How Recipes Are Organized
Ressup organizes your recipes using a multi-dimensional system: a single recipe can appear in multiple categories simultaneously. For example, a pancake recipe might appear under Breakfast (meal time), Main (dish type), and American (cuisine) - all at the same time.
Categories on the Home Screen
The home screen presents your recipes through several browsing lenses:
Meal Time
Browse recipes by when they're typically eaten:
- Breakfast - Morning meals and brunch items
- Lunch - Midday meals and light fare
- Dinner - Evening meals and hearty dishes
- Snack - Quick bites and between-meal treats
Dish Type
Browse by what role the dish plays in a meal:
- Starter - Appetizers and first courses
- Main - Primary dishes and entrées
- Side - Accompaniments and side dishes
- Sauces - Sauces, condiments, and dressings
- Baking - Breads, pastries, and oven bakes
- Dessert - Sweet endings
- Drink - Beverages, smoothies, cocktails
- Other - Catchall when a recipe does not match the types above (for example, some mixed or uncategorized dishes)
Cuisine
Browse by culinary origin:
- Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Indian, American, Japanese, Thai, French, Greek, Mediterranean, Other
A-Z
A simple alphabetized list of every recipe in your collection. Useful when you know the name and just want to find it quickly.
Test Kitchen
Test Kitchen is a dedicated list under Home > TOOLS for recipes you mark as in development in the editor. It is the fastest way to see every work-in-progress dish in one place.
Those recipes also appear in Meal Time, Dish Type, Cuisine, and A-Z lists when their classifications match, and in Home search. Clearing the Test Kitchen toggle removes them from the Test Kitchen list only; classifications control where they appear in browse views.
Automatic Classification
When you create a recipe, Ressup automatically classifies it based on the title and ingredients using an on-device keyword matching engine. For example, a recipe titled "Spaghetti Carbonara" with ingredients like "pasta" and "pancetta" would be automatically classified as Italian cuisine and a Main dish.
Automatic classification is just a suggestion - you can always override it by manually editing the classifications in the Recipe Editor.
Tags
Beyond the built-in categories, you can create custom tags to organize recipes however you like. Examples:
- "Weeknight Dinner"
- "Holiday"
- "Gluten-Free"
- "Kid-Friendly"
- "Under 30 Minutes"
Tags appear as colored labels on recipe detail pages and can help you filter and find recipes quickly.
Searching
On Home, search filters your whole library. Inside a category or Test Kitchen / A-Z list, search narrows that list. You can also use Siri: say "Find recipe" and Siri will search by name or ingredients.
Recipe Detail Page
Tap any recipe to view its full detail page, which shows:
- Title, description, difficulty, time, and servings
- A servings stepper - Adjust displayed servings to scale ingredient amounts on the fly (Cooking Mode and exports can use this scaled session)
- Tags (with color coding)
- Recipe photos and videos
- Full ingredient list (displayed in your preferred units and sort order from Settings)
- Step-by-step instructions with cooking methods, times, step-specific ingredients, and step media
From here, you can Start Cooking, Share, Export, Duplicate, or Edit the recipe.
Trash
When you delete a recipe, it moves to the Trash rather than being permanently removed. From the Trash (accessible via the menu), you can:
- Restore - Bring a recipe back to your collection.
- Delete permanently - Remove a recipe for good (with confirmation).