Judge whether food is safe
Not a disclaimer — a refusal. It cannot see, smell or measure your dish, and being usually right is not good enough when the failure mode is somebody getting ill.
Features
Everything between finding a dish and eating it.
And an honest note on the two things it will not do.
Bringing a recipe in
Search YouTube in the app
Find a video and read it without leaving.
Paste a cooking link
YouTube and most recipe pages can be prepared when you ask. Instagram, TikTok and Facebook save as links — RecipeMirror does not analyse those videos from the URL.
Upload your own video
Filmed yourself, or saved from Instagram, TikTok or another app.
Record them cooking
Film them at the hob. We watch and listen, then build the guide.
Someone explaining it
Mum, nan, a friend talking through the dish. We transcribe what they say.
Type it out
From a cookbook, a card, or one you know by heart.
Reading the source
Ingredients, steps and order
Separated properly, not guessed from line breaks.
The things nobody says
The colour it turns, the moment it comes off the heat.
What they never measured
Named, not filled in. "Two to three spoons" stays that — you decide, like at home.
Timestamps back to the source
Where the source has them — measured, not required.
Spanish, Hindi, Tamil
English beside the original, never instead of it. A French source stays in French the same way.
Cooking from it
One step at a time
On a dark screen you can read across a warm room.
Read aloud
Hands-free, in the source’s own language.
What goes wrong here
Surfaced before it does, from a base of common mistakes.
Timers from the source
Started from what the cook actually said.
Can I cook this now?
One number, from what you have in.
Around the dish
Calories Calculator
A photo names the foods. Amounts, and kcal per 100 g cooked, still come from you.
Open it →
Scale a recipe
By servings, or by what you have. Rounded to something a kitchen can measure.
Open it →
Pan matching
What to use instead, and what that costs you.
Rescue a dish
Mid-cook help, and a refusal where safety is involved.
Compare with the original
Only possible because the original was kept.
A closer look
Three things it does that a recipe cannot.
Energy and nutrition
Not another calorie counter.
A photo names the foods. Amounts stay empty until you type them or weigh the pan. Then it resolves those foods with a model and does every multiplication in code — so the number is arithmetic, not a guess dressed as one.
The part no photograph-of-your-dinner app can do: ask what the dish becomes if you change it, and get the swap with its cost attached.
Servings and amounts
Scale it, and know it still fits.
Rescale by portions or by what is actually in your fridge — 750 g of paneer, not “1.5×”. Amounts are rounded to something a kitchen can measure, and anything the source never stated stays unstated.
Then it checks the result against the pans you own, because a doubled curry in a 3 L pot is a problem you would otherwise find at the hob.
When it is going wrong
Help while the pan is still on.
Describe what has happened in your own words and get something to do about it in the next two minutes — backed by a base of the mistakes that actually ruin home cooking, with a model behind it for everything else.
And it refuses food-safety questions rather than reassure you. That refusal is the feature.
What it will not do
Estimate an amount from a video
Measured and abandoned: asked how much oil, the model says "a visible amount". Utensil identification works; amount estimation does not.
Adjust times for a different pan
That needs the base thickness, the hob and the depth of the food. A made-up multiplier would be believed because it looks like arithmetic.
Automatically analyse Instagram or TikTok videos
You can save those recipes to Saved to Cook. RecipeMirror cannot read the video from the link. Add the details yourself, or upload a copy you are allowed to use, then prepare.