Recipe Development Studio

Refine every
recipe.

Skillet is a recipe development studio — iterate through drafts and revisions until it’s right.

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You’ll collaborate with AI to refine your recipe — this is just the first draft.

Your recipe draft will appear here.

Choose a mode and generate to get started.

01

Draft from a prompt

Describe what you want to cook. The studio generates a structured first draft — title, ingredients, method.

02

Cook and take notes

Enter Cook Mode — check off steps, add notes in the moment, and log results when you’re done.

03

Refine into revisions

Use your cook notes and AI suggestions to generate a new version. Compare changes side-by-side.

04

Publish and share

Export as SEO-ready HTML or Markdown, publish to WordPress, or copy ingredients for nutrition tools.

05

Organize and keep building

Save recipes, track skills, build menus, and explore cuisines through guided Journeys.

The Workbench

Every tool a serious cook needs.

Skillet is more than recipes. It’s a complete workbench — draft, cook, log, refine, and plan with intention.

Cook Mode

Step away from the screen. Stay on track.

Cook Mode transforms a recipe into a focused, hands-free workspace. Check off ingredients and steps, add notes as you go, and let the screen stay awake. When you’re done, log the cook with one tap.

  • Step-by-step checkable instructions with per-step timers
  • Add notes on any step — capture adjustments in the moment
  • Live elapsed timer and completion tracking
  • Minimize and resume later — your progress is saved
Cook Mode
18:42
Ingredients
Instructions · 3/6

Season short ribs generously and let sit 30 minutes.

Sear in batches until deeply browned on all sides.

3

Add onion, garlic, and tomato paste. Cook until darkened.

Fond was excellent — extra 30s on the paste

4

Deglaze with red wine and reduce by a third.

Sous Chef— “How do I know when it’s done?”
Recipe Versioning

Every iteration preserved.

Recipes aren’t static. Each revision is saved as a numbered version so you can compare changes, trace your thinking, and always know what worked.

  • Side-by-side version comparison with ingredient and step diffs
  • Label any version — mark the ones worth keeping
  • Generate a new version with AI suggestions from your cook notes
  • Full history: never lose a variation again
Versions/Braised Short Ribs
v3
Balanced. Ready to share.Current
Feb 28
v2
Refined seasoning, lighter texture
Feb 14
v1
First attempt — too dense
Jan 30
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Publishing Tools

From kitchen to blog in one click.

Export your finished recipes as SEO-optimized HTML with schema.org structured data, portable Markdown, or publish directly to WordPress as a draft. Copy cleaned ingredients to paste into nutrition calculators. Your work stays yours — publishable anywhere.

  • SEO-clean HTML export with embedded JSON-LD recipe schema
  • Portable Markdown for Ghost, Substack, and static sites
  • One-click WordPress draft publishing via REST API
  • Cleaned ingredient export for nutrition calculators
Publishing Tools/Braised Short Ribs

Export HTML

Semantic HTML with JSON-LD schema

Download

Export Markdown

For Ghost, Substack, static sites

Download

Copy for Nutrition Tools

Cleaned ingredient list

Copy

WordPress

myblog.com · Connected

Publish Draft
Last published Feb 28 · v3
Cuisine Journeys

A guided path through a cuisine’s foundations.

Journeys are structured five-step progressions through a cuisine. Each step builds on the last — start with the fundamentals, finish with confidence. Steps unlock as you cook, not just as you read.

  • Five courses, five techniques, one deliberate progression
  • Steps unlock only after the previous is cooked and logged
  • Each step focuses on a specific technique — dashi, emulsions, braises
  • AI-generated or hand-crafted journey paths

Journey

Japanese Foundations

2 / 5

Dashi & Miso Soup

Focus: Dashi preparation

Complete

Tamagoyaki

Focus: Egg technique

Complete
3

Teriyaki Salmon

Focus: Glaze & timing

Open Recipe
4

Tonkatsu

Focus: Frying fundamentals

Locked
5

Ramen from Scratch

Focus: Long broth building

Locked
Menu Planning

Plan the full picture.

Assemble courses from your recipe collection, total your times, and think through the flow before you light the stove. Menus include aggregated shopping lists, execution plans, and their own Cook Mode.

  • Compose starters, mains, sides, desserts, and drinks
  • Aggregated shopping list with scaling controls
  • Execution plan — write your timeline before you begin
  • Menu Cook Mode for multi-recipe coordination

Menu

Saturday Dinner Party

1 h 20 min

Total Prep

3 h 45 min

Total Cook

4

Courses

StarterBurrata with Roasted Beets25 min
MainBraised Short Ribs3 h 15 min
SideRoasted Root Vegetables45 min
DessertOlive Oil Cake1 h 10 min
Cook ModeShopping List

Versions per recipe

3

Export formats

5

Steps per journey

1

Kitchen. Yours.

Cook with intention.

Stop losing recipes to screenshots and bookmarks. Start building a body of work — draft, cook, log, refine, repeat.