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mific ([personal profile] mific) wrote in [community profile] gluten_free2020-11-30 11:52 pm
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Paprika 3 recipe organiser

I recently discovered this app Paprika 3 - there are versions for iPhone/iPad, android, PCs. For iPad the app's cheap ($4.50) - costs a little more for PC but still under $15 (but there's apparently a sale on at present, so I'm not sure if that'll go up a little). So far I've just used it on iPad. 

Paprika app logo -a  red can with chili pepper on it.

You may already know it but I hadn't encountered it before. It's a recipe organiser - it downloads recipes from websites.
That sounds simple enough, but the great things about it are:
  • it ONLY downloads the recipe so all the crap that recipe websites add in these days where you have to scroll for miles and miles past images and ads and chat and verbiage is left out. I find it downloads one main image per recipe which is good for quick recognition. It downloads the prep time and number served, the ingredient list, method, and nutritional info if the recipe has that. 
  • it lets you organise the recipes into categories as you download them, or afterwards. You invent your own categories and can change them and organise them into category trees if you want. 
  • you can edit the text of the recipe after downloading it, so you can correct typos in the recipe or adjust it from your experience, or to make the recipe GF or low carb, etc. 
  • once you have the recipe downloaded (and maybe edited) you can share the text of it (e.g. by email, or use that function to paste the text, e.g. to this comm.) 
  • when it downloads the recipe it includes a link to the source webpage where the recipe came from. 
  • the app includes a browser so you can hunt for recipes within it, and save them. 
  • although I haven't used these functions (and probably won't) you can also use it to make grocery lists and meal plans.
  • It can scale recipes so you can set it for (e.g.) 1.5 x the core recipe and it adjusts all the quantities with no need for mental arithmetic. 
I tested it on our recipes in this comm - it downloaded my recipe for low-carb GF rolls just fine. It struggled with the photos but I found that pressing on the pic (maybe R-clicking on PC?) gave the option "add photo to recipe" and if I saved the recipe after selecting that, it grabbed the pic as well. It downloaded the recipe perfectly, separating out the prep time, no. of servings, Ingredients, Method, and Nutritional Info (even though I hadn't titled it as that in the recipe, so it's a clever algorithm). It also worked fine on another recipe posted by someone else, but it deletes any initial chat or preamble about the recipe. However you always get the link, so as to check back for any extra info or tips in the  comments. 

In short, I really like it and think it's very useful. 

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