Welcome to Deglaze! Whether you're already using our app or just curious about what we do, this post will give you the full picture of how Deglaze can transform your cooking routine.

If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: Deglaze is a great place to store and organize recipes, but it’s much more than that. We built Deglaze from the ground up to help you cook more by making every step easier: from saving recipes to meal planning to grocery shopping to actually cooking. After interviewing hundreds of home cooks and over three years of full-time development, we're pretty confident that if you give Deglaze a real try, you'll find yourself cooking more, or at least saving time for the meals you do cook. We often hear from users that they can’t imagine going back to the “old way” of doing things. We hope you feel the same after a couple weeks.

We’d also like to introduce ourselves - We're Jacob and Angel. We’ve been longtime friends and are passionate home cooks. We initially started building Deglaze for ourselves because we were frustrated with clunky apps that just didn't work very well for real cooking workflows. After sharing the app with some friends and getting a great response, we decided to leave our jobs and do this full-time.

The rest of this post lays out the recipe (sorry) for cooking more with Deglaze.

1. Save Recipes from Anywhere

Deglaze makes it easy to organize all of your recipes in one place, with minimal effort. Save recipes from Reddit. Save recipes from TikTok. Save recipes from Instagram. Save recipes from blogs. Save recipes from cookbooks and photos. Add your own recipes. You get the picture.

Once you do this, it’s much easier to decide what’s for dinner. Rather than searching google, your email/social accounts/notes, etc., just open Deglaze and search there. If you get in the habit of adding recipes as you come across them, you’ll always have good options to choose from.

We use the latest AI models for best-in-class import accuracy, and it’s just a few taps to add any recipe. One nice thing about Deglaze versus some other apps out there is that we do all of the processing in the background, so you don’t have to stare at a “processing…” screen for 10 seconds.

Need some inspiration? You can follow your friends and top recipe developers and see a list of recipes in your feed. We also offer a search experience that features recipes from trusted sources and prioritizes your favorite recipe developers and publishers when you search. For example, if you follow Serious Eats and NYT Cooking and then search for “Lasagna”, you’ll see recipes from those sources first.

2. Organize (Or Let Us)

Once imported, our AI automatically organizes recipes into smart collections by course (mains, sides, desserts), type (pasta, soups, etc.), and more. For many people, this is all they need.

If you are the super-organized type, we also have a very flexible Collection feature - You can create your own collections, organize them into groups, and use filters to find your next meal by time, rating, collection, whether you've cooked it before, etc.

Either way, when it comes time to find a meal, the organization makes it easy. Want to find a vegetarian side dish that you’ve saved, but never made before, and that takes 45 minutes or less, and is in your “Must try” collection? In Deglaze, it’s just a few taps.

3. Create Grocery Lists in Seconds

The grocery list is one of Deglaze’s most powerful features. Even if you think you already have a system, try it for a week— there’s a good chance you’ll never go back. Here are some of the highlights:

• Add entire recipes—scaled to however many servings you want—in seconds.
• Quickly add individual items with smart autosuggestions that learn your shopping habits.
• Share a list with your household so everyone stays in sync. Updates appear instantly. Busy couples (especially with kids) often have one partner that plans and cooks, and another that shops. This makes it trivial.
• Items are automatically sorted by store section. If we get it wrong, you can override once and we’ll remember it next time.
• The in-store UI is fast, offline-friendly, and optimized so you don’t accidentally check off items.
• Send your grocery list to Instacart with just a couple taps to get groceries delivered

4. Flexible Meal Planning

Whether you're into formal meal planning or prefer a more casual approach, Deglaze has you covered.

If you like to assign meals to specific days, we have a calendar view for recipes as well as notes (for leftovers, eating out, etc.) so you can see everything in one place. For items on the calendar, we also track grocery status, so it’s easy to see at a glance what you need to shop for. Finally, your planned meals appear on your home screen for easy reference.

A more casual approach is to simply add recipes to the grocery list or tap “Start Cooking”. We will put these recipes at the top of your library so you don’t have to remember what you were planning to make - simply use the Deglaze shopping+cooking workflow, and they will always be there when you need them.

5. Cook!

When it's time to cook, Deglaze makes your time in the kitchen a little more peaceful. Just tap “Start Cooking” to start a cooking session. Here’s what you get:

• Your screen stays on automatically
• Ingredient checklists and selectable instructions help you track progress (and no ads!)
• Inline one-tap timers for any times specified in the recipe - they count down inline, and you can easily adjust them to add more time.
• A notes tab for tweaks, etc.
• At the end of the session, you can choose to save your activity and we’ll keep track of how often you’ve cooked it.
• You can optionally post the recipe to your feed so your followers can see what you’ve been making.

A cooking session sticks around until you explicitly end it and you can even start multiple recipes at once and switch between them with one tap (this is a lifesaver for Thanksgiving, dinner parties, etc.). Cooking Sessions are always pinned to the top of your recipe library, so it’s easy to get back to them.

Plan, Shop, and Cook Together With Household Features

One other thing we love about Deglaze is the household feature. You can share your recipe library, grocery list, meal plan, and even cooking sessions with people in your household. This is especially popular with busy families when one partner plans and cooks, and the other partner shops (or however your family breaks it down).

We Want to Hear from You!

We hope this has been a useful introduction to Deglaze and you give it a try. We're always eager for feedback - please don't hesitate to email us directly at help@deglaze.app. As a small team of home cooks ourselves, we genuinely read every piece of feedback and use it to make the app better.

Happy cooking! 🍳

Jacob & Angel

Founders, Deglaze

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