How to Organize Your Recipes into Collections

Create a collection

A collection is just a named group of recipes. Create one with a name that matches how you cook — the more specific, the more useful. When you find or save a recipe, add it to one or more collections. A single recipe can live in several at once, so a quick pasta can be in both "Weeknight dinners" and "Cooking for kids".

Collection ideas that actually get used

The best collection names answer a real question you ask yourself in the kitchen. A few that tend to earn their keep:

• Weeknight dinners — fast, low-effort, on-a-Tuesday food.
• Dishes for company — the recipes you trust enough to serve guests.
• Try someday — the aspirational pile, so it stops cluttering everything else.
• Baking — separated out because baking is its own mindset.
• Cooking for kids — the reliably eaten ones.

Keep some collections private

Not every collection is for sharing. A collection of recipes you are still testing, or a private family recipe box, can stay visible only to you. Cooking Together also lets you create private communities where a defined group — your family, your supper club — shares recipes only with each other, which is a natural extension of a private collection when more than one person should be able to add to it.

Find recipes even faster

Collections pair well with the app’s other ways of finding things. Tags surface a recipe across collections when you search by ingredient. Search by ingredients answers the "what can I make with what is in the fridge" question directly. Between collections for the recipes you have chosen to keep, and search for everything else, the giant unsorted list problem goes away.