Prep Slate
Features
What Prep Slate does, exactly.
The longer version. Five capabilities, what each one actually does, and where each one stops.
Cook mode
Built for wet hands and one thing at a time.
Step and ingredients on one screen. Your ingredients sit beside the step itself, tap to cross them off as you go. Every timer in the recipe is one tap away: bring to a simmer for ten minutes becomes a chip with 10:00 on it, and it keeps counting when the screen locks.
“Scaling that does not insult you. ”
Half a teaspoon becomes a quarter, not 0.5. Six eggs becomes nine, not 8.5. Adjust servings and the quantities come out the way a cook would write them down. A quiet timer runs from the first step, so you know how long dinner actually took.
When the cooking starts
A focused experience that stays out of your way.
Library
A library that still works at the 200th recipe.
Saving is easy.
Import a recipe and tags apply themselves, based on ingredients and technique. Search reaches ingredients, tags, and notes, not just title text: type anchovy and you find the Caesar. Stack tags to narrow two hundred recipes down to four.
Where it stopsTagging happens at import and reads the imported ingredients and steps, so a sparse import gets fewer automatic tags. Add your own in a tap.
Import
One URL is the whole import flow.
Paste any recipe URL and the photo, prep and cook times, yield, ingredients, and steps come in as real fields, not a screenshot you have to retype. It reads the recipe data most cooking sites already publish.
Everything lands as real, editable fields. Fix the wrong serving count, drop the affiliate-link sentence, add your own note. If a site is not readable this way, snap a photo of the page instead, or fall back to a clean manual form.
Plan
The plan knows when to start.
Drop a recipe onto Thursday and the plan does the math you usually do in your head, the week walked backward from the moment you sit down. Move a dinner from Wednesday to Friday and the prep timing reshuffles itself.
- 4:45Pre-prep Defrost, soak, or marinate anything that needs a head start.
- 5:05Prep everything else Chop, measure, line up your mise en place.
- 5:15On the stove Heat the pan, start the braise, set the timers.
- 5:30Sit down to eat Everything finishes at the same time. On purpose.
Where it stopsThe timing leans on the times in the recipe. A recipe that never says how long the dough rests gets a plain start time, not a backward-planned one.
Shop
The shopping list adds itself up.
Every ingredient on the week, totaled and combined, deduplicated by the unit, not the word. Two recipes that both want a yellow onion become one line. Bought items stay in a checked-off pile until you clear them, and pantry staples you already have are easy to skip.
Where it stopsTotals only add up when units agree. A cup here and a splash there share a line, but the list will not guess at a combined amount you would not trust.
Ready to try it?