How SouCrunch works

Tell us how much time you have, how much hands-on effort you can face, any diets, and what's in your fridge. We rank every recipe and show you one idea at a time — with the reasons (“uses 5 of your 6 ingredients”, “ready in 25 min”) and what you'd still need to buy. Not feeling it? Tap Not this one or Surprise me.

• Your fridge list is remembered on this device, so next time it's one tap.
• Missing a couple of things? Send them straight to your shopping list.

Recipes on SouCrunch evolve like they do in real kitchens: someone makes a dish, someone else changes it a little, and the best ideas travel. We keep track of all of it.

Every step knows how long it takes and whether it needs your hands (chopping, stirring) or runs by itself (the oven, a simmering pot, dough rising). So instead of doing steps one after another, cook mode tells you what to do while things cook:

While the oven preheats (8:12 left), chop the vegetables.

Here's the plan for a simple traybake — the striped bars run in the background:

• Run as many timers as you like. They keep counting even if your phone locks or you refresh.
• When a timer ends you get a sound, a vibration and a notification — allow notifications when asked.
• Turn on “Keep screen on” in cook mode so your phone doesn't dim with floury hands.

• Paste instead of typing. Both the ingredient list and the steps have a Paste option — one item per line, and we split amounts, units and notes for you. A line ending in “:” starts a section (“For the sauce:”).
• Amounts are numbers. Write 2, 1.5, ½ or 1 1/2 so amounts scale with the servings. “A pinch” and “to taste” are understood too.
• Say how long steps take. “Bake for 25 minutes” is detected automatically; Detect timings fills in the rest.
• Mark hands-off steps (baking, simmering, resting) and steps that can start right away — that's what unlocks the smart plan. Steps that begin with “Meanwhile…” are linked up for you.
• Drafts are private. Save as often as you like; nobody sees your recipe until you publish it.

Contribution badges describe what a cook has shared publicly on SouCrunch. They are not a rating of cooking skill or a verification of a recipe.

Recipe shared

At least one published, available recipe or remix.

Remix cook

At least one published, available remix.

Five dishes cooked

Cook logs on at least five different published, available recipes.

Cookbook keeper

At least one public cookbook containing three or more published, available recipes.

Badges update from currently available public content. Drafts, private cookbooks and removed recipes do not count. Multiple cook logs on the same recipe count as one dish. If a qualifying contribution becomes unavailable, its badge can disappear. There are no points or rankings.

Is SouCrunch free?

Yes — sharing, remixing, cooking and everything else.

Who can see my drafts?

Only you. A recipe becomes public when you publish it.

Someone remixed my recipe — is that okay?

That's the idea! Their version always links back to yours, and it shows up in your recipe's family tree. If they improve something, they can suggest it to you — you decide whether to merge.

What if I delete a recipe that others remixed?

Their remixes stay up. In the family tree your recipe shows as a deleted placeholder so the history still makes sense.

I merged a suggestion and changed my mind.

Open your recipe's History and restore the version from before the merge. Every version is kept.

Can I change servings or units?

Yes. Use the servings buttons on any recipe (amounts scale automatically) and switch between metric and US units.