Save a recipe from TikTok

Saving inside TikTok means it is gone. Not deleted — just somewhere in a list of four hundred videos you will never scroll back through. Paste the link here instead.

What a TikTok link actually gives up

Not much, and we would rather say so than pretend. A recipe site publishes its ingredients in a machine-readable block; TikTok publishes a video. There is no ingredient list on the page to read, because there is no ingredient list — it is spoken and shown.

So a TikTok save is deliberately a raw one: thumbnail, title, link. That is the guarantee, and it holds every time.

Which is fine, because you barely need it

The reason a saved TikTok gets lost is not that the ingredients are missing. It is that you cannot find the video back. A thumbnail, a title you can rewrite, and a couple of your own tags fix that entirely.

Add "want to make" and it turns up when you go looking. Add what you remember — "spicy", "weeknight", "that noodle one" — and it turns up when you search for that instead.

What lands on the item

Source · TikTok

Gochujang butter noodles

Comes across

The thumbnail, copied to our own storage
Title, from the video description
The link back to the video

Does not come across

Ingredients and steps — a TikTok page carries neither in a readable form

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

Does the thumbnail keep working?: Yes. TikTok, like Instagram, serves images from urls that expire after a few days, so we copy the bytes to our own storage when you save.
Can I type the recipe in myself?: Yes — ingredients, steps, cuisine, time and servings are all editable fields on the item. Every one of them is optional.
What if TikTok takes the video down?: The link goes dead, but your item does not: the thumbnail, the title and anything you typed are yours and stay put.

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.

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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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