Viewing and Cooking a Recipe

Viewing and Cooking a Recipe

The recipe page

A recipe's page shows its photos, ingredients, steps, tags, nutrition info (if entered), rating, and comments. A few things worth knowing:

• Scaling — a 0.5x / 2x / custom toggle above the ingredients instantly recalculates every quantity. This is display-only and doesn't change the saved recipe or do unit conversion.
• Similar recipes and Forks sections at the bottom surface related recipes.
• "I cooked this" marks that you've made the recipe (feeds into your activity; the recipe owner gets notified, same as a rating or comment).
• Personal notes — a private text note only you can see, not even the recipe's owner. Useful for "used less salt" or "double the garlic next time."
• Print to PDF downloads a nicely formatted PDF of the recipe.

LemmeCook mode

Click LemmeCook mode on a recipe page for a distraction-free, one-step-at-a-time cooking view:

• Navigate with large Previous/Next buttons, tap zones, or arrow keys.
• A collapsible ingredients panel keeps the same 0.5x/1x/2x/custom scaling available.
• Steps with a cook/prep time get a built-in timer.
• The screen is kept awake (via a wake lock) so it doesn't sleep on you mid-recipe.
• Voice control lets you say things like "next," "back," "start timer," or ask to have the current step read aloud — handy when your hands are messy.

Forking a recipe

Click Fork to make your own copy of someone else's recipe. The fork is private by default and lands you straight on its edit page so you can adjust it right away. The new copy keeps a link back to the original ("Forked from...") so anyone can see the lineage, and the original owner gets notified.

Rating and commenting

Signed-in users can leave a 1–5 star rating and comments. The recipe owner is notified of new ratings and comments (unless they've turned that notification type off — see Community and Messaging).

Reporting

If a recipe (or a comment on it) breaks the rules, click Report to flag it for moderator review. See Admin and Moderation for what happens next.