Recipes,
without the life story.
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Explore the latest creations shared by other home cooks.
Cook Out Style Coleslaw
This is a clone of the coleslaw that is used at Cook Out. It can be put on hot dogs, burgers, or just eaten as a side. It has the tangy North Carolina taste due to the vinegar and mustard.
Fluffy Pancakes
These pancakes are far fluffier than what you'll get from, for example, following the recipe on a box of Bisquick. Make sure as you're pouring the batter on the griddle that you go slowly to increase the height. The thickness of the batter will do the rest.
J. Alexanders Steak Marinade
This is a clone of J. Alexander’s Steak Maui Hawaiian ribeye marinade. It hits that same savory-sweet profile using soy sauce, brown sugar, pineapple juice, ginger, garlic, and apple cider vinegar. If a 48-hour marinade in pineapple juice sounds risky, the trick here is the quick simmer at the beginning. Pineapple contains an enzyme called bromelain that normally breaks down meat fibers until they turn to mush. Simmering the marinade first kills off that enzyme with heat, meaning you can safely let the steaks soak for two full days to get deep flavor without ruining the texture of the beef.
A powerful, quiet kitchen assistant.
Everything you want in a recipe manager, with none of the clutter.
Your Digital Cookbook
A clean, elegant interface to store, view, and organize every recipe you love. Search instantly, categorize with ease.
Effortless AI Importing
Paste any recipe text or drop in a link from your favorite site. Our Gemini-powered AI parses ingredients, steps, and prep time into your cookbook automatically.
Scale Any Recipe
Cooking for one or feeding a crowd? Scale to ½×, 1½×, 2×, or 3× and AI recalculates every ingredient and instruction to match.
Automatic Nutrition Labels
Every recipe gets a detailed, FDA-style nutrition label. Calories, macros, and more at a glance.
Cook-Along Mode
Check off ingredients and steps as you go and pick up right where you left off. Your screen stays awake at the counter, no extra taps required.
Share on Your Terms
Keep recipes private or share with friends, family, or the whole world. You control who sees what.
Recipes, minus the life story.
You know the drill: a 1,200-word essay about someone's trip to Tuscany, a cookie banner, three pop-up ads, and an autoplaying video, all before you find out how much flour to use. That's not an accident. Recipe blogs make their money from ad impressions, and more scrolling means more impressions, so the recipe itself keeps getting pushed further down the page.
A typical recipe blog
- Paragraphs of backstory before the ingredients
- Pop-up ads, autoplay video, and newsletter modals
- Endless scrolling to find the one step you forgot
- A different, cluttered layout on every single site
- No way to scale a recipe up or down
- Nothing saved if the site goes down or gets rewritten
braisebook
- Ingredients and steps, front and center
- No ads, no popups, no autoplay video, ever
- One clean, consistent layout for every recipe
- Check off ingredients and steps as you cook
- Scale any recipe to ½×, 1½×, 2×, or 3× in a tap
- Saved permanently to your own private cookbook
None of this is a knock on recipe bloggers — plenty of them are genuinely talented cooks who built useful sites long before their livelihood depended on how long you stayed on the page. But you shouldn't have to fight through someone's story every time you want to make dinner. Paste a link into braisebook and AI reads the whole page, pulls out just the ingredients and the steps, and drops them into one clean layout you'll actually want to use standing at the counter — no scrolling, no ads, no life story required.
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Common Questions
Is braisebook free to use?
Yes. Creating an account, saving recipes, importing with AI, generating nutrition labels, and scaling recipes are all free.
Can I import a recipe from any website?
Paste a link or the raw text of a recipe and braisebook's AI reads it and pulls out the ingredients, steps, and prep time automatically — no more copying and reformatting by hand.
Does scaling a recipe actually update the instructions, not just the ingredient list?
Yes. When you scale a recipe, AI recalculates every ingredient quantity and updates any quantities mentioned in the instructions to match, so a step like "add 2 cups of flour" is scaled along with the ingredient list.
Will braisebook generate a nutrition label for my recipe?
Yes. braisebook can automatically generate an FDA-style nutrition label — calories, macros, and micronutrients — based on your recipe's ingredients.
Are my recipes private?
Every recipe is private by default. You can choose to share an individual recipe with a specific person or make it public so anyone with the link can view it.
Is there an Android app?
Yes, braisebook is available as a native Android app on Google Play, so your cookbook is with you at the store or the stove.