Manual · Add a recipe
Add a recipe to a dish
Once a book's dishes are indexed, you can capture the actual recipe — ingredients, method, photos — for any dish you'd like to cook. We extract the text so it's readable on your phone and addable to the grocery list.
1Open a dish that has no recipe yet
From a book's index, tap a dish that you want to cook. Dishes without a recipe yet show their title in italics. The recipe section on the dish page is empty, with an Add recipe card.
2Tap Add recipe
Tap the + button in the dish toolbar, or tap the Add recipe card directly. Both open the recipe-capture sheet.
3Photograph the recipe pages
Capture each page of the recipe. If the recipe spans two pages, tap Next to add another. CookCook combines the pages into a single recipe.
4Wait for the recipe to appear
We extract the ingredients, the method, the cook time, and the yield. Once it's ready (about a minute), the dish page shows the full recipe and the bag icon for adding ingredients to your grocery list.
Notes for the team — first-time UX
- The italic-title cue for "no recipe yet" on a dish row is subtle — first-time users may not notice. A small badge or empty-recipe icon would make this clearer.
- Recipes being private is a non-obvious privacy guarantee. We should reinforce it in the capture sheet (e.g. a one-line footnote) so users know they aren't sharing copyrighted content.
- Two entry points (toolbar + card) is good for discoverability, but the labels currently differ — align them so users know they're the same action.