SuperCook Helps You Make Dinner Without Going to the Store

Many services can help you find recipes to make based on the items you already have in your kitchen--but some of them have gone away over the years, and others don't have a broad depth of recipes. SuperCook is different. It has hundreds of recipes and allows you to build a virtual pantry of items and see in real time how the recipes you can make change based on what you have available. The recipes look delicious, and the service can even recommend a few things to pick up if you have most of the ingredients but still want to make a quick trip to the grocery store.





To use SuperCook, you begin by typing ingredients you want to cook with into the search box at the upper-left side of the page. As you enter ingredients, they'll be automatically added to Your Kitchen, a virtual pantry that's displayed right under the search box. As you type, SuperCook makes suggestions on what ingredient you may be trying to type. You can get started either by typing in some of the ingredients that you'd like to use, or you can rummage through your fridge or pantry to come up with a master list and see what SuperCook can do for you.As you build your list, search results appear on the right side of the page that make use of those ingredients. If you have ingredients in your list that you don't want to use or ingredients that you'll never cook with because of allergies, illness, or other dietary needs, you can add them to your Exclude list, and SuperCook will never show you recipes that use those ingredients. For example, if you're lactose intolerant, you can add milk, cheese, and butter to the exclude list and see only recipes that either don't use those ingredients or offer suitable substitutes. By default, all search results are displayed when you start entering ingredients. If you're looking specifically for an appetizer, dessert, or a main dish, you can click the tabs at the top of that page to see only those types of recipes.You don't have to sign up for an account to use SuperCook, but if you do you can create a persistent Your Kitchen pantry list that doesn't go away when you leave the site. That way, you can return to SuperCook and reuse the ingredients you still have, remove ingredients that you've eaten, and add items you've purchased fresh after a trip to the grocery store. You don't have to re-enter your pantry items each time you want to use the service, and the site will automatically find new recipes that match what you have available. SuperCook would already be just as good or better than a number of other "enter what you have and we'll tell you what to make" services like the now-defunct Snacksby, but the fact that you can create a persistent pantry and get updated recipes as you add and remove items over time puts the service over the top. If you use it regularly, finding out what's for dinner could be as easy as logging in to SuperCook to see what they suggest.