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 !
I use ones from recipe books. I like that the recipe is in a book because
The screen doesn’t turn off when I’m cooking.
The recipe usually fits on a page, so I don’t need to touch it after I start.
I can scribble my modifications on it with a pencil.
I mark the good ones with torn up bits of paper sticking out.
I like having a bunch of recipe books around. Most of them were gifts, so cooking from them reminds me of who I got them from.
I’ve tried bookmarks to websites, copying recipes to Google Docs/Keep. It feels like work. Worse, when I’m cooking, I need a way to keep my phone/tablet screen on. I’m usually listening to a podcast or using a timer on my phone, so then I need to switch apps, etc.