Build a Raspberry Pi Kitchen Display for Your Recipes
Turn a Raspberry Pi into a dedicated kitchen recipe display. Run CookCLI's web server on the Pi, sync your Cooklang recipes, and browse them from a …
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Cooklang is the markup language at the center of an open-source ecosystem for cooking and recipe management. In our blog we share how we use Cooklang and tools.
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Cooking for Programmers: Why Recipes Are Just Algorithms
Recipes are algorithms. Ingredients are variables. Techniques are functions. If you can read code, you can cook — and if you think about cooking like …
Read more →How to Manage Recipes in Obsidian with Cooklang
A step-by-step guide to using the Cooklang plugin for Obsidian. Turn your vault into a recipe manager with syntax highlighting, interactive timers, …
Read more →How to Save Recipes from Social Media and Keep Them Forever
Recipes you save on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook disappear when creators delete posts or platforms change. Here's a workflow to capture social …
Read more →Recipe Discovery Without the Ads and Life Stories
Modern recipe sites bury recipes under ads, pop-ups, and SEO filler. Cooklang Federation offers a different approach — a searchable index of …
Read more →Recipe File Formats Compared: Cooklang vs Markdown vs JSON-LD vs MealMaster
A side-by-side comparison of recipe file formats — Cooklang, plain Markdown, Schema.org JSON-LD, MealMaster, RecipeML, and Open Recipe Format. The …
Read more →Self-Hosting Your Recipe Collection with Docker and CookCLI
Set up a self-hosted recipe server in minutes with Docker and CookCLI. Browse recipes from any device, generate shopping lists, and keep your data …
Read more →The Best Open Source Recipe Managers in 2026
A practical comparison of the best open source recipe managers — Cooklang, Mealie, KitchenOwl, Tandoor, and more. What each does well, where they fall …
Read more →Building the Perfect Pantry with CookCLI: How the Greedy Coverage Algorithm Works
A practical deep dive into how CookCLI uses algorithmic coverage analysis to help users build the most efficient pantry for their recipe collection.
Read more →The Dishwasher Salmon Problem
Recipe blogs prioritize ads over quality, creating bizarre dishes like dishwasher salmon. Cooklang Federation solves this by connecting you to tried …
Read more →Meal Planning as Compilation
I used to think meal planning was for people with too much time. Then I realized I was spending more time not planning meals than it would take to …
Read more →Why Plain Text Recipes Beat Databases Every Time
After years of building recipe apps with databases, I discovered that plain text files solve the real problems better. Here's why the future of …
Read more →The Pantry Problem
I realized something was wrong with how we manage food when I opened my third jar of cumin. Not because I love cumin that much, but because I'd …
Read more →David A. Mundie on Cooking and Technology
An interview with David A. Mundie, creator of RxOL - the first programming language for recipes in 1985. He shares his vision of simplifying cooking …
Read more →How Nutrients Change During Cooking
Cooking transforms the nutritional content of food — sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Understanding these changes is the first step toward …
Read more →Developing file sync library
Alexey on a quest of solving recipe sync problem for Cooklang apps.
Read more →Understanding Recipes as Stack Machines
Recipes push ingredients onto a workspace, transform them through operations, and produce a finished dish — the same way a stack machine pushes data, …
Read more →What Is a Standardized Recipe and Why It Matters
A standardized recipe uses a consistent format for ingredients, quantities, and instructions so anyone can reproduce the same dish reliably. Learn …
Read more →Generating a Recipe Graph with ChatGPT
Using GPT-4 to trace ingredients through cooking steps and generate a recipe graph — a visual representation of how raw ingredients transform into a …
Read more →Recipe Manager Showdown: Cooklang vs. Paprika vs. Mealie vs. KitchenOwl
Comparing four popular recipe management solutions — the minimalist text-based Cooklang, the polished commercial Paprika, the open-source self-hosted …
Read more →Automated Grocery List: Save Time and Money with Meal Planning
Build an automated grocery list from your meal plan using Cooklang. Practical tips for shopping list automation, reducing food waste, and cutting your …
Read more →How to Automate Grocery Shopping with Plain Text Recipes
How I automated my grocery shopping by creating Cooklang — a markup language that turns recipe files into shopping lists. From sticky notes to …
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