weird little apps

purveyors of fine apps

recipetables.com

the headline less scrolling, more cooking above a recipe blog post beside the same sunday pancakes recipe as a table, with a box to paste a link below

the bottom of the home page with the paste box, a get pro offer, a newsletter signup and a footer crediting michael chu of cookingforengineers.com

the library page searched for soup, with filter chips by dish and 237 results shown as photo cards of chicken meatball, red lentil, broccoli cheddar and soba noodle soups

an oyako don recipe as a table, nine ingredients down the left with merged step cells for combine seasonings, simmer, pour in eggs and slide over rice, above buttons to scale, switch to grams and translate

1 of 4 · how recipe tables work

2 of 4 · bottom of the page

3 of 4 · library

4 of 4 · detail page

28 jul 2026 · web

RecipeTables

recipes redesigned as tables

maker’s words

i can’t believe someone solved recipe design decades ago and everyone just decided to ignore it
Juan Buis, 28 jul 2026 · source

recs

Cooking for Engineers...recipe infographics! (and interview) · Cool Infographics (26 apr 2010)
Engineers redesigned the recipe to make it easier to follow · Fast Company (31 jul 2026)
This 22-Year-Old Recipe Hack Is Going Mega Viral · BuzzFeed (31 jul 2026)
Engineer’s Forgotten Recipe Hack Becomes A Viral Sensation · Bored Panda (10 aug 2026)

also: writeup ↗ · the original format ↗ · launch post ↗

collected by Vivian Qu
no. 2026.0012