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.

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.