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How to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube into one recipe box

The best recipes are in reels and videos now, and most of them end up lost in a pile of saved posts. Fridge Door turns a post's link into a proper recipe, with ingredients and steps you can plan, shop and cook from.

Paste the link

1. In Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or Pinterest, tap Share on the post and copy its link.
2. In Fridge Door, open Recipes, choose Add recipe, and paste it into Recipe link.
3. Fridge Door reads the post's caption or description and works out the recipe, which takes a few seconds. Check the amounts, then Save recipe.

When the recipe isn't in the caption

• The creator links to their own site: Fridge Door offers to Open their page, where the full recipe usually is. Save that page instead, with the Save button if the site blocks apps.
• The recipe is in the video or on screen: choose Use screenshots and pick up to six screenshots with the ingredients and steps in view. See saving from screenshots.
• The caption has it, but the link won't load: choose Paste the caption and paste the text.

YouTube

For YouTube, Fridge Door also keeps the video: it plays on the recipe's page and in cook mode, so you can watch the tricky bit while you cook. It finds the ingredients and steps in the description when the creator lists them, and offers the creator's own recipe link when there is one.

From your phone, without copying

On Android, add Fridge Door to your home screen and it appears in the share menu: share the post straight to it. On an iPhone, the Use the bookmarklet page also shows how to set up a Shortcut that does the same.

Then use it

Once it's saved, it's a recipe like any other: scale it, put it on the week's plan, send its ingredients to the shopping list, and share it with your family circle.

Questions

Does it work with every post?

Most recipe posts include the recipe in the caption or link to it. When a post is only a video with nothing written down, screenshots of the ingredients and steps work best.

Is the recipe read with AI?

When a post has no recipe data, yes, so Fridge Door says so and asks you to check the amounts before saving.

Does it keep the creator's name?

Yes. The recipe keeps its source and a link back to the post or the creator's site.

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