Food culture is humanity’s original open source project.

People used to say social networking was only for posting pictures of your lunch. Well, we took that one seriously. Check out the #OnlyFood toggle of the Zap Cooking feed, where you'll find inspired lunch ideas from all over the world. From burgers to ramen to schnitzel, Nostr loves food, and we are here for it.

Find your next meal on Zap Cooking 🍳 ⚡️ https://zap.cooking/recipes

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Meet Cheffy. Your kitchen partner. Cheffy understands the assignment. He is helpful, practical, and built specifically for Zap Cooking. Ask him what to make, tell him what ingredients you have, swap an ingredient, work through a recipe, or get help when you do not feel like turning dinner into a whole project. He can also take a recipe and convert it into a Zap Cooking recipe post, ready to publish or save in your drafts for later. He is here to help you cook, not lecture you about it. Cheffy is live now on Zap Cooking. Give it a try.

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Hungry? Not for another social network. For better recipes. Better food. Better conversations. Share a recipe. Discover something new. Support creators directly with Bitcoin. No ads chasing you around the internet. Just food culture. ⚡️ zap.cooking #Foodstr #Bitcoin #Nostr #FoodCulture #ZapCooking

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🍳 Hungry? Come to Zap Cooking. Discover recipes packed with flavor, shared by real people, not algorithms. From weeknight dinners to backyard BBQs, there’s always something worth cooking. Built on Bitcoin. Powered by Nostr. Focused on food. Don’t just scroll. Cook. Share. Zap. ⚡️ zap.cooking

Zap Cooking is a Nostr original. We are not funded by OpenSats, Jack Dorsey, HRF, or Tether. We have received zero grant money. This has been a self-funded experiment from day one, built by people who believe recipes belong on the open web. We build features the community asks for. We’ve had dozens of contributors. We lean into our open source ethos. Zap Cooking is the original “other stuff.” Membership gives you access to our tools, including Chef ₿, Nourish, and Sous Chef for seamless recipe uploads. And summer is the perfect time to jump in — backyard meals, family recipes, fresh produce, weekend cookouts, and recipes worth sharing. For the next 21 days, use code NOSTRSUMMER for 50% off monthly or annual memberships. This promo is for Lightning payment only. We believe in Bitcoin and Nostr, and we are putting the incentives in place to help you send your sats. Don’t HODL. ZAP. Come support us. 🍳⚡ zap.cooking

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Zap Cooking is freedom tech. Your profile isn’t a product. Your recipes aren’t trapped. Your attention isn’t being harvested to feed an ad machine. Built on open protocols, open money, and solid architecture designed to last. 🍳⚡

The internet forgot how to feel human. Zap Cooking is bringing back recipe cards, kitchen stories, weird experiments, family traditions, and real people. Built for food culture, not content farms. 🍳⚡

Most apps are chasing influencers. We’re recruiting grandmas. 🍲 Seriously. We want your mom, your aunt, your grandfather with the secret chili recipe, the neighbor who still writes recipes on index cards. That’s the goal. Zap Cooking should feel like the natural place on the internet to share recipes, cooking stories, family traditions and food culture. Not because it’s “bitcoin.” Not because it’s “tech.” Because it’s genuinely better. We’re building: * beautiful recipe pages * AI recipe importing from links, photos and handwritten cards * built in payments and memberships * community groups and chats * longform food blogging * open social profiles * no ads spying on you * no algorithm fighting for attention * no platform lock in And the wild part? Most people using it won’t even need to know what Nostr is. That’s how freedom tech wins. Not through ideology alone. Through better products. We are normalizing open protocols, ownership, interoperability and value for value by making something people actually want to use. The future should not belong to closed platforms and surveillance feeds. It should belong to communities. Recipes. Families. Creators. Real people. Stay hungry. 🍳

Most platforms monetize your attention. We’re building something different at Zap Cooking. Recipes can earn directly. Creators can build communities. Users can support posts with sats instantly. No ads tracking your every move. No fighting an algorithm for reach. Just food, community, open protocols, and value flowing between people. ⚡ Recipe boosts ⚡ Lightning payments ⚡ AI cooking tools ⚡ Nostr-native identity ⚡ Open ecosystem interoperability The future of social apps won’t just be “content feeds.” They’ll be programmable communities with built-in money and ownership. Stay hungry. 🍳⚡

That’s a wrap on our Bitcoin Pizza Day giveaway. 🍕⚡ We’ve selected all 10 winners and the sats have been sent. Huge thanks to everyone who participated. There were so many great entries, memes, pizzas, food takes, and conversations throughout the event. We genuinely appreciate all of the engagement, renotes, comments, likes, and zaps. This is what makes building on open protocols fun. Stay hungry. 🍕⚡ View quoted note →

🍕⚡ Bitcoin Pizza Day Giveaway ⚡🍕 Bitcoin was once used to buy two pizzas. Now we’re using it to celebrate food, community, and the open web. To celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day, we’re giving away: ⚡ 10 prizes of 10,000 sats each ⚡ How to enter: 🍕 Post your pizza ⚡ Tag Zap Cooking 🧱 Share a Bitcoin, Nostr, food, or freedom-tech take 🔥 Memes, homemade pizza, bad pizza, elite pizza — all welcome We’ll pick 10 posts and zap each winner 10k sats. Proof of cook. Value for value. Stay hungry. 🍕⚡

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Introducing a new way to share on Zap Cooking 🍳 You can now create and share a Recipe Pack made up of the recipes you’ve posted. It’s your collection. Your style. Your cooking. Only you can publish your own recipe pack, turning everything you’ve shared into one clean, sharable view. And if you want to take it a step further… You can turn that Recipe Pack into a printable cookbook 📚 Unlock it for 2100 sats ⚡ and download a PDF that’s ready to print, gift, or keep. We’re building this in the open, learning as we go, and giving you better ways to create and share what you cook. Stay Hungry.

Cooking just got easier on Zap Cooking 👨🏻‍🍳 We just rolled out a couple of simple but powerful upgrades, built by @The Daniel 🖖 : ✔️ Checkboxes + strikethrough for ingredients and directions Follow along step by step and keep your place while cooking 🔢 Ingredient scaler ½, 1x, 2x, or 3x your recipe instantly depending on what you need These are small touches, but they matter when you’re actually in the kitchen making something real. Just another step forward as we keep building Zap Cooking into its own unique space here on Nostr ⚡🍳