MyRecipes Can Now Do More (in Very Useful Recipe-Saving Ways You Will Want to Know About)

Back in June, I introduced our readers to MyRecipes, the recipe-saving app that finally offered the recipe-collecting solution so many of our readers had been begging us to create for years. At the time, it worked not only with Serious Eats recipes but also with our sibling cooking sites, including Food & Wine, EatingWell, Simply Recipes, AllRecipes, Better Homes and Gardens, Southern Living, and Liquor.com (I'm probably forgetting one or two... my employer owns a lot of recipe sites).

I'm writing today with an important update, because MyRecipes has added two very helpful features that I think our readers will want to know about. The first, and (I think) the biggest, is that MyRecipes is now no longer limited to only the recipe sites I listed above. It now works for more than 1,000 websites. This means that you can save recipes not only from Serious Eats and our sibling brands, but from just about any recipe site out there. All you have to do is copy the link into your MyRecipes box, and it's saved for future easy access. When you click the saved link in MyRecipes, it will send you directly to the original site for your cooking pleasure. I, meanwhile, will feel only slightly hurt that you're not 100% dedicated to a fully monogamous relationship with the world-class recipes from Serious Eats.

The other feature now live is a mass-save option when you're browsing a recipe collection. Let's say you're scanning the MyRecipes collection for the best Hanukkah recipes, and you think, "You know what? There's a lot on here I'd like to save. Frankly, just about all of it!" Instead of the slightly tedious task of clicking the "Save" heart on each recipe thumbnail, you can now click the "Save This Collection" button at the top of the page. It'll add all of them to your recipe box in one go.

Cooking them all, however? That'll take some time.