Save recipes from YouTube videos
Open the cooking video in YouTube, tap Share, and choose Saucepan. If the creator wrote the recipe in the description, Saucepan uses it. If not, Saucepan reads the video itself. Either way you get ingredients and steps in your Inbox, ready to review and save.
Free to save. No account needed. iPhone today, Android coming soon.
How it works
Open the video
Find the recipe in YouTube.
Tap Share, then Saucepan
If Saucepan is not in the row, scroll to the end, tap More, and turn it on. You only do this once.
Tap Open Saucepan
The recipe waits in your Inbox as a draft, with ingredients and steps.
Review and save
Fix anything that looks off, then save it to your recipes. Cook Mode, timers and Groceries work from the saved copy.
Long videos and chatty intros
A 20-minute video has a lot of talking that is not the recipe. The draft keeps ingredients and steps, and drops the story. Check that nothing was missed from a long video before you save.
- A recipe written in the description is usually more exact than one read from speech.
- If the video has no description recipe and the creator mixes several dishes, review the steps for order.
- You can edit any line in the draft.
Then cook it.
A saved recipe opens in Cook Mode: one step at a time, in large type. Tap a time to start a timer. Timers ring like an alarm, even on silent.
Add what you need to Groceries, or add the recipe to your meal plan.
Questions
Does Saucepan use the description or the video?
The description when the recipe is there. Otherwise it reads the video.
What if the creator mixes several dishes in one video?
Review the steps for order before you save. You can edit any line in the draft.
Can I keep the video too?
The recipe credits the channel so you can find the video again. The saved copy is the written recipe.
Can I paste a link instead?
Yes. Copy the link and paste it into Saucepan.