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Cook Mode and the Shopping List: The Two Features on the Recipe Page

Kochen Cool29. Mai 2026

The most-repeated comment under our YouTube videos, week after week, is some version of "I just want the written recipe." The recipe pages answer that directly. Two buttons on each page do more: Cook mode and the shopping list. Both are quiet on the page until tapped. Here is what they do.

Cook mode

Cook mode is the button on the recipe page that turns the page into a hands-free guide for the bake. Tap it once. The screen stays awake while the dough rests and the loaf bakes, so the phone or tablet on the counter does not go dark mid-step. The instructions paginate, so the cook sees one step at a time instead of the full scroll. The timers in the recipe run inline, which matters most for the seed-gel breads. A psyllium-and-chia dough says "rest fifteen to twenty minutes" before it goes in the oven. That gel window is the step a busy kitchen forgets, and a flat loaf is the result. Tapping the timer in the step starts the countdown that finishes with a chime, so the rest gets its full window. The cook's hands stay on the dough. The kitchen tablet runs the rest.

The shopping list

The shopping list is the second button on the recipe page. Tap Save to list on the recipe and the ingredients land in a list the cook can open at the store or at the grocery aisle. Save a second recipe and the lists merge by ingredient, so two psyllium-husk recipes for the week's bake show up as one psyllium line in the aggregate list. Print and Servings adjuster sit next to the list button, in the same recipe-page header, for the cook who scales up or prefers paper.

Try it on the first bake

The 5-minute lentil bread for lowering blood sugar is a good first recipe to try Cook mode on, because the active work is concentrated and the timers actually matter to the bake. Tap Cook mode after measuring the ingredients out, and the rest of the bake walks itself through. The diabetic-friendly flaxseed cottage cheese bread sits in the same family and works the same way. The shopping list is one tap from either recipe page. Not medical advice. Your healthcare team has the full picture; we have the recipes.


Tested in our kitchen.