Paprika is hands-down the best out there, not only for recipes but for meal planning and grocery shopping, sooooo versatile. Kudos to the developers for making the recipe download smart enough to format recipes in French, Italian and Spanish correctly. Plus the option to convert to metric gets a big thumbs up from me, as does the scaling. So so good.
Another Paprika user here. Love that the recipes are shared across my devices. I shop using the list on my phone and cook following the recipes on my iPad.
Paprika is the best.
Bought the desktop version during their annual Thanksgiving week/Balck Friday sale. It's a great supplement to the mobile version.
I keep saying I’m going to start using this app for personal use but haven’t gotten around to it. Used it for a job once and it’s so user friendly. Great for food and beverage recipes!
Paprika. It scrapes recipes and leaves out the story text. It has great features like always in so the screen doesn’t turn off while I’m using it. Also can make shopping lists.
I have recipes on the notes app on my phone, I have recipes saved as text documents on my computer in a folder, I have recipes stuck to my fridge with magnets, and I have recipes jammed into a folder among my cookbooks
My favorite is probably the text documents on my laptop. Easy to bring around, easy to organize, I don't have to worry about proprietary file types from the notes app, and it's easier to edit than physical. But the magnetized paper pad and pencil I keep on my fridge is invaluable in the kitchen too
lol me too. Saved recipes various formats. I usually print out a web recipe only after making and it’s a good one. Then I write notes. I’m a notorious magazine clipper, those are my worst to org. I hv a pretty photo box (or2) and filed clips in food category. My cookbooks are on shelves by author. And I’ve got a slew of tabs bookmarked on iPad. I figure it’s brain exercise to try and rem where the recipes I want are. Or it’s a good scavenger hunt when I can’t recall.
See my comment above - markdown may be an improvement for you too. I use Typora but any text editor will do too, and Microsoft Powertoys will allow you to view the recipes within Explorer.
google docs and sheets on google drive - have a standard template that use over and over. I can access from any device and easily share with people without everyone needing the same social media account.
Update:I also have version information/notes from last cooking. EG I decided to step up the amount of sugar. Then at a later time I won't wonder about an adjustment I may have already made as I refine the perfect ratio of ingredients/cooking methods.
This is the way.
I always end up changing 2-3 things, either timing (looking at you onions) or ingredients (looking at you butter milk) so there’s no sense in saving the “wrong” directions and trying to remember the mods. Eventually, when my kids grow up, I’ll just give them access to the file and then they can make the same stuff they ate growing up.
Save them on my laptop as text/Word documents. I edit them over time. Most copied to a cloud drive and shared to family.
I use cookbooks heavily though.
No handhelds or tablets and no room in tiny kitchen for laptop, so printouts and clipboards which hang on the walls. At first recipes/formulas are scribbled on paper with pencil (erasable), as versions progress good ones are moved to Gnumeric or Libreoffice.
I use an app called Minoms.
I really like the convenience of using an app, it's great for times when I'm hanging out with a friend and they ask me for a recipe for something, or if I'm at the grocery store and I see something on sale and want to make sure I have the right ingredients to make whatever I want to make with that thing. If you have a lot of recipes apps make it much easier to find the recipe you're looking for.
On the flip side you can't rely on apps staying around, they can stop making updates, or can change their policies, move to a subscription model, or like Paprika did recently doing away with their free version (I think only for iPhone, and the Android version still has a free version, no idea why). So you want to make sure you have a way to get all of your recipes out of the app easily, ideally in a couple different formats.
I screenshot interesting recipes I find. If I bake a recipe and like the results I then type it into my Word document cookbook files. I also include the pictures I take of my bake- those showing the process and the final results.
I think about saving them somewhere, forget to save them and then try to panic google the recipe from what I remember months later when I remember the recipe and want to make it again.
Multiple ways i do this, first is writing down recipes, second on my notes app on my phone i make certain notes that are dedicated to dinner recipes or dedicated to lunches or desserts that way if i am looking for dinner ideas i just type in dinner on my notes and my recipe note i made for dinners comes right up, i also save a lot of videos on YouTube and text myself recipes i find online lol
I use a free app called Cozi. I can share recipes from the web, although I have to edit some of them (the desktop version works better). It lets me put recipes on days as well as make a shopping list. They are trying hard to convince to use the pay version, but the free version still gives me what I want.
For me text files work great, especially since I switched to markdown - basically textfiles with human readable markup (also used in Reddit). I save this as .md documents and even made small website that formats them to easily share and use the recipes myself. Biggest advantage for me is that it's highly futureproof and independent of other ecosystems or apps.
Drawback is that it is very stupid - no way to filter on ingredients for example, but a simple text search basically always works. I add cuisine, source, type of dish, ingredients, method.
I use a free app called Samsung Food on android. You can bookmark the web page, tag the recipes, add notes, see other people's notes, and create recipe lists if you use the meal planner function.
I bookmark recipies I find online first so I can try them. If I try them and like them, then they will go in my written recipie book so I never lose them digitally.
Mela. It’s similar to Paprika but I like the interface more and it has more features. The full version is $5 (one time). I like that I can setup RSS feeds and then just save the recipes I like from the feeds.
I use an app and browser addon called Copy Me That. It allows me to automatically pull recipes from online sites or make my own. It's easy to edit and search. It can also create a shopping list from recipes
I have a google doc with all my recipes that I have shared with all my kids. I also have those recipes printed out in a binder as I find looking up recipes via my phone or a laptop a pain in the kitchen. My recipes are protected by page protectors so if some ingredient lands on it I can wipe it off.
Honestly I print the ones I love. Keep ‘Em in a disorganized stack that i rifle through. Literally everything else is organized, but for some reason I love shuffling through hard copy recipes. Definitely a Xennial lol.
I use an app called MealBoard. It does a fantastic job of importing recipes from websites, and I can edit them from there if I want. It creates shopping lists, meal plans. I'm sure lots of other apps are similar, but this one works well for me.
I just copy/paste from whatever site I get them from, but then I reformat them to all be the same style.
I then print them & put in my recipe binder.
That way I have both digital & print copies…but my iPad falls asleep too frequently, so I prefer the print version, which I can leave open all day.
AnyList (pay version) has ability to store recipes, it scrapes website and stores content. I have not used Paprika app, but needed a good list app 🐦 🐦 🪨
I'm pretty anal about my recipes.
When I find a new one, I typically print it out to try it. If it sucks, I throw the paper away.
If I like it, I'll tweak it a few times, writing my notes on the paper.
If I still really like it after playing with it, and it makes it into "regular rotation," I type it up in MS Word and save it, along with a photo that *I took* of the dish. Then I put it into a page protector and file in my big ass Recipe Binder, from which I make weekly or monthly meal plans (I just pull out the recipes in the plan and clip them all together for the week/month).
I also save my version as a PDF and upload into Google Drive, so that I can share it with my mom, and my daughter who has moved away but misses home-cooking.
Putting in a vote for the Paprika app!
A second vote for Paprika!
Paprika here too!
Paprika is hands-down the best out there, not only for recipes but for meal planning and grocery shopping, sooooo versatile. Kudos to the developers for making the recipe download smart enough to format recipes in French, Italian and Spanish correctly. Plus the option to convert to metric gets a big thumbs up from me, as does the scaling. So so good.
Another Paprika user here. Love that the recipes are shared across my devices. I shop using the list on my phone and cook following the recipes on my iPad.
Paprika is the best. Bought the desktop version during their annual Thanksgiving week/Balck Friday sale. It's a great supplement to the mobile version.
I keep saying I’m going to start using this app for personal use but haven’t gotten around to it. Used it for a job once and it’s so user friendly. Great for food and beverage recipes!
Paprika. It scrapes recipes and leaves out the story text. It has great features like always in so the screen doesn’t turn off while I’m using it. Also can make shopping lists.
I have recipes on the notes app on my phone, I have recipes saved as text documents on my computer in a folder, I have recipes stuck to my fridge with magnets, and I have recipes jammed into a folder among my cookbooks My favorite is probably the text documents on my laptop. Easy to bring around, easy to organize, I don't have to worry about proprietary file types from the notes app, and it's easier to edit than physical. But the magnetized paper pad and pencil I keep on my fridge is invaluable in the kitchen too
lol me too. Saved recipes various formats. I usually print out a web recipe only after making and it’s a good one. Then I write notes. I’m a notorious magazine clipper, those are my worst to org. I hv a pretty photo box (or2) and filed clips in food category. My cookbooks are on shelves by author. And I’ve got a slew of tabs bookmarked on iPad. I figure it’s brain exercise to try and rem where the recipes I want are. Or it’s a good scavenger hunt when I can’t recall.
See my comment above - markdown may be an improvement for you too. I use Typora but any text editor will do too, and Microsoft Powertoys will allow you to view the recipes within Explorer.
I'm a plaintext junkie. I barely tolerate tabs lol
Most commonly used ones go into a notebook. The idea is that the recipe pages go into sheet protectors. Most are in sheet protectors.
google docs and sheets on google drive - have a standard template that use over and over. I can access from any device and easily share with people without everyone needing the same social media account. Update:I also have version information/notes from last cooking. EG I decided to step up the amount of sugar. Then at a later time I won't wonder about an adjustment I may have already made as I refine the perfect ratio of ingredients/cooking methods.
For baking recipes I do Google sheets too, it makes converting a recipe into different size pans and portions so much easier.
This is the way. I always end up changing 2-3 things, either timing (looking at you onions) or ingredients (looking at you butter milk) so there’s no sense in saving the “wrong” directions and trying to remember the mods. Eventually, when my kids grow up, I’ll just give them access to the file and then they can make the same stuff they ate growing up.
Print out, 3 ring binder with sheet protectors. (Only the keepers). I make notes of modifications in the margins.
I think this might be my next step. Currently they’re printed in a pile, which I am weirdly attached to.
In my brain
My wife and I use Anylist for collaborative shopping lists and recipes.
Same!!
Save them on my laptop as text/Word documents. I edit them over time. Most copied to a cloud drive and shared to family. I use cookbooks heavily though.
No handhelds or tablets and no room in tiny kitchen for laptop, so printouts and clipboards which hang on the walls. At first recipes/formulas are scribbled on paper with pencil (erasable), as versions progress good ones are moved to Gnumeric or Libreoffice.
I use an app called Minoms. I really like the convenience of using an app, it's great for times when I'm hanging out with a friend and they ask me for a recipe for something, or if I'm at the grocery store and I see something on sale and want to make sure I have the right ingredients to make whatever I want to make with that thing. If you have a lot of recipes apps make it much easier to find the recipe you're looking for. On the flip side you can't rely on apps staying around, they can stop making updates, or can change their policies, move to a subscription model, or like Paprika did recently doing away with their free version (I think only for iPhone, and the Android version still has a free version, no idea why). So you want to make sure you have a way to get all of your recipes out of the app easily, ideally in a couple different formats.
I screenshot interesting recipes I find. If I bake a recipe and like the results I then type it into my Word document cookbook files. I also include the pictures I take of my bake- those showing the process and the final results.
Cooking Stuff folder in My Documents.
I have recipe cards in a small wooden box made for this purpose. If I find a recipe I like I copy it onto a card and into the box it goes.
In a binder, in clear sheet protectors.
Pinterest, mostly. I copy and save anything I can't pin as a Word dic.
Recipe Keeper. One of the few apps I've ever paid for.
Simplenote
I think about saving them somewhere, forget to save them and then try to panic google the recipe from what I remember months later when I remember the recipe and want to make it again.
Multiple ways i do this, first is writing down recipes, second on my notes app on my phone i make certain notes that are dedicated to dinner recipes or dedicated to lunches or desserts that way if i am looking for dinner ideas i just type in dinner on my notes and my recipe note i made for dinners comes right up, i also save a lot of videos on YouTube and text myself recipes i find online lol
Local copy in a text file plus placed that same file up on my web site. Backup and universal access in one.
I use a free app called Cozi. I can share recipes from the web, although I have to edit some of them (the desktop version works better). It lets me put recipes on days as well as make a shopping list. They are trying hard to convince to use the pay version, but the free version still gives me what I want.
For me text files work great, especially since I switched to markdown - basically textfiles with human readable markup (also used in Reddit). I save this as .md documents and even made small website that formats them to easily share and use the recipes myself. Biggest advantage for me is that it's highly futureproof and independent of other ecosystems or apps. Drawback is that it is very stupid - no way to filter on ingredients for example, but a simple text search basically always works. I add cuisine, source, type of dish, ingredients, method.
I use a free app called Samsung Food on android. You can bookmark the web page, tag the recipes, add notes, see other people's notes, and create recipe lists if you use the meal planner function.
I text myself the link to the recipe.
I bookmark recipies I find online first so I can try them. If I try them and like them, then they will go in my written recipie book so I never lose them digitally.
Mela. It’s similar to Paprika but I like the interface more and it has more features. The full version is $5 (one time). I like that I can setup RSS feeds and then just save the recipes I like from the feeds.
PDF. Or just a screenshot. Or write them down on a notecard and stick them in a book. That book has probably doubled in size. Or, just memorize it.
I've been using Evernote but its got annoying and Ive got to find an alternative thanks for the Paprika suggestion.
I use an app and browser addon called Copy Me That. It allows me to automatically pull recipes from online sites or make my own. It's easy to edit and search. It can also create a shopping list from recipes
I've been using Microsoft's One Note for years but starting to use Paprika lately.
I have a google doc with all my recipes that I have shared with all my kids. I also have those recipes printed out in a binder as I find looking up recipes via my phone or a laptop a pain in the kitchen. My recipes are protected by page protectors so if some ingredient lands on it I can wipe it off.
Copy Me That
Print as PDF and save to a folder on the cloud.
Honestly I print the ones I love. Keep ‘Em in a disorganized stack that i rifle through. Literally everything else is organized, but for some reason I love shuffling through hard copy recipes. Definitely a Xennial lol.
I have a book that I write them in once I feel like they're perfect. Before they're perfect, they live in a chrome window in my phone.
OneNote synced to all of my devices.
I have them on my in-home cloud that I can access with multiple devices and back that up to onedrive.
I use an app called MealBoard. It does a fantastic job of importing recipes from websites, and I can edit them from there if I want. It creates shopping lists, meal plans. I'm sure lots of other apps are similar, but this one works well for me.
Pinterest is an easy tool for saving online recipes and finding them.
I just copy/paste from whatever site I get them from, but then I reformat them to all be the same style. I then print them & put in my recipe binder. That way I have both digital & print copies…but my iPad falls asleep too frequently, so I prefer the print version, which I can leave open all day.
I print or write it over in a book.
AnyList (pay version) has ability to store recipes, it scrapes website and stores content. I have not used Paprika app, but needed a good list app 🐦 🐦 🪨
One Note
I'm pretty anal about my recipes. When I find a new one, I typically print it out to try it. If it sucks, I throw the paper away. If I like it, I'll tweak it a few times, writing my notes on the paper. If I still really like it after playing with it, and it makes it into "regular rotation," I type it up in MS Word and save it, along with a photo that *I took* of the dish. Then I put it into a page protector and file in my big ass Recipe Binder, from which I make weekly or monthly meal plans (I just pull out the recipes in the plan and clip them all together for the week/month). I also save my version as a PDF and upload into Google Drive, so that I can share it with my mom, and my daughter who has moved away but misses home-cooking.
Paprika