Guides
Guides for home cooks
Short, practical walkthroughs for getting the most out of Cooking Together — from rescuing recipes scattered across TikTok and WhatsApp to organizing a library you can actually cook from.
How to Import a Recipe from TikTok
A step-by-step guide to saving any TikTok recipe as a clean, structured recipe you can actually cook from — ingredients, steps, and source credit included.
5 min read
How to Import Recipes from a WhatsApp Group
Turn years of forwarded recipes in a family WhatsApp group into a searchable recipe library in one go, using the bulk WhatsApp import.
6 min read
How to Organize Your Recipes into Collections
Stop losing recipes in a giant unsorted list. Use collections in Cooking Together to group recipes by occasion, meal, or mood — publicly or privately.
4 min read
How to Import a Recipe from Instagram
Save recipes from Instagram Reels, feed posts, carousels, and Stories before they disappear — turned into a clean, structured recipe you can cook from.
5 min read
How to Cook Hands-Free with Cooking Mode
Cooking mode walks you through a recipe step by step, keeps the screen awake, scales ingredients to your serving size, and lets you cook without touching the screen with messy hands.
5 min read
How to Find Recipes by the Ingredients You Already Have
Answer the "what can I make with what is in the fridge" question directly: search Cooking Together by ingredients you already have and cut down on food waste.
4 min read
How to Turn a Photo of Any Dish into a Recipe
Snap a photo of a finished dish — at a restaurant, a friend’s dinner table, or your own kitchen — and get a full recipe you can save, scale, and cook.
5 min read
How to Import a Recipe from Any Website
Paste a link from almost any recipe site — or share it straight from your browser — and get a clean, structured recipe without the life story and the ads.
4 min read
How to Digitize Handwritten Family Recipes
Turn a box of handwritten recipe cards and stained cookbook pages into a searchable digital library — photograph them and let the AI do the transcription.
5 min read
How to Plan a Week of Meals (Without It Feeling Like Homework)
Use the meal planner in Cooking Together to decide the week’s dinners once, generate the shopping list in one tap, and stop re-answering "what’s for dinner" every day.
4 min read
How to Build a Shopping List Straight from Your Recipes
Add ingredients to your shopping list from any recipe, your meal plan, or by hand — organized by recipe, checked off as you shop, nothing forgotten.
3 min read
How to Track What You Eat with Plate
Plate is a private food diary that speaks plain language: type "scrambled eggs and toast", snap your plate, or re-log a favorite — calories and macros are estimated for you.
5 min read
How to Ask AI Anything About a Recipe (Substitutions, Tweaks, and Fixes)
Out of butter? Cooking for a vegan? Not sure when it’s done? Ask AI answers questions about the exact recipe you’re viewing — even mid-cooking.
4 min read
Cook AI: A Kitchen Assistant That Knows Your Recipes
Cook AI searches your own recipe collection, invents new recipes on request, plans menus, and reads photos of your fridge — a cooking assistant with your context.
5 min read
How to Share What You Cooked (and Why It Makes You a Better Cook)
Finish a cook, rate it, photograph it, and share it — or build a never-expiring Cooking Story that presents a recipe beautifully, page by page.
4 min read
How to Keep Family Recipes Private (and Share Them Only with Family)
Private recipes, direct sharing that grants access to exactly one person, and private communities — how to keep a family recipe in the family, digitally.
4 min read
What’s for Dinner? Let the App Answer with the Tonight Card
Every afternoon, Cooking Together suggests one dish for tonight — drawn from your saved recipes and taste profile, swappable if it misses, one tap from cooking.
3 min read