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Image 1 — I finally start cooking my 50 saved cooking reels.
Image 2 — I finally start cooking my 50 saved cooking reels.
Image 3 — I finally start cooking my 50 saved cooking reels.
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▲ 1 r/promoteMyApp

I finally start cooking my 50 saved cooking reels.

I had 50 recipe reels saved. I had cooked zero of them.

Every time I tried, it was the same loop: open the video, pause, rewind, screenshot the caption, still not know the measurements, close Instagram, order food.

So I built Caro, and I actually started going through the list.

Share an Instagram or TikTok recipe to the app (or paste the link). It turns the video into a real recipe — ingredients, steps, times, servings. Then you cook from it, add the ingredients to a grocery list, and keep it in a cookbook instead of a Saved folder you never open.

I’ve been working through those 50. Some of them were genuinely good. Some of them were 12 ingredients for a “quick weeknight meal.” Both are useful to know before you go to the store.

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/recipe-keeper-caro/id6777108493

If you’ve got a Saved folder like mine, throw your worst reel at it and tell me where it breaks.

u/Jeff0412-472983930 — 4 days ago
▲ 45 r/food

Beginner cook and I somehow pulled this off [homemade]

Too bad I couldn’t attach a video of the bone coming off.

u/Jeff0412-472983930 — 4 days ago
▲ 2 r/cookingforbeginners

I have hundreds of saved recipe videos and I’ve cooked maybe three. How do you actually cook the ones you save?

I got into cooking last year and my “system” is just saving every Reel that looks good.

Instagram saved folder. TikTok likes. Random screenshots of ingredient lists. A Notes app graveyard. I tell myself I’ll cook them later and then I can’t find anything, or I open the video and spend the whole time pausing because the ingredients flash by in two seconds.

The ones I have cooked were usually because I sat down and wrote the recipe out by hand first. Once it’s a normal list of ingredients and steps, I’m fine. Following the video live is what gets me.

So if you’re a beginner too:

  • How do you keep the recipes you actually want to cook?
  • Do you rewrite them, screenshot them, bookmark blogs, or just recook the same 4 meals?
  • Any trick for turning a 30-second video into something you can follow at the stove without a second screen?

I ended up building a little iOS thing for myself (Caro) that takes an Instagram/TikTok link and turns it into a written recipe I can cook from. Not trying to plug it, just saying that’s how deep this problem went for me. Mostly curious what you all do, because the saved folder is not a cookbook.

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u/Jeff0412-472983930 — 4 days ago
▲ 194 r/Cooking

Amateur. I spent 4 hours on lamb shank and forgot the lid, so the top came out like jerky.

I watch a lot of cooking creators. They throw a shank in a pot, cut to a glass of wine, cut to this glossy fall-apart thing, and it looks easy. I wanted that. So I finally cooked one instead of just saving the reel.

Four hours. Most of it was me standing there wondering if I was supposed to be doing something.

I was. I was supposed to put a lid on it.

I seared it, put it in the oven, and left it uncovered like it was roasting chicken. The bottom went tender. The top dried out and went hard. So I got both versions of lamb shank in one piece of meat.

Still ate it. The parts that stayed under the liquid were actually really good, which is annoying, because now I know it wasn’t the recipe. It was me.

Next time I’m putting a lid on it. Or foil. Something. Anything.

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u/Jeff0412-472983930 — 4 days ago
▲ 1 r/apps

I spent years saving cooking reels. I finally started cooking them.

I watch a lot of cooking creators. The ones who just… make something. Whatever they’re craving, a little creative, and it actually looks delicious. I wanted that for myself, but I was only collecting it.

Hundreds of saved reels later, I still wasn’t cooking. I’d open Instagram, scroll my folder, pick something, and then give up because the recipe was buried in a caption or I had to rewind the video with flour on my hands.

So I made Caro. It’s an iPhone app that takes an Instagram or TikTok recipe and turns it into ingredients and steps I can actually cook from. Share the reel (or paste the link) and it lives in one library, not in my saved folder. Cookbooks, a grocery list, cups to grams if I need it.

That’s been the shift for me. I’m not just saving anymore. I’m in the kitchen, making the kind of food I used to only watch.

Free to try — 5 imports a week. Unlimited is a subscription if you use it a lot. There’s a Pro thing that simplifies a recipe when a reel has way too many ingredients for a weeknight, but the main thing is just getting the recipe out of the video so you can cook it.

app link

https://preview.redd.it/cqzfy9tnzqjh1.png?width=2246&format=png&auto=webp&s=cee2b0c9143f8aaa579aaee55e646b1df1834dcd

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u/Jeff0412-472983930 — 4 days ago