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Import a recipe from a site that fights back

Recipe sites are built for ad revenue, not for cooking. The good news is that you only have to fight one of them once: Kitchenry pulls the recipe out, shows you what it found, and after that the copy is yours: searchable, scalable, and readable with your hands full.

Draft tutorial, and the screenshots are empty slots. The steps describe real flows, but nobody has walked them end to end for this page and the byline and date are stand-ins.

Step one

Paste the link

Copy the recipe URL and open the create menu. If the link is already on your clipboard, Kitchenry has read it and filled the field before you get there. That is the whole reason the field looks pre-filled.

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Tap the create button, then Paste Link

The + button sits in the middle of the bottom bar on a phone, or top right on desktop. Under IMPORT, pick Paste Link.

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Check the field, then tap Import

A clipboard link appears on its own. If it is the wrong one, select it and paste over it. Nothing has been saved yet.

The Paste Link sheet with a clipboard URL already in the field.
Worth knowing

A link Kitchenry cannot parse fails fast rather than importing something wrong. If you get an error, the page is usually a video with no recipe text, so screenshot the ingredients and use Scan Photo instead.

Step two

Read what came back

Import lands you in Review Recipe rather than in the saved recipe. This is deliberate: parsing is confident about titles and vague about quantities, and the review screen tells you which is which.

Fields carry a confidence badge. Anything flagged low is worth a glance. Usually it is a fraction, a range like "3 to 4 cloves", or a note that belongs in directions and got read as an ingredient.

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Scan the flagged fields first

Ignore the ones parsed cleanly. Fix the two or three carrying a low badge and you have caught almost everything.

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Split anything that merged

A step that swallowed the next one is the most common import defect. Tap into it, and press Enter where the break belongs.

Review Recipe with two low-confidence fields flagged.
Step three

Put it somewhere you will find it

A recipe with no cookbook is a recipe you will re-import in four months. Assign it on the way in, while you still remember why you saved it.

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Add it to a cookbook

One cookbook is plenty at first. "Weeknight" earns its keep faster than a shelf of empty categories.

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Fix the servings

Set servings to what you actually cook. Everything downstream reads this number: scaling, the shopping list, the planner.

Worth knowing

Servings is the single field most worth correcting at import. Get it right once and every scaled version afterwards is right for free.

After

What you get for the five minutes

The imported copy is a full recipe, not a bookmark. Scale it and the quantities follow. Send it to a shopping list and it merges with everything else you are buying. Open it in Cook Mode and it reads as steps rather than as an article.

It also stops depending on the site. If that page disappears behind a paywall or vanishes altogether, your copy does not.

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