Cook, Learn, and Share to Fight Hunger.
 

The Key Features of CookingHub

The quality and user experience of CookingHub is one of our top priorities. This section is all about its features. Here you can learn what sets us apart from other recipe platforms.

 

Tom Tom Founder

CookingHub is Truly for Everyone!

  • CookingHub is designed for an unmatched cooking experience.
  • Discover, share, and create recipes that celebrate your unique tastes and lifestyle.
  • Join a global community passionate about food, where everyone is welcome to share their love for cooking, no matter their background or budget. Anyone from a home cook to a professional chef.

Sign Up for a Free Account

  • Signing up for an account is fast & easy.
  • By signing up, you will receive a free lifetime account and membership to cookinghub.com – a recipe, education, and social platform.
  • Read more here.
  • Or click here to start signing up.

Recipes

  • Enjoy unique and familiar recipes from around the world, all presented in an easy-to-follow layout (a sample of the recipe is here).
  • Take advantage of many helpful features, such as clicking on ingredients (in the ingredients section) or tools (in the tools section) within the recipe to learn more about them.
  • Use our Search tool to find the exact recipe you need. It can be found in any recipe section, even in recipes under a user’s profile.
  • Visit the Recipes section here.

Publish Your Recipe

  • Take advantage of our Recipe Editor, one of the most advanced on the market.
  • It allows all users to fill out and format recipes to their liking.
  • It supports everything from easy and fast recipe creation, where you provide just a few basic details, to well-organized recipes with step-by-step pictures and instructions written in a reader-friendly, nested structure. And everything in between!
  • Read more here.

Reviews

  • Providing feedback to the recipe’s author is helpful and important, not just to the author but also to the community.
  • Enjoy our easy-to-use review system under each recipe.
  • Give stars according to your experience with the recipe and don’t forget to write an encouraging short review.
  • And please, even if the recipe didn’t quite match your expectations, remember to be kind.

Your Profile

  • Everyone who signs up for CookingHub will receive a profile page.
  • Each profile page will receive its unique web address, allowing everyone to connect with others.
  • Content creators are encouraged to use this page as their own portfolio website.
  • On your profile page, you can add a profile photo and cover photo, share your story, or even link your social media and blog addresses.
  • Or, if you prefer, switch your profile to private. Read more about settings and privacy here.

Cooks Chart

  • The Cooks Chart is a ranking system for CookingHub users where they compete for the best position.
  • Whether you publish recipes for fun or are an influencer, the Cooks Chart adds an extra dimension to publishing recipes on CookingHub.

Saved for Later

  • Save any recipe, article, or other content for later.
  • All you need to do is click on any orange button with a plus symbol.
  • Visit My Menu to access your saved content.
  • Read more here.

Follow

  • Follow your favorite cooks to stay up-to-date with their latest creations.
  • Let others follow you by utilizing automatic follower approval (default setting, read more here).
  • Or disable automatic follower approval and approve followers one by one.

My Menu is an easy-to-use user menu on CookingHub that enhances the experience of every user (read more here).

With My Menu, you can:

  • Access recipes and content you’ve saved for later.
  • Publish your own recipes.
  • Access & manage your followers.
  • …and more!

Kitchen Guide

  • Kitchen Guide is your guide to culinary knowledge and skills.
  • Learn everything from how to properly cut and sharpen knives, separate eggs, all sorts of different cooking techniques, and about the most common diets.
  • Visit the Kitchen Guide section here.

Food & Ingredients

  • The Food & Ingredients section is full of useful articles about your favorite ingredients.
  • Learn everything from the different types of fruit, the most popular kinds of beef steaks, the difference between powdered sugar and confectioners’ sugar, and more.
  • Visit the Food & Ingredients section here.

Kitchen Tools

  • Visit the Tools section to learn more about all the kitchen tools in your favorite recipes, as well as any tool you may ever need.
  • Visit the Kitchen Tools section here.
  • Optionally, click on any tool (listed in the tools section of a recipe) to read more about

News

  • The News section is your free online culinary magazine.
  • It focuses on bringing you not only news from the CookingHub world, but also information and new trends from the wider culinary world.
  • Discover everything from new and trendy recipes to information about unique cooking techniques.
  • Visit the News section here.

CookingHub Foundation

  • The CookingHub Foundation is a public charity (non-profit organization) and the operator of www.cookinghub.com – a one-of-a-kind recipe, education, and social platform for home and professional cooks.
  • Our mission is to fight hunger while providing high-quality cooking-related content.
  • Read more here.

Look Out for These Upcoming Features…

Help Us Bring New Features to Life

  • As a public charity, our resources are limited, and developing and implementing new features, as well as operating a platform the size of CookingHub, incur costs.
  • For that reason, we expect to implement new features as indicated, but the timeline may vary depending on our fundraising outcomes and operating income.
  • If you would like to help us accelerate the development and implementation process, as well as support our operational expenses, please spread the word about CookingHub and consider donating.

Donation Options Coming Soon

CookingHub Foundation was granted 509(a)(2) public charity status under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS on April 25, 2024.

Currently, we’re finalizing partnerships with select partner charities and will announce their names once all agreements are complete.

Donation options will be available then.

Event Section

  • Coming Winter 2024/2025
  • This section will further extend the offerings of the CookingHub, allowing users to clearly read about and register for all sorts of online cooking classes and other events.

Recipe Insert Plugin

  • Coming Winter 2024/2025
  • This plugin will allow users to insert recipes published on CookingHub onto their own web pages. This way, all content creators can take advantage of our recipe editor and, without extra effort, publish recipes simultaneously on CookingHub and their own websites, saving time.

Chat

  • Coming Winter 2024/2025
  • All users will be able to chat with each other.

Budget Cooking

  • In winter 2024/2025, we are going to introduce Budget Cooking – a specialized section with recipes and guidance for disadvantaged communities with limited budgets.
  • In addition to budget-friendly recipes, users will be provided with tips on how to shop on a limited budget and where and how to obtain additional resources to put more food on the table.
  • Read more here.

Comments

  • Coming Winter 2024/2025.
  • All users will be able to comment on recipes and articles.
  • Please note that the review function is already fully functional and running (read more here).

Wall

  • Coming in 2025.
  • Get ready for an interactive wall where you can connect, share, and engage with the CookingHub community!

Phone App

  • Coming in 2025 or 2026.
  • Our CookingHub app for Android and Apple devices will bring the joy of cooking even closer to you.