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Cooking as a household
Practical writing on sharing recipes, planning the week, and keeping a family collection in order.
Share Recipes With Your Family Without Group Texts
Recipe sharing should not require screenshots, group texts, or emailed PDFs. Here is what a proper sharing model looks like.
Andrew Judd · 4 min read
Organize Recipes So Your Family Actually Finds Them
Tags, filters, and cookbooks turn a recipe collection from a graveyard into a useful tool. Here is how to organize a recipe library that your whole family can actually navigate.
Andrew Judd · 3 min read
Stop Retyping Recipes From Websites
Paste a URL, the recipe lands in your collection. Take a photo of a card, OCR reads it. Recipe import should be the easy part.
Andrew Judd · 4 min read
Cook With Step-by-Step Timers Built In
Every step that has a duration should have a timer. Here is what cooking looks like when the recipe and the timers are in the same place.
Andrew Judd · 4 min read
Your Family's Recipe Collection in One Place
Real accounts for every family member. Not one shared login. Not five separate subscriptions. Here is why family architecture matters in a recipe app.
Andrew Judd · 4 min read
Substitute Ingredients Without Guessing the Ratios
Ingredient substitutions are a normal part of cooking with dietary restrictions. A recipe app should help you make them, not leave you guessing the conversion.
Andrew Judd · 4 min read
Add Recipe Ingredients to Your Shopping List in One Tap
One tap, the ingredients land on the shopping list, linked back to the recipe. Here is why this trivial-sounding feature is the one that ends up running your week.
Andrew Judd · 4 min read
Mix Recipes and Takeout in Your Meal Plan
Real families do not cook every night. A meal planner that only accepts recipes does not match how anyone actually eats.
Andrew Judd · 4 min read
Meal Plans That Match Your Actual Family Schedule
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner does not fit every household. Shift workers, teen athletes, and toddler families need a meal planner that bends to their schedule.
Andrew Judd · 3 min read
Why We Adopted European Privacy Standards for Everyone (Even in Ohio)
Why We Adopted European Privacy Standards for Everyone (Even in Ohio) (The Gold Standard of Digital Rights) The European Union has a reputation in the tech...
Andrew Judd · 3 min read