About Cookbooker

What is Cookbooker?

Cookbooker helps you rate, review and search through recipes from your cookbooks, food magazines, and favourite websites and food blogs. It's a personal recipe search engine combined with a community of fellow cookbook and cooking enthusiasts.

The web is full of recipe ratings and reviews — but almost all of them are for recipes found online, and restricted to individual food blogs and websites. The millions of recipes locked inside physical cookbooks and magazines have largely been left out of the conversation. Cookbooker fixes that.

How does it work?

Search for a cookbook or magazine you own, or a website you love, and add it to your bookshelf. Browse its recipes, leave ratings and reviews, and see what other members have tried. No account required to browse — create one when you're ready to build your bookshelf and contribute.

• Build a personal bookshelf of the cookbooks and magazines you own
• Track which recipes you've tried and rate them
• Read honest reviews from other members before committing to a long cook
• Discover great new cookbooks, magazines and websites through the community
• Never lose track of a favourite recipe again

Why Cookbooker?

Cookbooker was born in 2009 out of a simple frustration: I had a bookshelf full of cookbooks with no easy way to remember which recipes were worth making again — or to find out which ones were worth trying in the first place. Thumbing through post-it-note-covered pages looking for that one recipe felt like it shouldn't be this hard.

Since launching, Cookbooker has grown into a community of people sharing their love of good cookbooks and good cooking. Family and work came along and I took a few years off from actively developing the site, but now it's back as a modern, actively developed platform — rebuilt from the ground up to serve that community better.

Support Cookbooker

We've all seen how awful modern websites can be; ad banners, pop-ups and newsletter sign-up requests block your view and make it hard to find the content you came for. I want Cookbooker to avoid that. So we're not joining the big ad networks, and we don't sell user data to third parties. Instead, we rely on the support of our community to keep the site running and growing.

If you like the site and find it useful, consider supporting it through Ko-fi with a small donation. Your support helps cover hosting costs and allows us to keep improving the site. Thank you for being part of the Cookbooker community!

Is it free?

Yes, completely. Cookbooker is free to use and the core tools — your bookshelf, recipe reviews, and community access — will always be free.