You find a recipe that looks perfect for dinner. You open the page, ready to check the ingredients, and then the scrolling begins.
First comes the story behind the recipe. Then a few photos. An ad. A newsletter signup. Another ad. Tips for choosing the right tomatoes. A paragraph about the author’s grandmother. Another photo.
Somewhere down there is the thing you actually came for: the recipe.
Recipe websites have plenty of reasons for being built this way, including the realities of search traffic and advertising. But when you’re standing in the kitchen with your hands covered in flour, none of that helps you figure out how much butter you need.
That’s where Bredbox comes in.
A cleaner way to save recipes
When you save a recipe page to Bredbox, we can detect most recipes and pull out the information that’s actually useful for cooking.
Instead of working your way through the original page every time you want to make dinner, you can open the saved recipe and get straight to what you need.
Ingredients. Instructions. Cooking.
No hunting through the page to find where the recipe starts.
This is exactly the kind of thing a personal library should do. It should preserve the things you care about while making them easier to use when you come back to them.
Find your recipes without remembering where they came from
Of course, cleaning up a recipe only helps if you can find it again.
Maybe you remember that great pasta dish you saved three months ago, but not whether it came from a food blog, a newspaper, or a link someone sent you.
Bredbox keeps your recipes alongside everything else you’ve saved, while still making them easy to find on their own.
Whenever Bredbox detects a recipe, you’ll see a small knife and fork icon in the upper-right corner of the save. You can also select Recipes from the filters on the left side of your Library to see only the recipes you’ve collected.
Instead of searching through bookmarks or wondering which site you used last time, you have one place to look.
Build a recipe library from across the web
One of the nice things about cooking online is that good recipes can come from anywhere.
You might find one on a dedicated cooking site today and another on someone’s personal blog tomorrow. You shouldn’t need a different system for each source.
Save the recipes you want to try to Bredbox, and over time they become part of your own recipe library.
The original website can focus on telling its story.
When it’s time to cook, Bredbox can focus on the recipe.