One step at a time, screen awake

The recipe and nothing else

Your hands are covered in flour. The screen goes dark, and the recipe is a scroll of ads and life story with the steps somewhere in the middle. Cook mode shows the recipe and nothing else.

Gather your ingredients first

Cook mode opens on a checklist of every ingredient, each with its quantity written the way a recipe card writes it. Tick each one as you set it out on the counter. The ticks stay on your device, so if you leave to answer the door and come back mid-cook, they are still there. They clear themselves within half a day, so an old cook's checklist is never mistaken for tonight's. Nothing about what you gathered leaves the device.

Gathering is optional. Start the steps whenever you like, ticked or not.

Follow along one step at a time

Each step fills the screen in big type. Nothing else. Press Next for the next step and Back for the one before. While cook mode is open the screen stays awake, so you are not unlocking the phone with a wet thumb between steps.

Finish, and post it

The last step offers to post about it. Post, and the recipe page counts that cook: when you last made it and how many times. Your friends see the plate. Those posts are where the recipe box's cook history comes from.

On every recipe, on a phone or a computer

Cook mode is there on every recipe you can see, whether you wrote it or a friend shared it. Cook mode works in a browser on a computer too: press Start cooking and the recipe shows in one column of big type, as it does on a phone. Get a recipe off a card and into the app by scanning it, then cook from the screen.