Guides
Cook from videos, properly.
How to get real recipes out of TikTok, Reels and YouTube, plan a week from them, and know what you’re eating.
- TikTok
How to save a recipe from a TikTok video (and actually cook it)
TikTok cooking videos move fast and rarely list amounts. Here’s how to turn one into a written recipe with real quantities, heat and timings.
2 min read - Instagram
How to turn an Instagram Reel into a written recipe
Reels hide recipes in captions, comments and on-screen text. A practical way to get the full recipe out of a Reel and keep it somewhere useful.
2 min read - YouTube
Get the recipe out of a YouTube cooking video without pausing every ten seconds
Long YouTube cooking videos bury the recipe in twenty minutes of footage. How to pull out the ingredients, method, heat and timings in one go.
2 min read - Accuracy
Why AI recipe apps invent ingredients, and how to spot it
Language models are built to produce complete-looking answers, so they fill gaps. What that means for recipes from videos, and the signs a recipe was guessed.
2 min read - Nutrition
How to work out a recipe’s macros from its ingredients
A step-by-step method for estimating calories, protein, carbs and fat for a home recipe from the ingredient amounts, and where the estimate can go wrong.
2 min read - Planning
Plan a week of meals from the cooking videos you already saved
You have hundreds of saved cooking videos and still ask “what’s for dinner?”. A simple way to turn them into a weekly plan and one shopping list.
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