A Trick With the Paprika App

[mific]

I thought I'd share this resource, in case anyone else uses the Paprika app to store GF recipes - I posted before about how useful it is. Probably I'm really slow to realise this, but for quite a while I only downloaded recipes from websites. When I located a good recipe on Youtube I laboriously hand-edited it into Paprika, which was a huge pain as Youtube prevents any copying of the notes field by the poster - which is where the recipes are set out fully. 

But I recently discovered that Paprika is clever enough to be able to suck the recipe out of a Youtube link. Just paste the link into Paprika's browser and hey presto! So easy, and you get a pic as well. Couple of screenshots below to demo this. 

 

 Note that this only works if the YouTube vid does have detailed notes in the info column. :) 

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing.

I’ll admit I’m suspicious of recipe apps. Touch screens and cooking-smeared fingers seem like a terrible combination. How does that work?

[mific]

I usually have the recipe open and propped up on my phone or on a nearby laptop, just to check quantities. It works fine and I don't often get food on the phone screen! :)

[panisdead]

That is great to know!

[mific]

You sometimes get just ingredients with Youtube vids as some vidders only put the ingredients in the notes, with instructions in the vid itself. But it still hugely cuts down the time needed to get the recipe into Paprika and editing in the instructions is easy.