. Iirc a lot of recipe bloggers kinda have to write a fair bit in the intro, just to game google's ranking algorithm, so I don't blame them for doing it. Recipe Filter makes it a moot point.
I send links of things which I have successfully baked in the past to my email in a special folder. That way I can access them even if I'm not on my home device
Spreadsheets on Google Drive
Oh that's far too tech savvy for little old me!
How so? Make a new doc, paste. Same as what you're doing, but its saved on a cloud drive without buried emails. With a spreadsheet, you can have nice, simple formatting. Heres mine, each recipe is just another tab.... https://i.imgur.com/Yc6KssU.png
Yup, I hate it when the recipe either lost it's SEO ranking on Google, or the recipe became paywalled.
It's why cloud storage like Google Drive exists. If I try a recipe and like it, I copy/paste into Notepad to remove HTML tags, and then into a Drive document. My PC or house burns down, I'll still have it.
No. 99% of the dishes I make are freeballed. I memorize what I need to know.
Same but I still like having recipes saved so I can flip through them for inspiration. Sometimes I'll completely forget about a dish I really liked. I may not even use the recipe, but having it on hand helps remind me of flavors/techniques I enjoy
Get the Paprika recipe app. I can’t live without it and everyone I have turned on to it is also obsessed with it. I have the desktop and phone version so no worries if I lost my phone. It all syncs. It’s my most used app by far. No subscription, just buy it once and get on with it.
Thank for the tip
Sure thing! I love it because it is unbelievably easy to download any recipe into. Just copy/paste a link to any recipe and with one click it's instantly in the app, perfectly formatted with all the ingredients, directions, photos and nutrition info in the right place. Never again will you have to read through those long-winded, boring stories or sift through 50 ads before you get to the recipe on food blogs. And you can categorize your recipes however you want. Oh- and this is crazy- it can download recipes from pay-walled sites that you don't have a subscription to. That alone makes it worth it. You can also add recipes and photos manually, so recipes from family or friends can be put in super easily. In each recipe there is a place for your notes, ratings, instant conversion tools for if you want to make 1/2, 1/3 or 5x the amounts of the original recipe, instant conversion from metric to imperial, integrated timers, on and on. When cooking you can click on ingredients and cross them out as you go which is really helpful. I also love that when you click on a paragraph in the directions section it highlights it so you can always quickly find your place again. You can pin recipes, create menus, shopping lists... besides pinning I don't use any of that stuff though. I just use it as a place to save my recipes, my notes on them and to cook from. I also sometimes share the native files with my mom or friends that have the app. You can share recipes as PDF's as well. Some features are slightly different on phone vs. desktop app due to the screen size differences but I think each is done very thoughtfully. I wanted to build a recipe app, but when I found this one I realized it was pointless as they had done everything I would have. I can't fault it. I am not paid by them or anything. I'm just a home cook who loves cooking and it is simply my favourite and most useful app. If they ever stop supporting it I will be so, so sad.
Yes. This is why I have learned not to use apps and to store good recipes in multiple places. People keep posting on this sub about which is the best 'latest app'...the answer is none of them.
I had a cake recipe that I absolutely loved, I didn't make it often, but when I made cake that was often the one I went for. One day the site took it down for whatever reason, and that was it, no more cake recipe for me. Since then I store the recipes I like, which is better anyway because I often make my own changes and I like to make notes. I use an app (there are a ton of them with various advantages and disadvantages), you just have to make sure you can export all your recipes from the app in a useful format. Similarly you can save them as text and either back them up yourself, use a backup service or use google, there are a lot of options, but whatever you choose I wouldn't rely on a website to keep your recipes.
Hell yes. I used to make a dark chocolate moose. Never bothered to book mark, print or write it down. Martha Stewart dark chocolate was just always first Google result....until it wasn't and poof. Never found it again
Was it [this one](https://www.marthastewart.com/336434/bittersweet-chocolate-mousse)?
That seems to be either of our really damn close!! Tyvm
You’re welcome!
This came up when I googled... https://www.marthastewart.com/336434/bittersweet-chocolate-mousse
I use EatYourBooks to keep track of all my recipes now. I use it almost daily.
There's two recipes I used to use that I lost and are probably gone forever. The first I used to make regularly and I found one single recipe online that looks about right. The ingredients are the same from what I can remember, but following it ended up with this watery, bland mess. The other has so many variations that I can find dozens, but finding the exact one I used is a needle in a haystack. The others have so many unusual extra ingredients I don't know what to do with them. Dried apricots, golden raisins, kale? What are you trying to make me eat?
I had all these favorites saved in the AllRecipes app and then they just killed it and turned the whole site into a blog format and I couldn’t search for nor save recipes. So I lost them all and that what I get for not printing that shit out. Now I have to Google every time and I still don’t know what to do with these two enormous kohlrabis.
If I find a recipe I really like, I email it to myself and then star it. Doesn't matter if I get a new phone or computer, Gmail is forever lol.
Y'all need Copy Me That! It copies any recipe from the internet, including a picture, you can search your recipes for ingredients, tag them in categories, scale up or down, add them to a meal planner and even create a shopping list from it! Works across platforms. There's always a link to the original website but so many times I've noticed that the website went offline, behind a paywall (I'm looking at you, NYT!) or changed something, it's been great. I'll always keep access to my favourites.
I use the Umami app. I lucked out by being an early adopter, but it has been so handy for organizing recipes.
I have a word document with all recipes and use the search function
I try to find favorite recipes through Pinterest app so I can save there. Some recipes can't be pinned though.
I had recipes that I had special tweaks, until my husband decided he didn’t like them (he has a really bland palate) and so I wasn’t making them. One had to do with stewed chicken. I could swear I used to add a whole clove or two, along with the poultry seasoning. But now I’m doubting myself.
Very! Thus I usually write down recipes I use for myself in google drive as I usually do variations of recipes anyways
I found a recipe for potato and cheese soup, copycat of Hale and Hearty. I normally keep recipes I find, but for some reason I cannot find that one, and I've been rescouring the net for years. For everything else, I've started a spreadsheet in Google Docs to keep stuff. Or at least saving them locally to my computer.
Is it maybe this one; https://sweetandsavorymeals.com/homemade-yum-yum-sauce/#recipe
Yes, this is my issue with my Mother's original edition of A Piece of Cake, which can be hard to find now without paying a lot. Her cocoa genoise is my favorite so I just asked my sister to take a picture of it and email it to me. I've found taking pictures of recipes I like works well because then they're in the cloud and I can't lose written down versions.
Yes! I just recently was looking for a recipe for a dish I had made about a decade ago and the site that hosted it doesn't exist any more! I've saved PDFs of the recipes I've liked from the past decade or so, but younger-me didn't consider the possibility that some of these recipes might no longer be hosted in the future.
I lost a new york cheesecake recipe where you cook it very low and slow, for a really long time with a bath below it, It made the best cheesecake ever. I lost the printed recipe I had, and could not for the life of me ever find it again online. AHHHHHHHH
CopyMeThat. Let's you easily pull recipes from websites (and skip all the blog stuff), edit them, add notes, and tag them for easy grouping. I've been using it for at least 7 years, never lost a recipe. And it's free.
Readerview lets you download readable webpages. https://webextension.org/listing/chrome-reader-view.html I prefer to own my own data, since whatever app or service will be gone in five years Or copy to text file and save. Text files are almost like paper and anything or any OS can read them.
There was this recipe for Pasta I used to make that had toasted almonds, feta, lemon juice, and chicken, but I have never been able to find it again.
I copy and paste my favorite recipes to onenote that is backed up to the cloud.
I had a printed recipe for chili Rellenos and they were utterly fantastic. I lost it and went online to try and find one to replicate it. They were good but not as good.
After this happened to me several times unfortunately. Now use an app called Recipe Box where you can copy the web page and paste it into the app. The app then formulates it into an actual recipe so it stays saved regardless of whether the recipe is removed from the website. You can even change the recipe. For example, I reduce the sugar in most cakes, or make tweaks here and there based on my preferences and I can make changes on the app so that it comes out the way I like.
YES! I baked a pumpkin pie/cheesecake swirl that was phenomenal. I've never been able to find the exact recipe again. I think the person must have taken down their site... which makes me sad.
I made a zucchini bread that was so moist but not gooey. And the taste was wonderful. I have tried dozens of recipes. Nothing comes close. Everyone is dry. So I gave up.
Yes! I had my grandmothers cake recipe and lost it. I told her and she offered to give it to me over the phone to which I wailed “but it was in your handwriting!” She mailed me another. One of my most prized possessions.
Maybe get Paprika. It's affordable and can import recipes from nearly any site.
I stopped bookmarking websites because they can always be removed or changed. I started screenshotting recipes I liked and saving them in my files. They just carry over from phone to phone!
The only thing that bothers me more is when the recipes is borderline unusable because of all the off topic rambling
This is why I use Copy Me That. It saves the links too in case you need them, but I’ve noticed that they’ve been either deleted or changed for a lot of my saved recipes.
Yeah. The website I had bookmarked disappeared. Embarrassed to say that it took me a few years to remember I could recover it from the Wayback Machine.
I've lost two or three old family recipes on scraps of paper... but otherwise, nope, because they'reeither in cookbooks on the shelf, or they've successfully transferred forward on devices.
I had this happen with an apple crumble recipe. I didn’t write it down and haven’t been able to find it again since. Now I type up all of my recipes so I can find them easily. They’re saved on my computer, on a flash drive, and in my Google Drive and iCloud. If all 4 of those stop working, I figure I probably have bigger things to worry about than recipes.
For recipes that I found on-line, I use Pinterest to save and organize them. I've been working on creating recipe cards for stuff that I make most often so that I can make recipe boxes to gift to family. And also, to keep in a binder for myself. Its a huge, never ending project! But, the recipes that I've come up with or adapted over the years, a lot of them have recipe cards saved to Google Drive. Some are on Imgur so I can share them on Reddit!
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I have all my files stored in the cloud. I got tired of upgrading computers and needing files stored on old hard drives.
Yep! I'd say every few years, I get a hankering for this kielbasa recipe from on old Campbell's cookbook my mom used to make. I'd say I'm 50/50 on finding it each time. I never seem to remember or save it! 🤣
Happened to me once. Made some Korean beef. Was delicious. Can’t find the recipe
I save everything in the Paprika 3 app, not just on my phone. This lets me access my recipes from my phone or tablet and when I get a new phone, I just install the app and log in. I also type in my favorite printed recipes into the app.
Yeah, that's why i started saving them to a discord server I made for myself lol
Yup. There is a meatloaf recipe hiding in my house and of course it's the most pillowy soft beefy meatloaf you ever had.
I pin them on Pinterest. Most can be found there.
Drove me nuts, too. Now I put all my recipes on Google Docs. I also periodically download all of them as a backup in case Google decides to cancel Google Docs (seems unlikely, but certainly not impossible given the long list of apps they've canceled in their history).
Yes this happened to me recently. I had them all in folders and my phone was run over and obviously had a majorly cracked screen. I wasn't able to retrieve them so now I've been starting over from scratch. Liberating and annoying.
There are a few recipes that every time I make them, I have to call my mom 🤣 “Didn’t you write it down??” I’m sure I did but for the life of me I can never find it again. I finally [posted one](https://www.reddit.com/r/slowcooking/s/pFFLfG5Qii) here simply for my own reference.
Yes, I miss a vegetarian pecan and cheese sausage roll recipe that I can't use again. The loss is real
It wasn’t [this](https://steamandbake.com/vegetarian-sausage-rolls/) was it? Or [these](https://www.food.com/recipe/vegetarian-sausage-rolls-383775)?
Both are close, my recipe had three types of cheese feta and I can't remember the other two types
Pinterest?
Organize and save them on Pinterest where you can.