Observed arrival · 2026-09-24
Flattop turns cooking-video captions into a cook-along plan
Flattop describes a phone-based workflow that turns pasted cooking-video captions into recipes, aisle-ordered shopping lists, substitutions, and hands-free cooking steps.
- For
- People cooking from social-video recipes
- Worth noticing
- It explicitly rules out automatic video-link scraping and explains why: users paste captions instead.
Field notes
The described workflow starts with copied caption text rather than a video URL; the page says automatic link extraction would involve scraping and conflict with platform terms. It says the resulting recipe includes quantities, steps, timers, and cooking-surface temperatures, while the shopping list combines ingredients, adds amounts across units, and removes items already in the pantry. The page also says cooking timers stay accurate by running from the clock.
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