By Matthew Cockerill

I don’t know about you, but I often find myself juggling multiple recipe printouts in the kitchen as I multitask my way through several dishes at once.

I always figured there had to be a better way and so my ears pricked up when one enthusiastic and vocal ckbk user got in touch to ask if we’d considered making it possible to “Pin” recipes (just as you can “Pin” important social media posts, notes etc.)

This made complete sense and we are very happy to now release pinned recipes as a new feature.

How it works

You can pin recipes in the ckbk app and on the web, using the pin icon which appears on each recipe

You can also pin using the “Pin this recipe” menu option on each recipe search result

Pinned recipes are shown in a ‘carousel’ at the top of the screen

If you pin more recipes than will fit, you can scroll the carousel to see them all…

You can easily minimize the pinned recipe carousel to save space, without losing your pinned recipes.

You can unpin a single recipe the same way you pinned it, or alernatively clear all your pinned recipes using the button at the end of the carousel

Ways to use pinned recipes

1. Use it to quickly shortlist and compare recipes
You can gather recipe possibilities and pin them so you can evaluate and compare different options for a specific dish, or different ways to use a certain ingredient. Flip back and forth between them to figure out which you like best, or maybe freestyle your own approach combining ideas from several different recipes (as Felicity Cloake does in her How to Cook the Perfect recipe columns).

2. Cook a multi-component dish
Many of the chef recipes on ckbk make use of sub-components or depend on basic recipes supplied elsewhere in the book. Pin these recipes and you will have everything your need accessible with a single click, even if your’re making Peter Gilmore’s Eight Texture Chocolate Cake.

3. Cook a whole menu of dishes
Get your starter, main course, side dishes and dessert lined up in advance as pinned recipes, for a no-sweat approach to cooking a special meal…