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Recommendations for self hosted recipe manager (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by MaggiWuerze@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone,

I am currently using a wild mix of browser bookmarks, actual printouts, saved PDFs and screenshots to save recipes I liked and might want to cook again. Obviously this has become unsustainable over the years so now I thought I could put that into a service specialized for that and maybe also stop using Bring! as my shopping list while I'm at it, just to reduce my dependence on cloud services.

I am basically looking for something I can use to catalogue my recipes that allows me to import my various sources and turn them into a searchable uniform format, preferably with some sort of OCR.

I looked at Mealie and Kitchenowl but don't quite like how they present the recipes and their recipe parsing works only so so...

Have you guys any recommendation?

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[-] jcolag@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago

It looks like they have something at https://cook.md/, but I have to admit that the marketing-speak gives me a headache with their paid tiers and AI-bot thing.

However, because it's all text, it's still pretty flexible. For example, if we find a recipe, say Bánh Mì (gotta love Wikibooks having random things like this...), if you stuff https://cook.md/ in front of the URL, their (LLM-driven) service parses it out, like so, with a download file. That's a bit fussier/uglier than handing it a link (or clicking a browser add-on), but probably still in-bounds for casual users, if only barely...

this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2026

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