Cooking should come with instructions you can actually follow.
We got tired of recipes buried under life stories, so we built a place where the ingredients are exact, the times are honest, and the steps are written for someone standing at a stove, not scrolling on a couch.
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Recipes organized by what you actually search for — cuisine, ingredient, occasion, and how much time you have.
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Every recipe lists exact quantities, real cook times, and numbered steps you can follow with flour on your hands.
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A growing library that spans continents — filter by country to find dishes from home, or discover a cuisine you've never cooked before.
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Frequently asked
Recipes are drawn from open recipe databases — TheMealDB and TheCocktailDB — then normalised, checked and stored here with their ingredients, steps and timings laid out consistently. Members can add their own recipes too, and those sit alongside the imported ones.
Yes. Create a free account and add it from your own recipe page, or send it through the contact page and tell us what makes the dish worth featuring.
CookInstruction is a worldwide recipe site. The country list is pulled from an open country data API, so every nation is available to browse, and we add recipes to them continuously — from West African stews to Southeast Asian noodles to everyday European bakes.
Where the source publishes a time, we use it. Where it does not, we work one out from the method and label it as approximate on the recipe page, rather than presenting a guess as a measurement.
Yes, completely. An account lets you save recipes to your own box, publish your own recipes, and leave reviews. You can sign up with an email address or with Google.