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AI is most useful when it removes friction, not judgment. In the kitchen, use it to: • turn ingredients into meal ideas • suggest substitutions • simplify a complicated recipe • build a grocery list • explain a cooking technique The cook still makes the decisions 👨🏻‍🍳

Open protocols don't matter because they're decentralized. They matter because ownership matters. Your recipes. Your identity. Your community. Those should move with you. That's why we're building on Nostr. ⚡

Some recipes become favorites. Others become community lore. Pizza Beans somehow became both. It started as a simple weeknight dinner. Now it's basically part of Zap Cooking history. Long live Pizza Beans. 🍕🫘

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Pizza Beans

A fast, family-friendly dinner that's as satisfying as it is simple. With just beans, marinara sauce, and cheese, you can have a bubbling, cheesy,...

What's the most unexpectedly good meal you've ever made?

One thing I've learned building on Nostr... People don't just want another app. They want to be part of building something. Every recipe shared. Every bug reported. Every feature request. It all moves Zap Cooking forward. Thanks for building with us. ❤️

We're not trying to replace the internet. We're trying to make one small corner of it better. A place where recipes belong to the people who create them. Where good cooks are rewarded. Where communities matter more than algorithms. If enough of us build places like that, the internet gets a little better. 🍳⚡

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Zap Cooking - Food is Open Source

A place where food culture can live openly and grow naturally. Share recipes, support creators directly, no algorithms or ads.

This Gochugaru Salmon with Crispy Rice stopped me mid-scroll. Sweet. Spicy. Crunchy. Exactly the kind of recipe that makes me want to cook instead of ordering takeout. 🍣

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Gochugaru Salmon With Crispy Rice

Gochugaru Salmon recipe from the NYT

What would you pair with it?

I don't think we're building a recipe app anymore. I think we're building the food layer of Nostr. Recipes. Communities. Meal planning. Nutrition. AI that actually helps. Lightning support. Open protocols. Still early. Still shipping. Food. Friends. Freedom. 🍳⚡

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Zap Cooking - Food is Open Source

A place where food culture can live openly and grow naturally. Share recipes, support creators directly, no algorithms or ads.

One of my favorite parts about building on Nostr is that communities form around things that actually matter to people. For us, that's food. Not engagement. Not algorithms. Just people sharing recipes they'll actually cook. Tonight's recommendation comes from the Zap Cooking community: 🌿 Zesty Dill Yogurt Sauce Simple. Fresh. One of those recipes you'll end up using on way more than you expected.

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Zesty Dill Yogurt Sauce

A creamy, zesty yogurt sauce with garlic, lemon, fresh dill, and olive oil. Similar to tzatziki, but without the cucumber.

If you're building on Nostr, I'd love to see what you're cooking this weekend. 🍳⚡

Food is better together

We simplified Zap Cooking membership into one honest offer. **Cook+ is $49/year or $4.99/month.** Sous Chef turns any link, photo, or wall of blog text into a clean recipe. Nourish scores every dish for real food, gut health, protein, and more. Cheffy helps answer your kitchen questions with generous monthly credits. No confusing tiers. No roadmap promises sold as features. Just useful tools built for food, community, and freedom. Pay with Lightning or card, and **save 5% when you pay with Bitcoin.** ⚡ Your recipes live on open protocols. They belong to you and stay with you, even if you leave. No ads. No tracking. No platform lock-in. Joining Cook+ is more than paying for features. It helps us grow the community, keep building on Nostr, and support the freedom tech we want to see in the world. Come cook with us. Help us grow. Be part of the change. For the early believers, Founders Club is limited to 21 lifetime seats. 6 are already taken.

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Zap Cooking - Food is Open Source

A place where food culture can live openly and grow naturally. Share recipes, support creators directly, no algorithms or ads.

19 new recipes in the last 3 weeks. Let’s pump these numbers. 🍳

We’re building something different with Zap Cooking. Open protocols. Real ownership. No ads. No selling your data. Just great food and the people who make it. A Zap Cooking membership isn’t just unlocking features. It’s helping build an open social experience for food where recipes, communities, and ideas belong to the people creating them. Membership includes growing features like Sous Chef, Cheffy, advanced meal planning, and everything we’re cooking up next. If you believe food should be open, social should be yours, and communities should own what they build, we’d love to have you with us. Come build the future of food. 🍳⚡ Food. Friends. Freedom.

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Zap Cooking - Food is Open Source

A place where food culture can live openly and grow naturally. Share recipes, support creators directly, no algorithms or ads.

Zap Cooking Android 1.3.5 is now live on Zapstore 🍳⚡ The biggest addition is the new My Kitchen meal planner. Plan your week, add ingredients from recipes to a grocery list, and keep your saved recipes, published recipes, and Nourish tools together in one place. This is version one, and we know there is much more to improve. We built it for you as a practical tool to make your culinary experience easier and better. We also listened to your feedback about conversations. Threads now have a new look that makes replies easier to read and navigate. You can clearly see which conversation you are in, who is replying to whom, and move through longer discussions without guessing or clicking around. We also improved Lightning payments, long posts, media, navigation, and the overall Android experience. Update here:

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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 ...

Food is Open Source. So are we. 🍳⚡️

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Nourish just leveled up on Zap Cooking. 🥦⚡ The foundation was already built. We just added estimated nutrition macros and made sure the infrastructure underneath it was sound. Every analyzed recipe now includes estimated nutrition per serving: 🔥 Calories 💪 Protein 🌾 Carbs 🥑 Fat Nourish uses AI to recognize the ingredients and estimate the nutrition values. From there, the calculation is simple: add everything together and divide by the number of servings. When a recipe is harder to estimate, we label it as a rough estimate instead of pretending the numbers are exact. Guidance, not gospel. We tested Nourish against a large set of recipes with published nutrition before releasing the update. Many of those recipes are now part of the Nourish catalog, so you can explore the results for yourself. The code is open source, the method is transparent, and the data lives on Nostr. Every analysis is published as a signed event to our Pantry relay and broadcast across multiple public relays. No account required. No nutrition data trapped inside a private database. Just portable, verifiable information built on an open protocol. That data also makes discovery easier: 💪 High protein 🔥 Under 600 calories 🌾 Low carb 🫒 No seed oils 🍬 No added sugar Filters can be combined, so you can find meals that are high protein and free from seed oils in just a couple of taps. Thanks to @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 for the recommendation to add the nutrition layer. The foundation was there. We added the macros and made sure it was built the right way. Try Nourish:

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Zap Cooking - Food is Open Source

A place where food culture can live openly and grow naturally. Share recipes, support creators directly, no algorithms or ads.

Builders: analyses are published as kind 30078 events with NIP 32 labels and signed by the Zap Cooking service key. Query: wss://pantry.zap.cooking No authentication required. Build something with it. That is the point. Built open. Built on Nostr. Built the way it should be. 🌿 Food is Open Source, and so are we.

Remember… “Anyone can cook!” 🧑🏻‍🍳🍲🐀

Dinner's wrapping up. What's one meal you made recently that you'll definitely make again? Share it on Zap Cooking and inspire someone else's next favorite recipe. 🍽️

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Zap Cooking - Food is Open Source

A place where food culture can live openly and grow naturally. Share recipes, support creators directly, no algorithms or ads.