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Steps
- On claude.ai or in the Claude desktop app, open Customize, then Connectors.
- Click +, then Add custom connector. On some accounts it’s Add → Custom → Web.
- Enter the name Saucepan and the URL
https://getsaucepan.com/mcp, then click Continue. - Set Authentication to Sign in when needed, and OAuth client to Register automatically. Click Add.
- Click Connect. A Saucepan page opens. Sign in with Apple, Google or an email code. No account yet? Make a free one on that page.
- Tap Allow.
You can skip step 5. Claude then asks you to sign in the first time it needs your account.
You can’t change these settings later. To change them, remove Saucepan and add it again.
The free plan allows one custom connector. On a Team or Enterprise plan, an Owner adds Saucepan first, under Organization settings → Connectors. Then each person connects their own Saucepan account.
Turn it on in a chat
In a chat, open the + menu, choose Connectors, and turn on Saucepan.
Try asking
- “Find me a 30-minute vegetarian dinner on Saucepan.”
- “Save this to Saucepan: https://…” with a recipe link.
- “Save that recipe you just wrote to Saucepan.”
- “What can I make with chicken, rice and lemon?”
- “What can I make from my pantry?”
- “Add the ingredients for the lemon chicken to my groceries.”
- “Put it on Thursday’s dinner.”
- “What’s on my meal plan this week?”
Recipes can come back as photo cards in the chat, with Save and Add to groceries buttons.
What Claude can and can’t do
Without an account, it can search Saucepan’s recipe collection: 5,700+ recipes, all with photos, tagged vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, quick and more. It can read any of them.
Signed in, it can also:
- save a recipe from a link, one it wrote in the chat, or one from Saucepan’s recipe collection,
- search your saved recipes and read your collections,
- see your pantry and tell you what you can make,
- add a recipe’s ingredients or single items to your grocery list, and read the list (your household’s list, if you share one),
- read your meal plan and add a recipe or a note to a day.
It can’t delete anything, see your password, or post anything publicly.
Saving from a link works with most recipe websites and food blogs. For Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, share the post to Saucepan from your phone instead.
Disconnect
- In the Saucepan app: Profile → ChatGPT & Claude.
- On the web: getsaucepan.com/app → account menu → ChatGPT and Claude.
Claude loses access at once. You can also remove Saucepan under Customize → Connectors in Claude.
