How to translate a recipe without losing the measurements
Translate any saved recipe into English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese or Chinese, with every amount and oven temperature kept.
Saving recipes
Getting recipes out of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, websites, cookbooks and handwritten cards, then keeping them in order.
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How to save recipes from Facebook posts and reels
Facebook's save button keeps a link, not a recipe. How to get a recipe out of a Facebook post, reel or group and into a form you can cook from.
How to save recipes from Pinterest so you can cook them
A Pinterest board saves pictures of recipes, not the recipes. How to get from a pin to the actual ingredients and steps, and keep them when the link breaks.
How to import recipes from any website, video or photo
Import recipes from websites, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, photos, Notes and other recipe apps: what works, how deep each one reads, and what doesn't yet.
What to do with recipe screenshots in your camera roll
A screenshot is the fastest way to save a recipe and the worst place to keep one. Why the camera roll loses them, and the five minutes that fixes it.
How to share a family recipe collection
Sending the recipes round as a PDF freezes them at one version. How to build a family collection that survives being cooked from and corrected.
How to organise 500 saved recipes you have never cooked
You did not save 500 recipes, you saved 500 intentions. A one-hour method for cutting a bloated recipe library down to the part that answers a Tuesday.
What to do when a recipe disappears from a website
A saved link is a pointer to someone else's file. How to get back a recipe that has gone, and how to stop it happening to the rest of them.
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.
How to save a recipe from a YouTube cooking video
How to save a recipe from a YouTube video: where the ingredients hide (description, pinned comment, transcript) and how to keep a copy you can cook from.
How to digitise handwritten recipe cards
Family recipes on paper fade, burn and get lost in house moves. How to digitise handwritten recipe cards properly without losing the handwriting.
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.
How to save recipes from TikTok and Instagram
How to save a recipe from a TikTok or Instagram video: copy the caption, screenshot the ingredients, or share it to an app that reads the voiceover.
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Sugo is on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac, on Google Play for Android, and in any browser at app.sugo.kitchen. It is free to start, so start saving the recipes you actually cook.