Table: your recipes, with the story behind each one
by The Renascent
$19
Desktop and laptop only. This is one HTML file that you open in a browser on a computer. It is not made for phones or tablets, and on many phones you cannot open a downloaded HTML file at all. Your work is saved on the computer where you use it.
Table is a recipe book you write yourself. You type in the recipes you actually cook, with the ingredients and the steps, and next to them the two things a recipe card usually loses: who gave you the recipe, and why you still make it.
That story field sits above the ingredients, on screen and on paper, because it is the reason to keep the book at all. Under it you can put a photo of the dish, and a photo of the handwritten original, so the handwritten card stays next to the version you typed out.
Each recipe also keeps a log of dated notes. Write down the year you used less sugar, the Christmas it fed fourteen people, or the substitution that finally worked. The notes are kept with the recipe and printed with it.
Cook Mode puts one recipe on the screen at the size you can read from across a kitchen. The step you are on is large, the ones you have finished are crossed out, the ingredients and steps have checkboxes, and wherever a step mentions a time, a timer button appears next to it.
Printing turns the whole thing into a book: a title page with your cover photo and your preface, a table of contents, one recipe per page, and an index of names at the end. Save it as a PDF or print it on paper and have it bound.
Recipes are grouped into chapters you name yourself, and tagged with any words you like, such as Christmas, Sunday, or the name of the person the recipe came from. Search looks through names, people and ingredients.
• The story and the person above the ingredients • a photo of the handwritten original • dated notes per recipe • Cook Mode with checkboxes and timers • chapters and free tags • printed as a book with contents and index • Backup and Restore • dark and light theme.
Runs from a single file, with no account. It works offline and your data stays with you.
Who this is for
The recipes you cook are in your head and on a few loose cards. You want them in one place, in a book you can print and give to someone. Where a recipe came from matters to you as much as the recipe does.
When you would use it
Sitting with the person who taught you a dish and typing while they talk, then photographing their handwritten card and keeping it next to what you typed.
Writing down a dish you learned on a trip, or one you worked out yourself, while you still remember what you changed.
Cooking from the screen, with the step you are on big enough to read across the kitchen and a timer next to any step that mentions one.
Printing the whole thing as a book, with a cover, a table of contents and an index, and having it bound as a present.
Who this is not for
If you want to collect recipes from the internet, this is not it. You type every recipe in yourself.
What it does not do
It cannot import a recipe from a website. It does not change the quantities for a different number of people, and it makes no shopping lists. It gives no advice on food or health. There is no sync and no phone version.
Please note
You type the recipes yourself. Table cannot import a recipe from a website, it does not change quantities for a different number of people, and it does not make shopping lists. It saves the text exactly as you write it.