Hello everyone, I’m curious about how everyone here store their recipes and organize them (and looking for ideas for me too).
At the very beginning, I started with paper recipes in a simple file organizer. Either printed or wrote by hand. But it quickly became too big, dirty, wet, and full of food stains.
I switched to following recipes on my phone when I cooked. First with a folder structure of bookmarks from my favorite websites. But it had several issues: a lot of recipes websites have crazy amount of bullsh*t writing around the recipe, and I cannot edit and adapt the recipe with my touch.
I tried a lot of android app during the years and finally converged to “whisk”, now called samsung food. I liked it because it could do meal plan and grocery list automatically on top of holding the recipes. But since it was bought, it’s getting worse and worse.
As my familly and friends know that I like to cook I received quite a lot of recipe books over the years, but I barely use them. Usually I read them once and copy the few interesting recipes i like in the app I am currently using.
I recently found that Nextcloud has a “cookbook” plugin. As I’m already self hosting a next cloud instance it’s perfect. It looks straight to the point, with all the basic features needed and no crap around. However it’s not doing meal plan and grocery list (yet ?).
As there is no automatic transfer possible between whisk and nextcloud, before I’ll spend hours to transfer my recipes I wanted to hear what other people are using !
These days, just google docs.
If I see an interesting recipe online, I’ll rewrite it without all the fluff and discussion, in a standalone document I can have up on my phone while I cook.
If it’s deemed worthy, I stick it into the master document, called ‘how to make food’ - a document I have shared with my 17yo.
Same. I copy and paste the recipe from the website and cut out any fluff.
I have a recipe folder on drive that’s further decided by meal type (dinner, breakfast, sides & snacks, desserts, etc.). The dinner folder (biggest) also has subfolders for meat types (chicken, pork, veg, etc.).
I usually have everything sorted by when I last opened it, to try and keep a fresh rotation. The recipe folder has a permanent link on our tablet that lives in the kitchen.
This works great, because I can share a recipe pretty quickly if I’m talking about it with someone. Also other family members can open the folder on the tablet and start or help with meal prep.