I’m currently wondering what to do if my favourite recipes go offline or if my mom’s special traditional dish where i have the recipe in written form gets lost. Do you have a (preferably FOSS) app to store such recipes? I’m currently trying Cooky which is FOSS but is difficult to use for cooking: you can’t really group cooking steps well and when cooking a recipe you can only view one step at a time unless you’re editing the recipe. I like however that you can tag the dishes so it’s easier to find specific stuff like vegan or spicy dishes.
Not open source but figured I’d shout out paprika anyway since that’s what my partner and I use. It’s really handy for us since it syncs between our phones and we can add stuff to the grocery list from either device and it also has meal planning stuff. It’s also super easy to import recipes from websites using a built in tool they have
Paprika is great, but it kills me that there is no landscape mode. I go to prop my phone up on the popsocket, which naturally puts the phone in landscape, but Paprika stubbornly stays in portrait 😑
Dang I never noticed that! My partner has an iPad we use in the kitchen when cooking and that has a really nice landscape mode thankfully… It should exist on phones too though that’s unfortunate
I use tandoor. It’s Foss and self hostable.
For me, the killer feature is the ability to create meal plans that auto generate a shopping list
I’d use a spreadsheet app so you can adjust how many servings you want to make. Adjusting your cell size is fairly trivial and you can fit paragraphs into them if you really needed to. If you really wanted to be fancy you could use a database app, but that’s probably overkill.
That honestly sounds like a good idea. I might try that, thx 😊
I settled on recipe keeper. It supports many platforms. It’s a one time purchase (per platform) and it has the ability to import from websites.
And as I noticed recently, can pull recipes from behind a paywall - looking at you, NYT
Any particular OS? For Android I use Broccoli, and I think it does a good job out of the box. You can share the URL of a webpage with a recipe to that app, and it will try to extract the ingredients, steps, serving etc. from the website :)
On desktop i use bazzite, a fedora fork and on mobile shift OS, which is pretty much decluttered android that came with my phone. I’ll look into it, thanks for the recommendation. I still haven’t checked out any of the recommendations i got so far 😔 i blame it on adhd but I’ll try to get to it soon
I liked Mealie. Easy to self host and handles imports from paprika quite well
I host kitchenowl (https://github.com/tombursch/kitchenowl) on a cheap server on the internet for grocery lists, which my household finds to be very intuitive. It also has the ability to pull recipes from an existing url or input recipes manually. I haven’t used the recipe functionality myself, but am inclined to start given I already use the app on a regular basis anyway.
I also experimented with / liked mealie (https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/), which is more explicitly a recipe manager and has a nice interface with tagging and different ways to find/organize. Also a self-hosted type services, so it requires a little know-how to get going, but it looks like that dev is launching a hosted version (https://recipinned.com/) at some point as well.
I’ve used this for probably a decade at this point… Not FOSS, but you can use it for free or get a lifetime membership for $25. I’ve reached out to the developer a few times in the past and she was receptive and kind
