From the kitchen

Notes from the Plate kitchen.

Stories about how Plate works: the AI, the design, and the craft of turning food into recipes.

A phone propped against a jar on a kitchen counter, playing a cooking video, beside a cutting board with chopped herbs and a handwritten shopping list

September 21, 2026 · 6 min read

How to save recipes from TikTok, Instagram and YouTube

Bookmarking a recipe video is not the same as saving the recipe. Four ways to get recipes out of TikTok, Instagram and YouTube and into a form you can cook from.

A stained handwritten recipe card in faded cursive lying on a wooden table next to a phone photographing it, with a worn recipe tin and a wooden spoon in the background

September 21, 2026 · 6 min read

How to digitize handwritten family recipes

A handwritten recipe card exists in exactly one copy. How to photograph, transcribe and back up family recipes so both the handwriting and the recipe survive.

A kitchen scale holding a bowl of dry pasta beside olive oil, canned tomatoes and a wedge of parmesan on a marble counter, with a notebook of handwritten numbers

September 21, 2026 · 6 min read

How to calculate calories and macros in a homemade recipe

Add up every ingredient, then divide by servings. The method is simple and the mistakes are predictable. A worked example for any home-cooked recipe.

An open wooden recipe box on a kitchen table with handwritten index cards fanned out in front of it, beside a stack of worn cookbooks and a sprig of fresh herbs

September 12, 2026 · 5 min read

How to organize every recipe you have ever saved

You already own a binder, a recipe box and a phone full of screenshots. The reason none of it works is not the container. What actually makes a recipe findable, and where to start this weekend.

Plate launch card showing spaghetti bolognese with its ingredients floating above the plate, a cheeseburger teardown, and the Download on the App Store badge

September 11, 2026 · 4 min read

Plate: Recipe Keeper is live on the App Store

Plate is out. Here is what the app does on day one (photo to recipe, ingredient-level nutrition, cinematic teardowns), what it costs, and where to get it.

Plate pantry screen with a searchable ingredient list beside a cheeseburger recipe, its components floating above the bun

September 11, 2026 · 4 min read

Cook what you already have: from pantry to dinner

Dinner is rarely a missing-recipe problem. It is a what-can-I-make-with-this problem. Here is how Plate searches from the ingredients in your kitchen instead of a dish name.

Plate recipe screen for a classic cheeseburger showing servings, time, and difficulty chips

August 12, 2026 · 4 min read

Ingredient-level nutrition, explained

Plate estimates calories and macros for every ingredient in a recipe, not just the dish. How it works, why it recalculates instantly, and what it deliberately is not.

Plate cookbook screen showing recipe covers with ingredients floating above each finished dish

August 8, 2026 · 3 min read

The cinematic teardown: why Plate explodes your food

Every recipe you save gets a cover with its ingredients floating mid-air, lit like a product shoot. The story behind our signature visual.

Plate app onboarding screen showing a phone photographing spaghetti next to the AI-detected ingredients

August 3, 2026 · 4 min read

How Plate turns a photo of dinner into a recipe you can cook

Point your camera at a finished dish and Plate writes the ingredients, quantities, steps, and timing. Here is what actually happens in the seconds in between.