Paprika App Hack

[SheilaAnn]

I’m sure most of y’all know this, but I had a ‘piphany and realized I could edit in more areas of a recipe than I thought. I use Paprika on my iPad exclusively. I am working a Dutch oven bread recipe right now. It has very few ingredients, so there is lots of blank space under the nutritional info. That’s where I added my notes instead of scrolling all the way down to the NOTES section. This particular author had lots of info in the DIRECTIONS section, so lots of real estate to cover. And, I also added a "heads up" under DESCRIPTION. Again, so it is front and center. I have messed stuff up be forgetting I had scaled a recipe.

[rickgregory]

I alter the measurements and then use the scaling feature. It seems to work better with weights (ounces or metric).

[bbqLuv]

Thanks, works for me.

[jfmorris]

Good to know. However, right now, you have a half recipe set to 1/2 in the scaling, so is it really a quarter recipe? Or do the words themselves somehow change with the scaling?

I just put all recipes in as the full original recipe, and then use the scaling to increase or decrease the amount...

I do a similar no-knead bread, and its double what you show for the amounts for a "regular" sized recipe, i.e. 3 cups flour, etc. You would have to use a tiny dutch oven for a half recipe...

[SheilaAnn]

This is really a half recipe. I also called out "half recipe" in MY NOTES because those weights are the halved recipe. If I go back to 1x recipes, the notes won’t change. Just extra insurance for my little brain 😜

[JimLinebarger]

If you look at the scaling location (right under the Ingredients header) it tells you that the current recipe is 1/2 the original saved recipe. You can also reverse the scaling.

[SheilaAnn]

Yes, I have done that before. Because, I learned, that any items within parentheses, such as weights, will not scale. Also, any measurements called out in the directions will not scale. Learned that the hard way, too.

[IowaGirl]

I got caught a time or two myself until I realized only the first measurement changes if you re-scale a recipe. For example, if the original recipe calls for -- 1 cup (7 oz) sugar -- rescaling that to 1/2 size results in this -- 1/2 cup (7 oz) sugar. The issue isn't just about using cups, ounces, and grams. Sometimes I want to say "1 cup sweet pepper diced, about 1 large pepper" to give an idea of how many peppers I need to prep. It's awkward. Thanks for sharing how you handle this!

[Bkhuna]

SheilaAnn Is there a way you can share that Paprika recipe? I would like to start making bread and this looks like it's something I can pull off.

Thanks.

[jfmorris]

Here’s the same basic recipe, which I shared a couple years ago. She just has hers scaled way down…

https://pitmaster.amazingribs.com/forum/recipes-technique-food-cooking/baking-recipes/950180-no-knead-dutch-oven-bread-recipe#post950180

There are several others in the baking area. No-knead bread is super easy, and I often just shape it into a long loaf like French bread, and skip the Dutch oven, baking for 25-30 only.

I scaled the original by 1.5x - hers is 0.5x the original.

[Bkhuna]

jfmorris Thanks. I'm a new Paprika user and would still like to know if there is a way of sending and/or receiving recipes to others.

[SheilaAnn]

Gladly… share through the app? Or I can post it….

[Polarbear777]

I reformat most recipes so that the weights will scale.

[Skip]

I'm just getting my recipes into Paprika the past few months. Anyone that might be in doubt...Paprika is definitely worth the money and time to get it going! Pretty simple to use.

[jfmorris]

Bkhuna in answer to your question about being able to send and receive Paprika recipes, yes, that can happen in multiple ways, but it varies depending on which version of Paprika you are looking at. There are 4 - Android, iOS, Mac and Windows.

Sending/Exporting Paprika Files for other people:

On my Mac version, there is a "..." in the top bar of the Window. While looking at a recipe, if I click that, there is a pop up menu with a Share option that lets me email/text a Paprika file, a text file or an HTML file. However, there is also an Export option, and I can export to a HTML file OR a Paprika file. I would export to Paprika, then email that file to someone else that wanted the recipe.

On my Windows version, at the top there is the same "..." and I get options to Email the recipe, or Export. Export has the same options - Paprika file or HTML file.

On iOS I have the same "..." but instead of Export there is a SHARE option, where I can share to a Paprika file, then it asks me if I want to send that via Messages, Mail, etc.

Importing Paprika Files from other people:

On Windows AND Mac, go to File->Import on the menus, and choose the Paprika file you want to import. On iOS there is no import option, but if I open a file attached to an email or message, it opens and adds to Paprika automatically.

[rickgregory]

raywjohnson Hmm... hey. Could the forum be altered to allow recipe files (specifically .paprikarecipe files) to be attached to posts?

[jfmorris]

It may be a disk space issue. Any images in the recipe are baked into the .paprikarecipe file, and cannot be compressed or resized to optimize storage in the same manner that a normal jpeg uploaded image can be.

[rickgregory]

jfmorris - yeah. No big deal if not, but it would be nice to be able to say "... and if you'd like to try this, here's the recipe file for Paprika..."

Most of mine are tiny (~2k) but that's because I don't include images except the one that comes in if I import it from the web.

[raywjohnson]

I would have to know more about these files and their format. I will send you ( rickgregory ) an email and you can reply with a .paprikarecipe file attached so I can check it out.

[rickgregory]

raywjohnson This is a screenshot of the recipe I sent over in case you don't have Paprika:

[SheilaAnn]

raywjohnson I just did this and sent a recipe to myself. I can forward to you. FWIW, it is a simple process! But I get that you want to check code.

[rickgregory]

Tryin to edge into my special thing, EH?

[SheilaAnn]

Goodness, no. I was just playing around to see how it worked. 🤗

[raywjohnson]

Thanks all, but my purpose was to figure out how to extract the information from the file using code. That way, I *might* be able to create a method to upload and display them.

As it happens, the files are just GZipped JSON file. (gzip + json).

Easy to extract and parse.

No promises. If I can get this approved (and find the extra time). I *should* be able to allow attaching these files and displaying the data.

For now, I have added the ability to attach them like images. That way you can share them here.

[Mosca]

Okay! On iPad, download the file, then save it to Paprika. Perfect!

[jfmorris]

Yes - that binary file downloaded and opened in Paprika on Windows perfectly.

[rickgregory]

Oh cool. Thanks for checking this out

[Waiting for the Worms]

I have heard, but certainly never tried it for myself, that if you find a recipe you want that is behind a paywall, Paprika will ignore the paywall and download the recipe for you.

[SheilaAnn]

I’m going to agree as that I was able to get that lemon almond pesto recipe from Milk Street earlier. But it may have been a freebie. NYT, here I come!

[Mosca]

Doesn’t work on ATK and affiliated sites (Cooks Illustrated, Cooks Country).

[Waiting for the Worms]

Mosca You are correct. It does download an ingredient list, but I'm not sure what you could make with it. SheilaAnn I never tried of course, but I heard it from a friend of a cousins sister in law, that it does in fact work very well on the NYT site.