That’s a wrap on our Bitcoin Pizza Day giveaway. 🍕⚡ We’ve selected all 10 winners and the sats have been sent. Huge thanks to everyone who participated. There were so many great entries, memes, pizzas, food takes, and conversations throughout the event. We genuinely appreciate all of the engagement, renotes, comments, likes, and zaps. This is what makes building on open protocols fun. Stay hungry. 🍕⚡ View quoted note →

Soooo many good submissions. 🍕⚡ Help us choose the winners. Scoring is based on engagement directly on the pizza note you are voting for: 🔁 Renote = 5 points 💬 Comment = 5 points ❤️ Like = 1 point ⚡ Every 10 sats zapped to the note = 1 point We’ll total the scores tomorrow and select 10 winners to receive 10,000 sats each. Food. Bitcoin. Open protocols. Stay hungry. 🍕⚡ View quoted note →

🍕⚡ Bitcoin Pizza Day Giveaway ⚡🍕 Bitcoin was once used to buy two pizzas. Now we’re using it to celebrate food, community, and the open web. To celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day, we’re giving away: ⚡ 10 prizes of 10,000 sats each ⚡ How to enter: 🍕 Post your pizza ⚡ Tag Zap Cooking 🧱 Share a Bitcoin, Nostr, food, or freedom-tech take 🔥 Memes, homemade pizza, bad pizza, elite pizza — all welcome We’ll pick 10 posts and zap each winner 10k sats. Proof of cook. Value for value. Stay hungry. 🍕⚡

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Zappy is leveling up. 👨‍🍳⚡ What started as a fun AI recipe tool is evolving into something much bigger. We’re upgrading Zappy into Chef B — a smarter, more capable kitchen companion built directly into the Zap Cooking ecosystem. This is the fun part of building in the open. You ship. You learn. You improve. Then you keep building. Every week we’re tightening workflows, improving UX, refining outputs, and connecting more pieces of the stack together: ⚡ Bitcoin 🤖 AI 🍳 Food 🌎 Open protocols Small improvements compound over time. Kaizen. We’re still early, but the direction is becoming more obvious every day. Stay hungry

Most platforms optimize for attention. We’re optimizing for connection. Zap Cooking is built on open protocols because food has always been social. Recipes get passed down. Techniques get shared. Communities form around tables, not algorithms. That’s why we’re building: 🥘 Recipes ⚡ Native payments 🤖 AI cooking tools 🛒 Open marketplaces 🧑‍🍳 Real communities 🔓 User-owned identity and data No walled gardens. No lock-in. Just people building, sharing, and cooking together on an open network. The internet feels better when the incentives are aligned. Stay hungry. 🍳

Most food apps optimize for attention. We’re optimizing for participation. 🍳⚡️ Cook. Share. Learn. Earn. Repeat. No ads fighting for your attention. No algorithm deciding what matters. Just people, recipes, community, and tools that actually help you make food. The internet forgot the kitchen. We’re bringing it back. Stay hungry. 🍽️

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Zap Cooking - Food. Friends. Freedom.

A place where food culture can live openly and grow naturally. Share recipes, support creators directly, no algorithms or ads.

Zap Cooking is growing because of the people supporting it. 🍳⚡️ Every membership helps us continue building: • Better AI tools like Sous Chef & Zappy • Lightning-native experiences • Recipe packs & cookbook exports • Marketplace + creator tools • Better relays, groups, polls, and community features • A food platform built on the open web, not controlled by ads or algorithms When you become a member, you’re not just unlocking features. You’re helping prove a different kind of internet can exist. No invasive ads. No spyware. No fighting algorithms for visibility. Just food, community, Bitcoin, and building in the open. If you believe in what we’re building, now’s the time to join us. ❤️ https://zap.cooking/membership Stay hungry. 🍽️⚡️

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🔥 The internet taught you to scroll. 🍳 We’re here to teach you to cook. Zap Cooking isn’t just recipes. It’s your kitchen, your identity, your money — all in one place. No noise. No algorithms telling you what to eat. Just real food, real people, and tools that actually help: 📸 Snap a recipe → formatted instantly 🔗 Paste a link → clean, usable recipe 🤖 Don’t know what to cook? Zappy’s got you 🥗 Want better food? Nourish scores it And when you make something great? You don’t just post it… You own it. You share it. You earn from it (money). This is what food on the open web looks like. Stay hungry. 🍽️⚡️

Cook once. Share everywhere. You can now export your recipe packs on Zap Cooking as a clean, printable PDF cookbook. 📚 Your recipes, your format, all in one place. Ready to send to friends, family, or keep on your counter while you cook. We’re opening it up for you to try. Use code FREEPACK and export your first cookbook today. Build your pack. Export it. Share it. Stay hungry 🍳⚡️

Check out this recipe pack from @AliceA 🤗👇 https://zap.cooking/s/ht3vup

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Introducing a new way to share on Zap Cooking 🍳 You can now create and share a Recipe Pack made up of the recipes you’ve posted. It’s your collection. Your style. Your cooking. Only you can publish your own recipe pack, turning everything you’ve shared into one clean, sharable view. And if you want to take it a step further… You can turn that Recipe Pack into a printable cookbook 📚 Unlock it for 2100 sats ⚡ and download a PDF that’s ready to print, gift, or keep. We’re building this in the open, learning as we go, and giving you better ways to create and share what you cook. Stay Hungry.

@Bread and Toast is back in the kitchen as a featured sponsor on Zap Cooking. This is a Nostr original. Real #artstr. Weekly creative output, cross-collabs, weird internet energy, and the kind of food-adjacent culture that makes this place fun. Give them a follow. Check out what they’re making. Support the people building, creating, and showing up here. Want to sponsor Zap Cooking or learn more? 👇 https://zap.cooking/sponsors

Now a long requested feature is live on Zap Cooking 🍳 We brought you Recipe Packs to share. Now you can take it a step further. Turn your Recipe Pack into a printable cookbook 📚 Customize it your way: * Remove images * Add context * Tweak the format * Make it your own This is about taking what you’ve curated and turning it into something real. Something you can save, share, or even print. All part of the growing depth of features inside your favorite Nostr cooking community at Zap Cooking ⚡ Try it out today. Start organizing your favorites and see what you can create. We’ve got discount codes available if you want to give it a run. Just DM us and we’ll send one your way 🤝 View quoted note →

Introducing Recipe Packs 🍳 Curate your favorite recipes, bundle them together, and share them with your friends, your family, or anyone on Nostr. We’re building this out in the open and figuring it out as we go. But we believe this is the way. Build the tools and let the creators create. Recipe Packs are simple. Save what you love, organize it your way, and share it forward. We built Recipe Packs right into the feed, made them fully shareable, and gave users more control over how they manage their social experience. Because it’s Nostr, we built zaps right into it ⚡ You can zap a Recipe Pack and support the curator directly. Support the signal. Value for value. Check it out 👉 https://zap.cooking/packs This is part of a bigger idea. Recipes, money, and identity living on the open internet 🌍 We’re putting in the work, learning along the way, and building something special here. Appreciate everyone who’s been along for the ride 🙏 More to come.