Save a recipe from Pinterest

A board with two hundred pins is a mood, not a cookbook. The good news is that most pins are a signpost to a real recipe page — and that page has everything on it.

Save the destination, not the pin

A pin url gives us a picture and a title. The page it points at usually gives us the whole recipe, because recipe sites publish a structured block that says, in so many words, "here are the ingredients and here are the steps".

So open the pin, tap through to the source, and paste that link. One extra tap, and the difference is an ingredient list you can actually search.

When the link is dead

Pinterest is full of pins pointing at blogs that stopped existing years ago. Paste it anyway: the save keeps the picture and the title, so you still have the thing you liked, even when the page behind it is gone.

That is the whole rule here — a save never fails. Whatever we can get, you keep.

What lands on the item

Source · The page behind the pin

Miso-glazed aubergine

Comes across

The photo
Title and cuisine
11 ingredients and 6 steps
Cooking time and servings

An example, worked out. The app does not run on this page.

Finding it back later

Searching covers everything on an item: the title, the ingredients, the steps, the cuisine, the city, your notes and your own tags. So you can look for what you remember, which is rarely the title.

On top of that: filter by recipe or place, by want-to-try or done, by cuisine, by city, by collection or by tag. Those filters are built from your own library, so they only ever show what you actually have.

And when you have made it

One tap marks a recipe cooked or a place visited. A score and a note are optional, and a repeat is a new entry rather than an overwrite — the second time you make something is information too.

Out of that, and nothing else, a taste profile builds up: your cuisines, your cities, your recurring occasions. Counted from what you did, not guessed at.

Questions

Can I import a whole board at once?: Not right now. Saving is one link at a time, on purpose — a board of two hundred pins imported wholesale gives you the same haystack in a new place.
The pin is in a language I do not read.: The text comes across as it was written; we do not translate it. You can rewrite the title to whatever you will actually search for.
What if I paste the pin instead of the source?: You get a perfectly good item with a picture and a title. You can paste the source link over it later — refreshing only fills in fields you left empty.

A save never fails: the link, the title and the image are guaranteed, and everything on top of that is a bonus you can correct.

Rypzy is in closed beta

A personal food library: save from anywhere, find it back, keep what you thought. Private by default — sharing one item is one link.

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