Cooking isn’t copy and paste.
A shared recipe notebook for home cooks.
Adjust to Taste is a shared notebook for the dishes home cooks actually make: weeknight standbys, restaurant favourites made at home, the family recipe nobody ever measured. Every recipe scales to your table, switches between US and metric, and has a timer for each step. Cook one and say how it went, suggest a change if you made it better, or share a recipe of your own.
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Three habits behind every recipeTimes are guidelines
Every time listed is a starting point. Pots, burners, and appetites differ, so each step says what to look for as well as how long.
Taste before you add
Salt, heat, and spice are written as ranges. Start low, taste, and adjust to the way you like it.
Share what you changed
Cooked it your way and liked it better? Suggest the change. The recipe’s cook reviews it, and every change is credited in the recipe’s history.
The collection
Recipes
Three recipes so far. Each one is cooked, tested, and written down by a home cook. Add yours to the collection.
About
A kitchen notebook, shared.
Why it’s here
A recipe in a cookbook is finished the day it’s printed. Home cooking isn’t like that: you make a dish, notice what could be better, and change it next time. Adjust to Taste is a notebook built around that. Each recipe is written by the home cook who makes it, other cooks can suggest what they changed, and every change is kept in the recipe’s history. The times and amounts are guidelines: taste as you go, and adjust to the way you like it.
It started as my own notebook. I’m Luke, an amateur cook who got into cooking in the early 2000s watching Barefoot Contessa and other cooking shows with my mom. I cook from memory and adjust as I go, and this is where I wrote down the ones worth making again. Now it’s open to anyone who cooks the same way.
Started by Luke Sohl
Cooking from a recipe
- Servings
- Pick how many you’re feeding under Scale recipe, and every amount changes to match.
- US or Metric
- Switch Units to Metric for grams, millilitres and °C. This device remembers your choice.
- Step timers
- Steps that need timing have a timer button. It fills the screen with a countdown you can read from across the kitchen.
- Keep screen on
- Turn it on and your phone won’t go dark while you cook. It shows where your browser supports it.
- Grocery list
- Tick the ingredients you need and press Add to grocery list. Your list adds up what you’ve picked from different recipes, and follows you to your other devices when you’re signed in.
- Download PDF, the arrow at the top of a recipe, gives you a copy to print or keep.
- Cooked it?
- After the method, say how it went: liked it, it was fine, or didn’t like it. Sign in to answer; the totals show under the recipe’s byline.
Sharing a recipe
Sign in with your email
We email you a code to type in. There’s no password to remember.
Write it up
Fill in the form, or paste a recipe you already have, as text or as a link to a recipe page, and the form fills itself in for you to check. If it came from somewhere else, say where.
It’s read before it goes live
Someone on the site’s team reads each new recipe. If it needs a change, you’ll get a note saying what, and you can edit it and send it back.
Your name on it
Once it’s approved it’s on the site, credited to you, and your name links to all your recipes.
Suggesting a change
Every recipe has a Suggest an edit link. Change the amounts, steps, timers or notes the way you made it, say why, and send it. You don’t need an account, and you can add your name for the credit.
The recipe’s cook reviews it. If they approve, it becomes the recipe’s next revision straight away, and the recipe’s history credits the change to you. Nothing changes until then.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes. You can read and cook from every recipe without an account. To share a recipe or say how one went, sign in with your email; that’s free too.
Who reviews recipes?
Someone on the site’s team reads each new recipe before it goes live. Suggested changes to a recipe are reviewed by the cook who wrote it.
Can I edit my recipe after it’s published?
Yes. Open it from My recipes and change what you like: it goes live straight away as a new revision, listed in the recipe’s history. You can delete a recipe there too.
Can I delete my account?
Yes, in Settings. It deletes your recipes (with their history and photos), your name and your sign-in, for good. Suggestions you sent for other people’s recipes stay, under the name you gave.