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Sign up with email. Once you confirm your address, an empty recipe library awaits — start by adding your own or browsing the community catalogue.

Settings → Preferences. imkitchen avoids flagged ingredients in every generated list and warns you before importing a recipe that contains them.

Four sections: Kitchen (your recipe list and what to cook next), Recipes (your library), Groceries (shopping list), Settings.

Each page walks you through what it does the first time you open it. Replay one any time:

• Kitchen
• Recipes
• Cooking
• Groceries
• Settings

imkitchen shuffles your collection against a handful of rules — cuisine variety, dietary restrictions, accompaniment pairing — then assembles a list in about two seconds. You can regenerate until you're happy.

Yes: compose a dish. A dish is one main course with the sides, sauces, starter, dessert or drink you want with it. Generation picks your dishes first and completes them from your preferences; you can also add a whole dish to your list by hand from the Dishes page. Dishes →

Generation replaces the whole list: recipes you added by hand are dropped, checked groceries are cleared and cooking progress resets. Add recipes back from any recipe page.

The list is simply shorter — a recipe never appears twice. Add or import a few more favourites and regenerate.

When you mark a main as accepting accompaniments and pick allowed types (rice, pasta, bread…), generation pairs them automatically — curry gets rice, pasta gets bread.

No. Generation is non-deterministic — regenerate until you find an arrangement you like.

Six categories: appetizer, main course, dessert, accompaniment, beverage and condiment. Each generated meal pairs a main course with one of each optional type enabled in your preferences.

Recipes → Import. Drag-drop JSON files (max 10 MB, up to 20 per batch). The importer validates each entry and reports successes, duplicates, and failures.

No — dietary tags must be set explicitly on every recipe to be respected when generating.

Yes. Imported recipes live in your library like the ones you created and can be edited, favourited, or shared.

Items are grouped automatically using our ingredient-to-aisle mapping. Reorder aisles to match your favourite store's layout.

When two recipes share an ingredient, quantities are summed and units converted where possible. Ambiguous merges surface a warning you can resolve.

Open the list, tap Share, choose Copy text, share sheet, or email.

While creating or editing a recipe, toggle Share with community. Shared recipes appear in the public search and other users can favourite them.

Your list keeps a reference to the recipe, so the author's edits show up the next time you open it. A recipe the author deletes simply drops out of your list and groceries.

Yes. Both free and Premium users can rate and review. Low-rated recipes are demoted in community search.