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How we're building FasterChef, and what we've learned about the gap between saving a recipe and cooking it.
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How to decide what to cook this week in about a minute
Deciding what's for dinner is a decision problem, not a recipe problem. A method that works whether or not you use an app, and why "what should I cook" is the wrong question to start with.
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Is it OK to save someone else's recipe from Instagram?
Recipes sit in an odd corner of copyright law — the ingredient list usually isn't protected, the words and video around it are. What that means for saving, sharing and apps that import.
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How to save a recipe from a YouTube Short
YouTube Shorts are the easiest of the three to save recipes from, and almost nobody mentions why — the description field is long, and there's usually a full video with the same recipe in it.
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How to save a recipe from TikTok so you can actually cook it
TikTok recipes are harder to save than Instagram ones, and it's not the app's fault — it's where creators put the method. Every way to get one out, and which to use when.
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Why your grocery list should be sorted the way you walk the shop
Aisle order is the difference between one lap of the supermarket and three. How the categories should work, why every app gets a few wrong, and why the fix is remembering your correction.
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The meal planner problem nobody names: the empty calendar
Almost every meal-planning app hands you a blank week and asks you to fill it in. Here's what an actually automatic planner has to do instead, why it shouldn't use AI, and where it still fails.
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Why you save 200 recipes and cook none of them
The gap between saving a cooking video and actually making it isn't laziness. It's four small frictions that compound, and each one has a fix nobody has bothered to build all at once.
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Why your shopping list has garlic on it three times
Merging "2 cloves garlic" and "1 tbsp minced garlic" into one line sounds trivial. It isn't, and the four questions software has to answer first are the reason almost every recipe app gets it wrong.
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How to save a recipe from an Instagram reel (properly)
Five ways to get a recipe out of a cooking video and somewhere you'll actually find it again — screenshots, collections, the notes app, and the automatic route — compared honestly, including where each one fails.