I use nextcloud cookbook but I would really love another or a federated alternative. It does its job but I don’t think other people I know would use it.
KitchenOwl has been working for me though I was primarily after a good shared shopping list app. iOS app is easy for family members to use and recipes and ingredients from urls get ingested well with minimal reconfiguration - from the sites I use anyway.
Lots of people saying mealie or tandoor, so I’ll say Grocy. I don’t use it for every single food item but mainly for spices and frozen items and the recipe functionality is pretty good.
Sucks that it isn’t available in the ios app though.
Supercook for recipes with filters and based on ingredients you have on hand.
Really helpful. I tried probably 6 apps a year ago, including Paprika, and nothing came close. Voice to text for adding ingredients is awesome when you come back from the grocery store.
When looking for recipes, you can spice things up by filtering for recipes where you’re only missing one, two, or three ingredients too, which really opens things up.
This past week, it suggested some amazing dishes I hadn’t tried before. One was a tofu dish with 6 cloves of garlic with skin on, onions, red pepper flakes, lime, and super firm tofu. Delicious over basmati rice.
The other was a pecan streusel coffee cake. Didn’t even know I had ingredients to make this. Freaking delicious.
The recipes pull from across the Internet and they do a great job removing the fluff to show you just the recipe, but if their coding messes up you can always go directly to the recipe source too.
You can favorite recipes of course too.
Finally you can start a shopping list there too. So let’s say you’re browsing for some new recipes and you have that filter on for “missing 1 ingredient”. Simply add it to your shopping list along with whatever else you need. If you are diligent about updating your pantry in the app as you use up ingredients, you can also just review all food you have and use the app to keep building your shopping list for the rest of your normal supermarket trips.
It’s an all around great app and totally free without ads. I assume they sell your pantry data and grocery list data to stay afloat. Which… I really don’t care about.
Could you elaborate on “move to obsidian”? I’m already storing some recipes in my vault, but I would be interested in further features like shopping list generation and other filtering options.
I’m trying to find that out myself, just started playing with it yesterday. Right now I’ve got a personal store of recipes in CopyMeThat, and that’s got some nice features like meal planning and shopping lists but its not integrated into anything.
I’ve seen a few approaches so far, some guy on the forums has all the ingredients stored in the front matter and uses dataviewjs to display them in the note which allows for unit conversion but I think that’s too much, I still want to be able to read them without obsidian.
Right now I’ve got tags and method and ingredients in the front matter along with checklist add-on formatted tasks in the main part of the note. Eventually I want to have it pull a recipe at random and put it in my weekly note or something.
Yeah, I’d also generally prefer to use my front matter for my global tagging and sorting so I can keep my templating consistent. I’m not explicitly opposed to adding more, but in an ideal world I’d keep my front matter pretty trim.
I’ll do some experiments of my own with data view and such to see if I can get some good functionality.
Paprika. I haven’t used anything else aside from having a folder of word documents.
Paprika allows you to copy/paste the URL of a recipe and it will download only the recipe. No more scrolling through a blog and a dozen ads looking for what you want. You can then create categories and tag recipes for any combination of categories.
It also has extra functions like meal planners, pantry inventory, and shopping list generators based on the meal plan and pantry, but I don’t use those.
It syncs between devices. The only real downside is you must purchase per platform type. If you bought the windows licence and you want it on your phone you must separately purchase the Android licence.
I simply use Joplin subnotebooks. I have one for home cooking and one for brewing beer. Markdown works well enough for me in terms of portability and readability. It also syncs between my devices, so I have several copies of my recipes.
For home brewing, I have written a few scripts that convert BeerXML to Markdown for easy importing. I create the recipes in my home brewing software (currently Kleiner Brauhelfer), export the BeerXML file and convert it to Markdown for secondary storing.
I ended up creating my own because I couldn’t find something that did what I want a few years ago when I started looking. My main requirement was easy scaling of ingredients. It has a handful of features around that such as scaling by specifying servings, scaling by setting the amount of a particular ingredient (example making pancakes with leftover buttermilk, pour the buttermilk into the bowl then scale the recipe based on how much was left) and ingredient conversion. In most other ways it is pretty basic and free-form but it does the job. It stores data in a user-provided provider so other people never send me their recipes.
I’ve tried several, but I’ve had a major incident and lost all of the recipes I had because of a database corruption.
So I decided against keeping recipes in databases. I migrated to Notion, but I kept looking for a replacement since that’s not self-hosted. Eventually I ran across Silverbullet, and I’ve been using it for everything, so far it’s been great. Not exactly specifically what you asked but it can be used for it and works great.
Hahah, enjoy my upvote for speaking what all of us have thought at one time or another.
I think I’ve finally hit an ok point with backups: 3 copies of everything at home (on spinning disks), with one backup in the cloud. And I’m working on building a backup system between my brother’s house and mine.
Yep, this is how we’ve kept ours for over 20 years. Even if you don’t use the command line, most graphical file browsers will search through text files without issue.
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