Answers for getting started with Evercooked.
Evercooked helps you keep a living record of the dishes you cook, the versions you make, and the memories, occasions, sources, and stories connected to them.
Evercooked is for preserving what you cook over time. You can keep track of dishes, preparations, cooking memories, meal log entries, holidays, occasions, photos, recipe notes, and the details that make food meaningful.
You can browse public dishes, holidays, public preparations, public cook profiles, and public cooking logs without signing in.
You need an account to create and manage your own preparations, cooking memories, meal log entries, occasions, saved preparations, profile settings, and recipe imports.
You can reach Evercooked through the Contact page for questions, account issues, privacy requests, technical problems, story-related notes, or feedback.
At this stage, support is handled directly rather than through a separate in-app ticketing system.
A dish is the shared food record, such as matzo ball soup, dal, lasagna, or apple pie.
A preparation is your own version of that dish: what you made, when you made it, what changed, what you want to remember, and any recipe details, notes, or photos you choose to save.
Yes. When you create a preparation, you can choose an existing dish. If the dish is not already in Evercooked, you can add a new shared dish from the preparation form.
Yes. Some preparations can be used as a starting point for a new version.
When you start from one of your own preparations, Evercooked can carry over more of the recipe and context. When you start from another cook's public preparation, personal details such as their story, date, photos, and private context are not copied into your version.
Yes. Preparations can include photos. Photos can help preserve what the dish looked like, who was there, how it changed, or what you may want to remember next time.
Preparations can be private or public.
A preparation can appear publicly only when both of these are true:
Private preparations are not shown publicly.
A cooking memory is a private rough capture. It gives you a place to save notes, source images, a possible dish name, what changed, what mattered, and what you may want to remember next time.
Cooking memories are useful when you want to save something while it is fresh, but you are not ready to create a full preparation yet.
No. Cooking memories are private and do not currently have a public browsing page.
Yes. A cooking memory can be shaped into a full preparation later. During that process, you can connect it to a dish and choose which details or source images should carry forward.
The cooking log is your personal workspace for meals you cooked, planned, skipped, or may want to revisit. It can help you remember what happened without requiring a full preparation every time.
Yes. Some cooked meal log entries can be saved as preparations when you are ready to keep a fuller record.
Cooked meal log entries can include a meal photo. Planned or skipped entries need to be marked cooked before a meal photo can be added.
Meal log entries can be private or public.
A meal log entry can appear publicly only when both of these are true:
Private meal log entries are not shown publicly.
A public cook profile is the public page connected to a cook. It can show public preparations and public cooking activity connected to that person.
Evercooked uses the cook profile as the public identity for shared user-created content.
Yes. When your cook profile is private, your profile page is not publicly visible.
Content that depends on a public cook profile, such as public preparations or public meal log entries, will not appear publicly unless your cook profile is public too.
Public preparations and public meal log entries need clear attribution. Requiring a public cook profile helps make it clear who shared the content.
Evercooked will explain that public sharing requires a public cook profile. You can make your cook profile public before sharing, or keep the preparation private.
Evercooked will explain that public sharing requires a public cook profile. You can make your cook profile public before sharing, or keep the meal log entry private.
Yes. You can follow a public cook from their cook profile. Some public preparation pages may also include a follow action.
Following helps you return to cooks whose public preparations and food stories you want to keep up with.
Saving a preparation lets you keep track of a public preparation from another cook. Saved preparations appear in your kitchen so they are easier to find later.
No. Saving is for keeping track of public preparations from other cooks.
Holidays are shared Evercooked records that help organize food traditions around public calendar concepts.
Occasions are your own personal contexts, such as a family gathering, annual meal, seasonal tradition, or meaningful cooking moment.
Holidays are shared records managed by Evercooked. You can browse holidays and connect preparations or meal log entries to existing holidays.
Yes. Signed-in users can create and manage personal occasions in My Kitchen.
Some occasion names can appear publicly when they are marked public and attached to public content. Private occasion details are not shown publicly.
Yes. On a preparation, you can save source details, servings, prep time, cook time, ingredients, steps, recipe notes, and recipe sections.
Yes. When a recipe page provides supported structured recipe data, Evercooked can import recipe details for review.
Imported details may include source information, servings, timing, ingredients, and steps.
No. Imported details are added to the preparation form for review first. You can review and adjust the details before saving the preparation.
You can keep the recipe link as a source and add the recipe details yourself.
Evercooked helps avoid overwriting your work. When recipe details already exist, you can choose whether to fill blank fields only or replace structured recipe fields.
Personal story and memory fields are not replaced by recipe import.
No. Recipe import is meant to help preserve recipe structure, such as ingredients, steps, timing, servings, and source attribution.
Public preparation stories, personal notes, and changes should be written in your own words.
Yes. Public preparations based on imported recipe details should keep source attribution, such as the original recipe URL.
Not yet. Evercooked currently supports manual recipe details and URL import when structured recipe data is available.
Dedicated capture for handwritten cards, cookbook pages, screenshots, scans, PDFs, photos of original recipe materials, OCR, audio, and transcription is planned separately.
You may be able to attach photos in some cooking flows, but those uploads do not automatically read, extract, or transcribe recipe text.
You can browse public dishes, holidays, preparations, cook profiles, and public cooking logs.
You need an account to create or manage your own preparations, cooking memories, meal log entries, occasions, saved preparations, profile settings, and recipe imports.
You can manage your cook profile from your profile settings. From there, you can update your display name, profile details, avatar, and profile visibility.