The Sugo journal

Notes from the kitchen.

Practical writing about saving recipes, cooking from what you already have, and getting dinner on the table without a browser full of open tabs.

11 August 202624 min read

Paprika vs AnyList vs Crouton vs ReciMe vs Sugo

An honest comparison of the five recipe apps people actually choose between in 2026: what each one is genuinely best at, and where Sugo goes further.

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10 August 202610 min read

How to save a recipe from a cookbook page

Photographing the page is the easy half. The rest of a cookbook recipe is scattered through the book, and here is how to get all of it.

A cook at the hob seen from behind, both hands busy, glancing at a phone showing one recipe step and a timer

8 August 202610 min read

Hands-free cooking: a wink for the next step, a voice for everything else

Voice control is the wrong instrument for turning a recipe page. A look at what you actually ask a recipe mid-cook, and the cheaper controls that fit each ask.

A laptop on a floury kitchen counter playing a long cooking video, paused partway through

8 August 20269 min read

How to save a recipe from a YouTube cooking video

An eighteen-minute cooking video contains about two minutes of actual recipe. Four ways to get those two minutes into a form you can cook from.

An old tin of recipe cards open on a kitchen table, cards spilling across the wood

7 August 20266 min read

How to digitise handwritten recipe cards

The recipes worth keeping are usually the ones on paper, and paper burns, fades, and gets lost in a house move. How to preserve them properly without losing the handwriting.

A phone propped against a jar on a kitchen counter showing a recipe step, beside a floury board of half-sliced onion

6 August 20265 min read

How to cook from a recipe without touching your phone

Wet hands, a locked screen, and a recipe that has scrolled somewhere you can't find. A practical setup for cooking from a phone without picking it up.

A week's shopping sorted into four loose groups along a kitchen counter

6 August 20265 min read

A meal plan that survives a real week

Most meal plans die on Wednesday. The fix isn't more discipline: it's planning fewer meals, in no fixed order, with the week's chaos already built in.

An open notebook, a magazine and loose recipe pages piled on a kitchen table beside a cup of coffee

5 August 20267 min read

How to save recipes so you actually cook them

Most saved recipes are never made again. Here is a system for saving recipes that survives a real week, and how Sugo automates the tedious half of it.

A phone held upright in a kitchen, playing a vertical cooking video shot from overhead

29 July 20265 min read

How to save recipes from TikTok and Instagram

Cooking videos are where most recipes live now, and where they are hardest to keep. Four ways to get a recipe out of a video and into a form you can cook from.

Half a cabbage, two eggs, a lemon, a wedge of hard cheese, a carrot and a knob of ginger on a wooden counter

22 July 20265 min read

What to cook with what you already have

Cooking from the fridge is a skill, not a talent. A practical method for turning whatever is in your kitchen into dinner, and less food in the bin.

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