Common Kitchen Tutorial: Adding Recipes
We often get asked how to add a favorite cookbook or recipe on Common Kitchen, so we thought we’d prepare a quick tutorial. This should take only 10 minutes to try, and when you are done you will be an expert at sharing cookbooks and their recipes!
1. Find a favorite cookbook
Grab a couple of your favorite cookbooks off your shelf. Let’s do a quick search to find one already listed on Common Kitchen. Go to the Cookbooks page, enter a few words from the title (or author, or ISBN) in the search box, and click “Search Cookbooks”. If it’s there, check the ISBN to make sure you have the same edition, then click on the title and skip right to Section 2. If its not there, try another one — with over 750 cookbooks on Common Kitchen it’s very likely that we have at least 3 of your top 5 cookbooks.
2. Add a recipe
Find an interesting recipe in the cookbook, and check that it isn’t already listed in the “Recipes” section of its page on Common Kitchen. Click “Add a recipe from this cookbook,” and you will arrive at a page where you can enter a recipe title and page number, as well as an optional description, tags, and key ingredients. If it’s a recipe that you have tried before, check “Tested,” or if it’s one you want to make sometime in the future, check “Untested,” and we will save it to your “Recipe Box”. If you want to review the recipe, click “Review now!” and a review form will appear. When you are done, click “Save,” and you will be returned to the cookbook page.
Now you know how to add and review recipes! Enter a few more of your favorites so people with the same cookbooks will know what to try.
3. Check out other people’s reviews
If the cookbooks you use have recipes that are already reviewed on the site (Fannie Farmer, for example), you will see some number of stars on the right hand side of the recipe list. If you click on one of those recipes (such as Fannie’s Apple Crisp) you will see the text of the reviews, as well as any secondary sources. In this case, someone has posted a link to a blog where you can find this recipe online. From any recipe page you can add your own review by clicking “Write a review.”
4. Try adding some other things
Were there any of your cookbooks that we didn’t have in our database? You can add them very easily, then add recipes as above. Likewise, your favorite recipe sites and magazines. You can also add and review restaurants (and even dishes for a given restaurant).
Have fun with the site, and let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.
Extra: Find yourself a friend or two
We automatically add the Common Kitchen team to your friend list when you sign up, but if you have other friends who use the site you can search for them by username or email address. Once you have found someone, just click “Add to your network,” and you will see their reviews as “Activity in my network.” They will also appear on Facebook if you have our application installed.
You can always remove friends by clicking the [X] next to their name on your profile page. Know someone who would like the site? Invite them to join!
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