We’re not trying to turn every cook into a Bitcoin expert. We’re trying to make Bitcoin useful enough that you don’t need to be one. Find something valuable. Support the person who shared it. Keep going. The payment technology should disappear into the experience. ⚡

Some recipes answer the question “What does this go on?” with: Yes. Steak. Chicken. Vegetables. Whatever hits the grill next. Make a jar once and keep finding excuses to use it. NM Chile Co. Chile Rub

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NM Chile Co. Chile Rub 🌶️

Use this spice rub on anything and everything from steak to chicken to vegetables!

A simple grocery habit: Don’t start with the store. Start with your kitchen. See what you already have. Plan around a few of those ingredients. Then buy what’s missing. Less waste. Less spending. Fewer forgotten ingredients staring back at you next Saturday.

There’s a stage in building where individual features start becoming a system. Meal planning connects to groceries. Cheffy connects to My Kitchen. Bitcoin connects to community. Android leads toward iOS. That’s the stage Zap Cooking is entering now. The pieces are starting to connect

Eight ingredients. One pan. Cut them into squares and leave them on the counter. Then begin the experiment of seeing whether any remain by dinner. Apple Snack Squares

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Apple Snack Squares

Apple Snack Squares . 8 ingredients including 2 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 3/4 cup vegetable oil.

Simplification isn’t removing capability. It’s hiding complexity until you actually need it. Powerful tools underneath. A clean experience on top. That’s how we’re approaching cooking tools, AI, Bitcoin, and the rest of Zap Cooking. We simplify your cooking experience.

Here’s where meal planning gets interesting: Tell Cheffy how you want to eat. Build the week. Adjust the meals. Move what you need to the grocery list. Then go live your life. AI gets useful when it starts removing the boring steps between intention and action.

One of the highest-return ten minutes you can spend in a kitchen: Make pickled red onions. Tacos. Sandwiches. Eggs. Salads. Bowls. Anything that needs acidity, crunch, or a little color suddenly gets better.

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Pickled Red Onions

Quick and easy pickle for red onions. Great on tacos, sandwiches, and anything else that needs a little tang.

Open source replaces one kind of promise with something better: Inspection. You don’t have to believe what we say about the software. The code is there. Read it. Question it. Learn from it. Build with it. What isn’t sitting in the repository is our reputation, values, community, and the work required to earn trust

The iOS app is getting closer. 🍎 We’ve made a lot of progress over the past few weeks and the pieces are starting to come together. There’s still work ahead before we release it, but we’re excited about where it’s going. Android is live. iOS is coming. And we keep building.

Potato salad without mayonnaise? Absolutely. Warm potatoes, vinegar, and enough acidity to make it work next to just about anything you put on the table. German Potato Salad

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German Potato Salad

A tangier alternative to a traditional creamy potato salad. Best served warm. A perfect side for a winter supper.

A backup feature should be boring. So should restoring it. Tap. Done. That’s the experience we want around Bitcoin inside Zap Cooking. The technology underneath can be sophisticated. Using it doesn’t have to be. We simplify your Bitcoin experience.

Spreading the word. ⚡️🍳 We got to demo Zap Cooking at Startup Day Guadalajara with @PlebLab ⚡️🇲🇽 Food. Community. Nostr. Bitcoin. We showed how Zap Cooking brings recipes, social discovery, and peer-to-peer Bitcoin support into one experience. The goal is simple: make cooking more useful, more social, and more connected, while giving creators a better way to earn directly from the people who value what they make. Still building. Still sharing. Still growing the network. Full demo:

If you haven’t checked out Zap Cooking on Zapstore lately, the experience keeps growing. 🤖 Cheffy in My Kitchen 🍳 Recipes and food discovery 🗓️ Meal planning ⚡ Bitcoin built in 👥 Social cooking Come see where we're heading

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Zap Cooking — Zapstore

Zap Cooking is a food-first social experience built around food and community. Discover and publish recipes, share food, plan meals, build grocery ...

September 1 feels like permission. Cold brew. Pumpkin cream. No drive-thru line. No seasonal markup. Fall can begin now. 🎃☕ Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew

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Recipe

A recipe shared on zap.cooking - Food is Open Source

There’s a hidden cost to asking: “What are we having for dinner?” Every single night. Meal planning removes a few of those decisions before the week gets busy. Cheffy can help plan your meals, organize the schedule, and build the grocery list. Good habits are easier when the system around them helps.

Something encouraging is happening quietly at Zap Cooking: Membership is growing. Every new Cook+ member gives us another signal that people see value in what we’re building. So we keep reinvesting that support into the product. More tools. Better experiences. More building. Thank you to everyone joining us early.

A good recipe recommendation sometimes comes down to this: The person who shared it says it’s one of their favorite dishes. That’s enough for us. Peppers, rice, spice, and plenty of comfort. 🇹🇷 Turkish Stuffed Peppers

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Turkish Stuffed Peppers 🫑

One of my favourite dishes.

Cheffy has a new home. We just released Cheffy inside My Kitchen on Android. Instead of AI living off to the side, we’re bringing it closer to where you plan, organize, and cook. The goal isn’t more AI. It’s fewer steps between a question and a useful answer. We simplify your cooking experience

What are we actually trying to simplify? 🍳 Deciding what to cook 🛒 Planning what to buy 🤖 Getting useful help ⚡ Using Bitcoin 👥 Sharing food with other people Different technologies underneath. A simpler experience on top. We simplify your cooking experience. We simplify your Bitcoin experience.