Release Notes

The sample recipes now scale like your own, and ingredient details such as “drained and rinsed” appear wherever you read a recipe.

Recipes

• The three sample recipes now scale and switch between US and metric. Before, their amounts stayed the same whatever the servings. If you haven’t edited them, they’re updated for you
• Ingredient details now show next to each ingredient, for example “1 14-ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained”, in the recipe, Cook Mode and when printing. They were saved but not shown
• Amounts read as fractions everywhere, such as ½ teaspoon or ⅜ cup, instead of 0.5 or 0.375

Cook

• Switching to metric now converts teaspoons, tablespoons, ounces and pounds when a recipe spells them out, not only when it abbreviates them
• When a step gives a range, such as “cook 5–6 minutes”, the timer starts at the lower time, so you check at the earliest point

More recipe sites import accurately, and new Slow Cooker and Air Fryer collections gather those recipes for you.

Import

• Recipes from Serious Eats, Simply Recipes, Allrecipes, Delish, The Pioneer Woman, Love and Lemons and many other sites now import from the recipe details the site publishes, so ingredients and amounts come through more accurately
• When a recipe continues on the next page of a post (“Click here to view the full recipe”), Chef’s Pantry follows it and imports the whole recipe. The introduction from the first page is kept in the recipe’s notes
• On long articles, the import now finds the recipe itself instead of reading only the story above it
• If a page doesn’t contain a full recipe, you’re told so, and nothing is saved. Before, the AI could fill in a recipe that wasn’t on the page
• Steps are kept as the recipe writes them, instead of being merged together
• A page that takes too long to read now stops with a message instead of slowing the import down

Smart Collections

• New Slow Cooker and Air Fryer collections. Each appears as soon as you have a matching recipe
• Vegetarian and Vegan are now on, and each appears once you have a matching recipe. They now include recipes from imported libraries and recipes you typed in, not only web imports
• Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free stay off unless you turn them on, and they now note that they’re estimated from the ingredients. Always check the recipe if you have an allergy or intolerance
• A gear next to Smart Collections in the sidebar, and Customize on the Collections page, open the settings that choose which collections appear

Fixed

• If the AI service is unavailable, you now see a clear message instead of being asked to try again
• On PCs that write decimals with a comma, amounts typed in the recipe editor and Kitchen Tools are read correctly. For example, 1.5 is no longer read as 15
• Clear filters now appears as soon as you pick a smart collection
• Removing a dietary tag such as “vegetarian” now takes the recipe out of that collection right away
• Fixed a crash that could happen when switching windows while the app was starting
• The Chef’s Pantry icon shows correctly in Alt+Tab

The first public release of Chef’s Pantry for Windows.

Import your recipes

• Import from any recipe website: paste a link and Chef’s Pantry pulls out the title, ingredients, steps and photo
• Paste recipe text, or take a photo of a recipe card or cookbook page, and AI turns it into a recipe
• Bring your library with you: Paprika, MasterCook (.mxp, .mx2, .mc2, .mz2), Recipe Keeper, Mela and Living Cookbook files
• Bulk import up to 25 links at once, with each recipe appearing as soon as it’s ready. If the AI service is busy, retry just the links that didn’t finish (Cloud + AI)

Cook

• Cook Mode: one step at a time, with automatic step timers and a screen that stays awake
• Hands-free: voice commands move between steps, and the app can read each step aloud
• Explain a step: ask what a technique means without leaving Cook Mode
• Scale servings and switch between US and metric measurements
• AI ingredient substitutions when you’re missing something (Cloud + AI)

Plan and shop

• Upcoming Recipes: line up what you’re cooking this week and build one combined shopping list
• Shopping list grouped by store aisle, with quantities scaled to your servings, quick-add staples and printing
• Take the list to the store: Share list shows a QR code. Scan it with your phone and the list opens in your phone’s browser, with no app or account needed. Untick each item as you buy it. The link works for 24 hours (Core and Cloud + AI)

Organize and find

• Collections with categories, plus Smart Collections such as Favorites, Recently Added, Quick Meals and Highly Rated
• Tags, cuisine filters and search that finds partial words and forgives typos
• Allergen alerts: set your household’s allergens once and every recipe that contains them is flagged

Kitchen tools

• Measurement conversion, baking pan conversion, leavener substitutions, air fryer and oven times, meat temperatures and food safety storage times
• Kitchen Notes for your own tips and reminders

Your app, your data

• Your recipes are stored on your own PC and work offline; AI features need an internet connection
• Seven color themes, including a high-contrast theme, each in light and dark versions
• Back up and restore your whole library
• Deleted recipes stay in Trash for 14 days, so you can restore them
• Updates: when a new version is ready, a banner says so. Nothing downloads until you click Update now

Requirements

• Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) or Windows 11, 64-bit
• A Mac version is planned