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Recipes

The main course. Around 1,700 recipes from 75 cuisines, each on its own page with a big hero photo, a clean ingredients column and an easy-to-follow method.

Tutorials

Thirteen long-form cooking courses with over 80 pages between them (bread, BIR curry, rice, pizza, pastry, stocks and sauces, eggs, stir-fry, fish, knife skills, Thai curry, patisserie, pasta). Where the recipes show you how to make a dish, the tutorials explain the techniques behind them.

Search

The search box in the top bar finds recipes by name, by ingredient, or by tag. As you type, the five best matches appear below the box so you can jump straight to one without leaving the page you're on. A small × button on the right edge of the box clears the current search in one tap. Focus the empty box and your last few searches appear as a quick list, so a search you ran yesterday is one click away.

Discover

A page for browsing by tag - diet, course, cuisine, cooking method, key ingredient. A panel at the top shows what's in season this month, so you can build a meal around what's fresh.

Surprise me

Picks a random recipe when you can't decide what to cook. Honours your allergen preferences and can pick from your current filter selection on the Discover page.

Pantry

Tell the site which ingredients you have to hand. It ranks recipes by how close they are to being makeable with what you've got.

Collections

Save recipes you like to Favourites, or make your own collections (Tuesday Dinners, Birthday Bakes, Sunday Lunch). Every collection can be shared with anyone via a link or QR code - no account needed on either end.

Meal plan

A weekly calendar you can drag recipes onto. The shopping list reads from this automatically, so a planned week becomes a ready-made shopping run.

Shopping list

One combined list that pulls ingredients from your saved collections and the week's meal plan, sorted into supermarket aisles. Tick items off as you shop. Print, share or copy it if you'd rather have it on paper or in a message to someone else.

Cooking mode

A distraction-free reading mode for when you're actually at the hob. The chrome hides, the screen stays awake on its own, and the step you're working on stays bright while the rest dims down.

Recipe tools

Each recipe page carries a few small extras: a metric / imperial unit toggle, a serves scaler that adjusts the ingredient quantities, a printable mise-en-place list, and quick actions for printing, sharing or saving the page as a QR code.

Advanced extras

Optional add-ons for the recipe page. All off by default to keep recipes uncluttered; turn any of them on from Settings if you'd like more detail.

• Flavour notes on ingredients - a small (i) appears next to ingredients that have a glossary entry. Tap it for a quick panel of what the ingredient tastes like, what it smells like, and what it usually goes in.
• Countdown timers in the method - every "10 minutes" or "1 hour 30 mins" in the method becomes a clickable timer. The last 10 seconds count down with a soft tick, then a chime sounds when it finishes.
• Ingredient swap suggestions - a small "swap" button appears on ingredients with known alternatives (paneer to firm tofu, ricotta or mascarpone, for example).

Cooking terms glossary

A small dictionary of the techniques, equipment and classical French terms that crop up in the recipes - plain-English explanations of words like blanch, deglaze and chiffonade.

Ingredient glossary

An A-Z of every ingredient used anywhere in the catalogue (over 1,100 entries). Each entry covers what the ingredient tastes like, what it smells like, and what it's typically used in.

Editorial collections

Themed sets of recipes curated by the site - "Friday Night Wins", "Spice Trail Asia", "Sweet Endings" and the like. A seasonal pick rotates through the year (Spring Refresh, Summer BBQ, Fall Harvest, Christmas Feast).

Themes and reading comfort

Twelve themes split between light and dark families. The site can flip to a dark theme automatically at night. There's also a larger-text option and a Custom theme if you'd like to pick your own colours.

Allergens

Flag the allergens that matter to you and the site will highlight matching ingredients in red on every recipe. You can also hide recipes that contain those ingredients from search and the random picker. Detection is best-effort - always read the full ingredients list before cooking.

Cross-device sync

Optional. Pair a second device with a one-time code and your favourites, ratings, notes and shopping ticks stay in step across browsers and phones. Everything is encrypted in your own browser before it leaves the device.

Privacy

Everything you do on the site lives in your own browser - favourites, ratings, notes, shopping list, themes, allergen settings. There are no accounts, no analytics, no cookies. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you explicitly share a recipe or turn on cross-device sync. You can wipe the lot from Settings → Data → Clear all data.