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Recipe Jar
Just the recipe, yours to keep. Free, offline, unlimited
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Just the recipe, yours to keep. Free, offline, unlimited
18 followers
Paste a recipe link, get a clean card: ingredients and steps, nothing else. Save unlimited recipes; they live in your browser, not on a server. Cook mode with step timers. No account, no ads, works offline, open source (MIT).
How does the cook mode handle things like switching between steps when you need to set multiple timers at once for different parts of the recipe?
@nurglrtlx Each timer runs on its own, so you can have a few going at once and they keep counting while you jump between steps. Whichever one finishes beeps and buzzes, so you don't need to be sitting on that step to catch it.
Honest catch: right now you only see a timer's countdown when you're on its step, so the background ones you hear more than watch. An always-visible strip of the running timers is the obvious next thing to add. Thanks for poking at this. it's literally the part I use most while burning garlic😁😁.
@nurglrtlx Update: just shipped this. Cook mode now keeps a strip at the top with every timer running on other steps, so a few going at once for different parts of the dish don't get lost, and tapping one jumps you straight to that step. Your comment is what pushed me to build it, so thank you.
the no-server, IndexedDB-only architecture is exactly right for a tool like this, but it does mean the recipe jar lives and dies with that one browser profile. if someone clears site data, switches laptops, or their browser just corrupts the DB, is there any export (a JSON file, even) to back up the whole collection, or is copy-pasting the share link one by one currently the only way out?
@galdayan Yep, great question.
Good news: there's a one-tap backup (screenshot attached). "Back up my jar" saves your whole collection as a single JSON file, and "Restore from file" brings it all back on a new laptop or after clearing data. No copy-pasting links one by one.
It also nudges you when there are new recipes since your last backup (that orange banner), so you don't have to remember. And since it's just a file, you can keep it in Dropbox or iCloud and it basically becomes your sync. The honest part you already know: keeping the file is on you, since there's no cloud catching it.
Pasted a NYT cooking link and it stripped the life story right out, just ingredients and steps. Cook mode timers actually ran while I was chopping, which is more than I expected.
@ensarnafq "More than I expected" is honestly the nicest thing you can say about a free tool, thank you. Pulling the timers straight out of the step text was the fun part to build. Appreciate it, Ensar!
Pasted a New York Times link and it stripped out the life story before the ingredient list, which is exactly what I wanted. The cook mode timer with the keep-screen-on bit actually saved me from burning the onions last night.
@dorukkzltajeny Ha, the screen dimming mid-recipe with wet hands was my personal nemesis, so keep-screen-on was the first thing cook mode got. Glad it saved the onions. Thanks Doruk!
Pasted a New York Times cooking link and it actually stripped all the life-story preamble, just the ingredients and steps like it promised. The cook mode timer per step is such a nice touch, my hands were floury and I just hit next.
@melihlidiphxj Floury hands just hitting next is the exact moment cook mode exists for, I kept burning things scrolling back for the timing. Made my day. Thanks for cooking with it, Melih!
finally something that does one thing well. pasted a seriouseats link and got just the recipe, no life story or popups. the cook mode timers are a nice touch too.
@ervanayir "does one thing well" is the whole goal, thank you. So glad it landed :)