Handbook · Chapter 4 of 13
Chapter 4
From the recipe page to the plate — cook mode, scaling, substitutions and more.
Updated September 8, 2026
Every recipe gets the full treatment: a beautiful photo, timings, servings, tagged ingredients, step-by-step instructions, chef tips and nutrition — one scroll, everything you need.

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Tap Start Cooking and the recipe becomes full-screen steps — big type, one step at a time, with the ingredients for each step right there. Your screen stays awake while you cook.

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Cooking for two, or for twelve? Change the servings and every quantity rescales instantly — and your original recipe stays untouched underneath.

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Out of buttermilk? On the recipe page, tap any ingredient and Sprig suggests swaps that actually work in this recipe — with amounts, not just names.


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Recipes come with chef tips for the tricky moments. Add your own rating and notes after cooking — future-you will thank past-you.

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Per-serving calories, protein, carbs and fat on every recipe — estimated from the actual ingredients and amounts, and they rescale when you scale servings.

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In cook mode, Sprig can read every step aloud. Pick the voice you like on the You page — the row is called Voice — then cook hands-free.
📍 You page → Voice · open in Sprig →
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Every recipe deserves a photo worth cooking for. Generate one, regenerate until it looks right, edit it with a prompt, level it up — or polish your own shot with Make It Professional. Nothing is lost: Past Photos keeps every version.


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Every photo a recipe has ever had stays in Past Photos, in the photo menu. Bring any of them back as the main photo with one tap.

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Pro members can add up to eight photos of their own cooking to any recipe. Open the recipe's photo menu and choose Add to Gallery — pick several at once if you like. Once a recipe has more than one photo, swipe the main photo to browse them; a small count in the corner opens the grid, where you can drag photos into order, set one as the main photo, add a caption, or delete. Tap any photo to see it full screen. Your gallery is private until you share the recipe with the community and switch on "Include my photos" (Sprig remembers your choice). Public photos are screened like every upload and can be reported; a pulled photo shows PULLED in your grid and stays yours.
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