How to Start Cooking Mode

What Cooking Mode does

Cooking Mode turns a recipe into full-screen, numbered steps that are easy to read from across the kitchen. It keeps your screen awake, tracks your progress, and can read steps aloud so you don't need to touch your phone with messy hands.

How to start it

1. Open the recipe you want to cook.
2. Look for the Start Cooking button near the top of the recipe.
3. Tap or click it to enter full-screen Cooking Mode.
4. Use the on-screen arrows or swipe to move between steps.
5. Tap the read-aloud icon if you want the app to speak each step to you.

While you cook

• Your progress through the steps is shown so you always know how far along you are.
• Any step with a cook or rest time will offer a per-step timer you can start with one tap.
• The screen will stay awake automatically, so you won't need to keep unlocking your device.

Finishing up

When you reach the last step, Cooking Mode will offer to log the dish to your Cooking Diary. This is a great time to add a photo, a star rating, and any notes about how it turned out, so you can look back on it later.

Tips

• If you need to check an ingredient amount, you can usually scroll back to previous steps without losing your place.
• Cooking Mode works best in a browser window that isn't minimized, since some phones dim or lock the screen when the app is in the background.