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 liked what I saw so far as well, just wish they would have a better UI for the actual recipe steps. I like to have the relevant ingredients listed with the steps instruction so you’re not constantly scrolling
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.
Just vibe code it to your specs. That’s what i did…
Unpopular on Lemmy maybe but you can just do that now. I had an idea that i could just paste any url into it and it would parse it for my format. I made it self hostable. And my family use it
Username checks out.
We also did use bring for a long time and the only one coming near to it’s UX was KitchenOwl for me.
I’ve been using Grocy, since my main use case is grocery list sharing with my wife. It has recipes as well, and since the DB knows your kitchen, it can display if you’re good to go or need to go shopping for your meal.
