Why don't you display ingredient amounts and recipe methods?

This is intentional – and it's actually core to what CookShelf is all about.

CookShelf is designed to help you find recipes in your physical cookbooks, not replace them. We show you the ingredients list and page number so you can quickly figure out which book has the recipe you want, then go grab the book and cook from it.

We don't display full recipes – including ingredient amounts and step-by-step methods – because that content belongs to the cookbook authors who created it. We believe in supporting real recipe creators and their work, and directing you back to your books is part of that mission.

Think of CookShelf as a search engine for your cookbooks.

So what can you see in CookShelf?

• The recipe name and page number
• A list of ingredients (without amounts)
• Which of your books contain the recipe
• Comments and photos from other home cooks who've tried it

The idea is: find the recipe in CookShelf, then cook from the book with your screen off.

That said: where there is an authorized online recipe version of a book recipe, we'll also link to that so you can read it when you're away from your books.