Searching and filtering recipes

Updated 2026-09-13

The search box on the Recipes tab matches across a recipe's title, ingredient names, tag names, cuisine, protein, dietary tags, and source link — so "chicken", "Thai", "birthday", or "oats" all work.

Filters

Open the filter controls to narrow the list by:

• Tried — recipes you've cooked (or haven't).
• Loved by — pick members; shows recipes everyone you picked has Loved.
• Cuisine, Protein, Carb, and Dietary tags.
• Ingredients — has (or doesn't have) a given ingredient.

Search text and filters combine — search "pasta" with the Vegetarian dietary filter to get just those.

Protein is multi-select per recipe — a recipe with both chicken and bacon matches either Poultry or Meat. Protein and Carb are set automatically from the recipe's ingredients (not chosen by hand); Cuisine and Dietary are still picked when editing a recipe — see Editing a recipe.

Why a filter is missing

Cuisine, Protein, Carb, and Dietary only appear once your library has enough variety in that category to make filtering by it useful — a library that's entirely, say, Italian recipes won't show a Cuisine filter. Add recipes with a wider mix and the filter appears on its own.