About CookTheReel

Every great cooking video has the same comment section: "recipe??" CookTheReel is the answer. We turn viral cooking videos into clean, written recipes — ingredients with real quantities, steps in order, and the original video right there on the page.

Three promises: the recipe is real(every page is transcribed from an actual video — when we had to interpret a "glug" or a "handful," we say so on the page); the creator gets the credit (named, linked, and able to claim or remove their page anytime); and no life stories — the video and the recipe are the whole point.

Reading is free and always will be. The site is supported by ads — never inside the recipe card, never in Cook Mode.

Curious how pages get made? Read how we write these.