Cookies on Gatmer Vakti
This site keeps two cookies — one to sign you in, one to remember your language — and stores your saved recipes and meal plan in your own browser. There is no advertising and nothing is tracked across other sites.
Everything the site does, in the order you're likely to need it. Nothing here needs an account unless it says so.
Search looks at titles, summaries, ingredients, categories and cuisines at once, so “halloumi” finds recipes that merely use it, not only ones named after it. Spelling is forgiven: if nothing matches exactly the search tries again approximately and says so above the results.
Filters stack — category, cuisine, difficulty, total time, dietary tag — and two more are read from the method rather than from tags, so they work on every recipe: no oven needed, and no special equipment. On a phone they live behind a Filters button showing how many are on.
Every filter ends up in the address bar, so a filtered view is a link you can send to someone. A “Showing:” line lists what is currently narrowing things; tap any of it to take it off.
Cook mode is the button to know about: one step at a time in large type, the screen kept awake, and timers pulled out of the method so “simmer for 20 minutes” is a button rather than something to remember. Say “next”, “back”, “repeat” or “exit” if you turn voice on — useful when your hands are covered in dough.
Change the servings and every quantity is rewritten, fractions included. The number is remembered for that recipe and is what cook mode shows, so the two can never disagree. Metric and US units switch with one tap.
Tick ingredients and steps off as you go; both survive a reload and are shared with cook mode.
Timers keep running when you leave the recipe — they sit at the bottom of every page, so you can check the shopping list while something is on the hob.
The heart on any recipe saves it to this device — no account needed — and saved recipes stay readable with no signal at all. The Saved page has its own search and sort once the list grows.
The meal plan is a week. Add a recipe to a day, set how many you're cooking for, and the week builds a shopping list grouped by supermarket aisle. Fill the empty days picks for you: your saved recipes first, nothing you cooked in the last fortnight, and a spread of categories rather than five kinds of pasta.
The shopping list is separate and standing, for when you find a recipe today and shop tomorrow. Add a single recipe from its page, add your own items, and tick things off in the shop.
All of this lives in your browser, not on our server. Moving to a new phone? Settings has “Move this browser's data” — export a file on the old device and import it on the new one.
An account gets you: your own recipes, cookbooks, following other cooks, notifications, and a public profile. It isn't needed to search, save, plan or shop.
Signing up sends a confirmation link, and it matters: until you open it the account can read but not write. Searching, saving, the meal plan and the shopping list all work — those live in your browser. Writing a recipe (drafts included), leaving a review, making a cookbook, following a cook, editing your profile and writing to us all wait until the address is confirmed.
Your account page has a button to send the link again. If it genuinely cannot reach you — a work address that filters it, a provider that keeps bouncing us — write to us from another address and someone can confirm it by hand.
You can download everything we hold about you, and delete your account, from Settings. Neither of those is ever blocked, nor is changing your password.
Account → New recipe. Title, summary, category, cuisine, timings, servings, difficulty, tags, then ingredients and method in sections. Category comes from a list; cuisine comes from a list of about forty with a “Something else…” option.
A draft is visible to you (and to the site's editors) at its normal address, marked with a banner, and invisible to everyone else — so you can read your own recipe exactly as a reader will before publishing it.
Make my version on any published recipe copies it into your drafts, so you can keep your own take on someone else's recipe. The copy credits where it came from.
Reactions sit under the method, and reviews — with an optional photo — below that. You can review without an account.
Signed in, your review goes out under your account name and you get one per recipe: coming back to it lets you change what you wrote, or delete it. If the recipe's author replies, you'll get a notification.
English, Turkish and Greek. The switch is in the header and your choice is remembered.
The catalogue only shows recipes published in the language you're reading, and the filters offer only what exists there — a category never leads to an empty page. A recipe published in more than one language can be read in any of them without changing the site's language.
Add it to your home screen and it behaves like an app. Offline you keep every page you've visited recently and every recipe you've saved — saving pre-caches the page, so a recipe you hearted but never opened is still there in the kitchen.
Once installed it appears in your device's share sheet: share a recipe page from your browser and it opens a new draft with the import already running.
Allergen labels are worked out automatically from ingredient text. They will miss things — an ingredient named unusually, an allergen inside a compound ingredient, a substitution in the method.
Nutrition figures are an estimate produced from the ingredient list. Drink pairings and substitutions are suggestions. Recipes are written by home cooks: check that meat, fish and eggs are cooked through.
If you have an allergy or intolerance, read the full ingredient list yourself and never rely on the label alone.
Some tools use a language model, and where one has been involved the page says so. A recipe drafted by a model carries a warning above the method: it may not have been cooked by anyone, so check the quantities and timings.
A generated cover image is labelled twice — a mark burned into the picture itself, which survives being downloaded or shared, and a label on the page in your language.
Importing from a link or a video reads the recipe from what you point it at. Web imports prefer the page's own structured data, which is exact. Anything the source doesn't make clear is left blank rather than guessed.
Two cookies: one to keep you signed in, one to remember your language. No advertising and no tracking across other sites.
Your saved recipes, meal plan, shopping list, notes, ticks and cooking history live in your own browser, not on a server.
Voice control is the exception worth knowing about: most browsers transcribe speech in the cloud, so what the microphone hears goes to whoever makes your browser. We never receive it, and it only listens while cook mode is open and you have it switched on.
| Key | Where | Does |
|---|---|---|
| Ctrl / ⌘ + K | Anywhere | Search, and jump to any page |
| / | Home page | Jump to the search box |
| ↑ ↓ then Enter | Search palette | Choose a result |
| Esc | Palette, cook mode, menus | Close |
| ← → | Cook mode | Previous / next step |
