How to import a recipe from a website URL

That layout is not an accident — long pages carry more ads and rank better. But you do not need the story at 6pm on a Tuesday. You need twelve ingredients and eight steps, in a form you can cook from and shop from.

Why bookmarking the page doesn't work

• Pages disappear. Blogs go offline, get paywalled or get rewritten. Your bookmark rots.
• You need signal in the kitchen. A bookmark reopens the ads, not the recipe.
• You cannot scale it. Doubling a recipe means doing arithmetic on every line by hand.
• You cannot shop from it. The ingredients stay trapped on the page instead of landing on a list.

How to do it in ChefBook

1. Copy the recipe's URL. From your browser or the site's share button — any recipe website works.
2. Paste it into ChefBook. Open ChefBook and paste the link into the import field. ChefBook fetches the page and extracts the title, photo, ingredients, steps, prep time, cook time, cuisine and difficulty.
3. Check the result. The recipe arrives clean and structured, with the story stripped out. Edit anything that came across oddly — you own it now, and it is stored on your device.
4. Scale it to your table. Change the serving count and the ingredient quantities adjust with it. No mental arithmetic at the counter.
5. Send it where it is useful. Add it to your weekly meal plan, push its ingredients to the grocery list in one tap, or open it in Cook Mode.

Once it's imported, it's yours

An imported recipe in ChefBook is offline-first: it lives on your device and opens instantly with no connection, which matters more than you would expect in a kitchen with thick walls or a supermarket basement.

It is also searchable by ingredient, translatable into your language with one tap, and it carries nutrition information — calories, protein, carbs, fats, fibre and sugar per serving — so you can see what a meal costs you before you commit to cooking it.