Viewing Recipes

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1. Recipe toolbar Recipe Actions
2. button Editing a Recipe
3. Photo Photo Gallery
4. Ingredients and Directions Viewing Recipes
5. Scale & Convert Scaling & Converting Ingredients
6. Crossed-off ingredient Crossing off Ingredients
7. Pin button Pinning Recipes
8. Timer button Timers

From the recipes screen, tap on a recipe in the listing in order to open the recipe.

This is the main recipe view. Information about the recipe is displayed near the top, the ingredients are displayed on the left, and the directions are displayed to the right. The description will be displayed above the directions and the notes will be displayed below the directions. Any nutritional information, including a Nutrition Facts label, will appear below the ingredients.

On iPhone, the recipe shows one column at a time: use the Ingredients / Directions switch under the header to change between them. The switch stays at the top of the screen as you scroll.

The header shows the recipe's cookbook and categories, as in My Cookbook › Dinner, Italian. If the list is too long to fit, tap the arrow at its end to see every category.

Recipe Actions

The toolbar contains several actions you can perform with the recipe:

Less common actions are placed under the button to the right of the other buttons.

Printing Recipes

As described above, printing is accessed via the button in the recipe toolbar. Printing requires an AirPrint-enabled printer. Paprika 4 offers an expanded set of options you can configure for printing, grouped under Print Options, Card Options, Recipe Options, and Photo Options. Options that don't apply to your choices are hidden. When you're ready, tap Next to print.

Timers

Timers are automatically detected in your recipe's directions and highlighted. In order to start a timer, simply tap on the highlighted time and press .

Viewing timers - Running timers are displayed in the recipe's lower toolbar while you cook, and in the Main Menu sidebar when it is fully expanded.

Adding a timer manually - Tap the timer button at the right end of the recipe's lower toolbar to open the Timers list, and then tap the button. You can choose a name for the timer. Once you have selected a time, press Start to begin the timer.

Removing timers - Timers are automatically removed once they have elapsed. If you would like to manually remove a timer, swipe left across it in the sidebar's timers list and delete it.

Editing timers - To change the name or time of a timer, tap on the timer. You can also pause, resume and cancel the timer from this screen, and see the remaining duration of the timer.

Scaling & Converting Ingredients

Scaling - You can scale the ingredients of a recipe by tapping the Scale & Convert button next to the Ingredients heading.

When the ingredients scaling popup appears, select the amount you'd like to scale the ingredients by and they will change automatically. The scale button will update to display the current recipe scale.

The amount to scale can be entered as a whole number, decimal, or fraction (ex: 3, 0.25, 1/3).

If you add a scaled recipe to the grocery list, the grocery list items will preserve the ingredients scaling.

Converting - You can convert ingredients units from standard (US) units to metric or reset them to their original units by using the Convert Units option in the same popup.

Crossing off Ingredients

When you are cooking, you may find it useful to cross off ingredients once you have used them. Simply tap the desired ingredient in order to cross it off. (Tap again to un-cross it.)

Marking Directions

You can also highlight the current step of your directions by tapping on it to help keep your place.

Ingredient Substitutions

Missing an ingredient? Tap the button in the recipe toolbar and choose Ingredient Substitutions. Paprika lists the recipe's ingredients. Tap one you don't have, and Paprika suggests one or two substitutes, each with an adjusted amount where one is needed and a short reason it works in this recipe. Tap the ingredient again to clear it.

Pinning Recipes

You can pin active recipes to easily switch between them while you are cooking. To pin a recipe, tap the button in the recipe toolbar, and choose Pin Recipe.

Your pinned recipes are displayed in the Main Menu sidebar when it is fully expanded, and buttons for one or more of your pinned recipes also appear in the lower toolbar of the recipe screen — so you can hop between the dishes you are cooking with a single tap. When a recipe is pinned, Paprika will keep track of the ingredients you have crossed off and the current directions you have highlighted, so you don't lose your place.

When you're done cooking, swipe left across the pinned recipe in the sidebar to un-pin the recipe.

Photo Gallery

If there are photos associated with the recipe, you can tap the thumbnail next to the recipe name — or any photo embedded in the recipe text — to display the photo gallery. The photo gallery contains an ordered list of photos with names displayed at the top. Swipe left and right to move between photos, and tap the button to close the gallery.

Use the button in the upper right of the gallery to open the share sheet for the currently displayed photo, where you can save it to your photo library or send it to another app. The button appears once the photo has downloaded.