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Import

Paste a link. Get just the recipe.

You get the ingredients, steps, times and photo, without the ads, pop-ups and endless scrolling, and the site it came from is always credited and linked. Cookbook photos, scribbled cards and other apps work too.

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The import page: paste a link, text, a photo or a Paprika export

Cook without ads

Skip the scroll. Cook the recipe.

You shouldn't have to scroll through a book-length article and a wall of ads to make dinner. The cook who wrote it still gets the credit and a link back — you just don't have to read it at the stove.

The same kind of recipe in Hedgehog Chef: title, photo, times and ingredients, with the original site credited

After: just the recipe, source credited

Before: a typical recipe page with ad blocks, a newsletter pop-up, a video ad and a cookie banner around long paragraphs. After: the same recipe in Hedgehog Chef, with only the title, photo, times, ingredients and steps, and a link to the original site.

Sources

From wherever your recipes live now.

Recipe websites Paste a link. The recipe data almost every recipe site publishes is read directly, and AI reads the pages that don't have it.
Photos A cookbook page, a recipe card in grandma's handwriting, a screenshot — Claude reads it and fills in the recipe.
Pasted text From an email, a note or a message: paste it, and the title, ingredients, steps and times are filled in.
Paprika Your whole .paprikarecipes export, with photos, ratings, notes and categories.
Other apps Exports from Mela, Crouton, Recipe Keeper, MasterCook, Plan to Eat, Mealie, Tandoor, Copy Me That, Cooklang and schema.org files.
Videos and posts YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Pinterest links: the recipe in the description or caption, or the written recipe it links to, with a plain note when there isn't one.

Moving from Paprika

Your whole Paprika library, in about a minute.

  1. 1In Paprika, use Export to save your recipes as a .paprikarecipes file.
  2. 2In Hedgehog Chef, open Import → Paprika and choose the file.
  3. 3See what's new and what you already have. Import, and it's done.

Photos, star ratings, notes, sources and categories (as tags) come along. Nothing is changed in Paprika.

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Small bowls of whole and ground spices: cumin, turmeric, paprika, cinnamon and star anise

Without opening Hedgehog Chef

Save a recipe from wherever you found it.

iOS Shortcut Share any page from Safari to “Save to Hedgehog”.
Android share sheet Install Hedgehog Chef and it appears when you share a link.
Bookmarklet One click from any desktop browser's bookmarks bar.
Claude “Save this recipe to Hedgehog Chef” — with a link, text or a photo.
Email it in Forward a recipe to your private Hedgehog Chef address.
Browser extension Coming soon “Save to Hedgehog Chef” in Chrome, Edge and Firefox, with a binder picker.

Setup for each is in the app under Settings → API & shortcuts, and on the integrations page.

Fresh herbs, garlic, chilies and a chef's knife on a wooden chopping board

Clean on arrival

Imports you won't have to fix.

  • Ingredients split into amount, unit and ingredient, so they scale, convert and shop
  • Sections like “For the sauce” kept as headings
  • Prep, cook and total times, servings and yield filled in
  • Duplicates spotted before you import them twice
  • Review everything before it's saved
  • No photo? You get an appetizing one

Some sites block importers or sit behind a paywall. For those, paste the recipe text and it's structured for you.

Start with the recipes you already love.

Start with the recipes you already love. Hedgehog Chef is free to use — bring your household, your favorite sites and your Paprika library.

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