Every recipe here now says how many people actually cooked it

Search for a recipe today and you will find a hundred versions of it, most of them written by a machine, none of them made by anybody.

That is the honest state of recipes on the internet in 2026. Ratings can be bought. Saves and pins measure intention, not dinner. The photos are frequently of a different dish entirely.

So we started publishing a number nobody can fake.

Cooked 40 times by 12 people

On every public recipe page, you will now see how many times it has actually been cooked, by how many different people — and, once enough of them have said, what share would make it again.

There is no way to manufacture that. It needs real people in real kitchens logging real dinners. You cannot buy it, scrape it or generate it.

We publish it in the page's structured data too, using schema.org's CookAction, so when an assistant is deciding which recipe to recommend, it can weigh a count of actual cooks instead of a star rating that means nothing.

What we deliberately do not publish

No star ratings. Turning a thumbs-up into 4.7 stars invents a precision nobody gave us, and an average drawn from three opinions is how a site's data stops being trusted. We publish counts. Counts are facts.

Nothing until it means something. A recipe cooked once says "Cooked 1 time" — not "by 1 person", which just means the owner, and makes a recipe look abandoned. No percentage appears until at least five people have given an opinion.

Never somebody else's photograph. When you save a recipe from a link we cache the source's thumbnail so you can see it on your copy. That image is never shown to anyone else, anywhere — not on public pages, not in Discover, not on a share card. The only photos we show publicly are ones a person took themselves, or ones a creator has given us.

Why a creator should care

If you make recipes, the usual deal is this: an aggregator takes your work, ranks it, serves it, and you get nothing — not the traffic, and increasingly not even the credit, because your name falls off somewhere between your kitchen and the answer somebody gets.

Here your name travels with the recipe into the structured data, into what assistants read, and onto every card anyone shares. And now the count travels with it too.

"Cooked 40 times by 12 people" is a sentence about your recipe that no algorithm gave you and no competitor can copy. It is just true.

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