Hi everyone,
I am currently using a wild mix of browser bookmarks, actual printouts, saved PDFs and screenshots to save recipes I liked and might want to cook again. Obviously this has become unsustainable over the years so now I thought I could put that into a service specialized for that and maybe also stop using Bring! as my shopping list while I’m at it, just to reduce my dependence on cloud services.
I am basically looking for something I can use to catalogue my recipes that allows me to import my various sources and turn them into a searchable uniform format, preferably with some sort of OCR.
I looked at Mealie and Kitchenowl but don’t quite like how they present the recipes and their recipe parsing works only so so…
Have you guys any recommendation?
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I’ve been happy with Mealie for the last year or so. The parsing does often require manual adjustments for ingredients not yet in my db, and while that’s a bit annoying hasn’t been a blocker for me.
Curious to hear other recommendations here too!
Same, mealie has been fine.
So I have to amend ingredients during the parsing, doesn’t take long.
Does everything I need.I love it. There is no android app that I like. I use the web version. Same experience as yours. That’s not a big issue because I don’t add recipes on a daily basis.
Not self hosted, but I’m a huge fan of Broccoli!
I used Broccoli for years and really like it’s simplicity. There is Brassica, which should turn Broccoli into a self host experience, but I couldn’t get it to work. I switched to Mealie very recently and imported all my recipes with a skript. Took me some time, I hope it’s worth it. :)
I have used Tandoor for years and its been really nice, its evolved a lot.
I really liked tandoor but I moved to mealie cuz tandoor doesn’t have any method of backing up your instance and I lost all my recipes when switching to a new machine (a good part of that was user error too but the lack of a backup option to save my dumb ass meant I needed to look elsewhere)
Honestly. Valid, I like my stuff to be portable as well.
I use the cookbook plugin for Nextcloud but I’m here for suggestions too.
My girlfriend writes them in a word processor, prints them and keeps them organized alphabetically in a binder.
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I don’t know if I’d recommend it to anyone else, but I like the Cook “programming language”. They’re a little AI-happy, but that does mean that they run a service that converts online recipes; no OCR that I’ve found. It works nicely for me, because I can dump the recipes in a git repository to move them around, and since it exports Markdown, I can drop recipes into my blog when the situation calls for it.
Oh wow that’s neat
Does the ecosystem have something like Mealie and Tandoor, where a nontechnical user can drop in a link to add a recipe?
It looks like they have something at https://cook.md/, but I have to admit that the marketing-speak gives me a headache with their paid tiers and AI-bot thing.
However, because it’s all text, it’s still pretty flexible. For example, if we find a recipe, say Bánh Mì (gotta love Wikibooks having random things like this…), if you stuff
https://cook.md/in front of the URL, their (LLM-driven) service parses it out, like so, with a download file. That’s a bit fussier/uglier than handing it a link (or clicking a browser add-on), but probably still in-bounds for casual users, if only barely…
Mealie has been great for me, but there’s still a few things missing. I’ve seen some people vibe code some cool little things that would make great additions to something like that (create a meal plan for x amount of people and it’ll create a grocery list; select what you have and it’ll find the recipes you can make; import PDF’s (things like EveryPlate, etc.)).
But, outside of those few minor things I’d like to see, it’s been pretty good. But, the way they present the recipes, I can get that. There’s some work to be done, but overall I really like it.
I’ve been using tandoor after using mealie for awhile. I find it works very well.
Heavy duty ring binder and an a3 laminator that can fit the A4 sheets with reinforced pre cut holes for ringbinding, and a short trip to go support your local library by using their printer.
It’ll require no batteries, no network connection, no troubleshooting and it’s waterproof.
