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Short, practical guides to getting the most out of recipe cards.

• How to read a tabular recipe card

  The two-minute guide to reading merged-cell recipe cards: rows, merges, branches, and the final column.

• How recipe scaling works (and when not to trust it)

  What scales cleanly, what rounds, and what deliberately never changes when you resize a recipe.

• Cook mode: a hands-free walkthrough of any recipe

  Step-by-step cooking with automatic timers, lineage highlighting, and a screen that stays awake.

• Why a link becomes a card: structured recipe data explained

  How recipe sites publish machine-readable recipes, and what to do when a page doesn't.

• Meal prep with recipe cards: a practical workflow

  Batch cooking with scaled cards, a browser recipe box, and 4x6 index-card printing.

• How to print recipe cards on real 4×6 index cards

  Printer settings, card stock, and duplex tips for printing recipe cards at true index-card size.

• Convert any recipe into a card — even when a site fights back

  The link path, the paste path, and what to do when a recipe site blocks automated readers.

• Why a card beats a recipe page at the stove

  The case for tabular recipe cards: no scrolling, no lost place, the whole dish visible at once.