Before putting something on your grocery list, ask:
What am I actually planning to make with this?
It’s a tiny question that can reduce waste, save money, and make the grocery trip much more useful.
A grocery list gets better when it starts with meals instead of ingredients.
One of our favorite things about Nostr is opening the feed and seeing food from completely different parts of the world.
So, wherever you are:
What are you eating today?
Photo, recipe, breakfast, lunch, dinner — doesn’t matter.
Show us your corner of the food world. 🌎🍳
Cheffy is now inside My Kitchen on Android. 🤖🍳
Need a substitution?
Trying to figure out what you can make with what you have?
Want help planning the week?
Ask Cheffy where you’re already doing the work.
AI becomes a lot more useful when it stops feeling like a separate destination.
Some recipes carry more than ingredients.
This one was taught to the author’s father by his mother, who was born in Sweden.
That kind of recipe doesn’t need reinvented.
It needs passed along.
Authentic Swedish Pancakes
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Authentic Swedish Pancakes
This Swedish pancakes recipe was taught to my father by his mother, who was born in Sweden.
You don’t need to be a chef to have something worth sharing about food.
Maybe it’s a family recipe.
A shortcut that works.
Something you made for the first time.
Or just dinner on a Monday.
We want Zap Cooking to feel like a place where showing up is enough.
Food. Friends. Freedom.
What are we working on at Zap Cooking?
🍳 Making cooking easier
🤖 Putting Cheffy where it’s useful
🛒 Connecting meal plans to groceries
⚡ Making Bitcoin simpler
🍎 Bringing iOS closer to launch
👥 Growing the community and Cook+
🛠️ Continuing to ship
A lot of technology.
One simple goal:
We simplify your cooking experience.
The first crêpe is rarely beautiful.
That’s okay.
It belongs to the cook.
After that: thin, foldable, endlessly customizable, and surprisingly simple.
Straight from a French culinary school. 🇫🇷
French Pancakes (Crêpes)
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French pancakes (Crêpes)
This is the recipe from the French culinary school.
A better week can start with three meals.
Not seven.
Pick three things you know you’ll actually make.
Let Cheffy help fill the schedule and build the grocery list.
Leave room for leftovers, plans changing, and ordering pizza.
A useful plan should create freedom, not another obligation.
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.
