What it does
Keep your recipes in one place, plan the week from them, and turn that plan into a shopping list.
Currently
Live and browser-only at /tools/kitchen. Save recipes with ingredients and instructions, tag them by cookbook, cuisine, and meal type, plan the current week, and the shopping list is derived automatically from the recipes you planned. Everything saves to your browser with no account. Entry is manual: the paste-and-structure mode from the original needed a backend, so it was dropped for this public version.
Recently shipped
- Jun 16, 2026Shipped the recipe box, cookbook and cuisine tagging, weekly meal plan, and auto-derived shopping list.
How I know it's working
instrumented · awaiting trafficThe events are wired into a privacy-first store. Counts populate here as people use it. This is the honest part of the work: instrument first, claim later.
kitchen_launchedkitchen_recipe_savedkitchen_meal_plannedkitchen_grocery_exportedHow it's built
How I built it
I built this by carving the genuinely useful part out of our private couples app and shipping it as a standalone toy anyone can use. Kitchen is a recipe box plus a weekly planner, and the shopping list builds itself from whatever you put on the plan. The decision I am proudest of is keeping the scope tight: I deliberately left out pantry inventory, freshness scoring, and dietary preferences because those are household-ops features that do not fit a single-user public tool. The honest gap is that the paste-a-recipe-and-let-it-structure-itself mode did not make the cut here, so entry is manual.