Guides

Practical notes on getting a clean, consistent recipe out of any source, and on how the house format works.

Every recipe in your library reads the same way. Here is what we remove from a recipe page, what we keep, and the reasoning behind each rule.

How to photograph a cookbook page or a recipe card so the import comes out clean, and what happens when a word cannot be read.

Why some recipes arrive with a "Needs your input" box, what each kind of gap means, and why we never fill one in for you.