Viewing Recipes

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1. Recipe toolbar Recipe Actions
2. button Editing a Recipe
3. Photo Photo Gallery
4. Scale & Convert Scaling & Converting Ingredients
5. Crossed-off ingredients Crossing off Ingredients
6. Highlighted step Marking Directions
7. Timer link in a direction Timers
8. Pinned recipes Pinning Recipes

From the recipes screen, click on a single recipe in the list or images view in order to open it. From the recipes table view, double click a recipe in the listing to open it.

This is the main recipe view. The ingredients are displayed on the left, information about the recipe is displayed near the top, and the directions are displayed below. 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.

Recipe Actions

The toolbar above the recipe has the button on the left, the button on the right, and the recipe's other actions in the middle. The buttons show only icons; hover over a button to see its name.

Less common actions are placed under the button (three dots) to the right of the other buttons in the middle.

Printing Recipes

As described above, printing is accessed via the button in the recipe toolbar. You can also press Ctrl-P or go to File -> Print in the menu bar. The print dialog shows a live preview of the printed recipe on the left, and the print options on the right:

To choose a page range, or a setting only your printer's own dialog offers, click Print using the system dialog… below the options.

Timers

Timers are automatically detected in your recipe's directions and highlighted in blue. In order to start a timer, simply click on the highlighted time and press Start. The timer countdown will appear in the left sidebar.

Viewing timers - All of your active timers are displayed in the left sidebar, counting down live.

Adding a timer manually - From the left sidebar, click the Add Timer 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: you can either right-click on it and press Delete, or click on the timer itself and press Edit, and then choose Delete.

Editing timers - To change the name or time of a timer, click on the timer in the timers list and press Edit. You can also pause, resume and cancel the timer from this popup, and see the remaining duration of the timer.

When a timer finishes, Paprika plays an alarm sound and displays a Time's Up! alert. The alarm keeps sounding until you dismiss the alert.

Scaling & Converting Ingredients

Scaling - You can scale the ingredients of a recipe by clicking on the Scale & Convert button under the Ingredients heading.

When the ingredients scaling popover appears, select the amount you'd like to scale the ingredients by and then click Save. 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 dropdown in the same popover.

Crossing off Ingredients

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

Marking Directions

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

Pinning Recipes

You can pin active recipes to easily switch between them while you are cooking. To pin a recipe, click the button in the recipe toolbar, and choose Pin Recipe. You can also right-click a recipe in the recipes list and choose Pin Recipe, or simply drag a recipe from the list onto the Pinned Recipes group in the left sidebar.

Your pinned recipes will be displayed in the left sidebar. Click on any of these recipes to switch to them. 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, hover over the pinned recipe in the list and click the to un-pin the recipe. You can also right-click the pinned recipe and choose Unpin.

Photo Gallery

If there are photos associated with the recipe, you can click the thumbnail in the recipe view to display the photo gallery. The corner of the thumbnail shows a photo icon with the number of photos, or a link icon when the thumbnail opens a photo from the web instead. The photo gallery contains an ordered list of photos with names displayed at the top.

You can scroll the photos by using the arrow keys on your keyboard, or select a new photo by clicking the thumbnail at the bottom of the view.

To copy the current photo to the clipboard, or save it as a file, click the button in the upper right corner of the gallery and choose Copy or Save As….

You can close the photo gallery by pressing the ESC key on your keyboard or clicking the button in the upper left hand corner of the view.

Tip If both a photo link and recipe photos exist, the photo gallery will load and the link button in the upper right corner of the gallery can be used to load the linked source image from the website.

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