Flourhands: Recipe Cookbook

Put the phone down. Flourhands runs the recipe in full-screen type, keeps the time for you, and wakes you when the long rest is finally done.

Flourhands is a cookbook that cooks with you. Open a recipe, tap Cook, and the screen clears: one step at a time, in type you can read from across the counter, swiped along with the back of a floury hand. Timers sit inside the steps that need them, quantities scale to the number of people at your table, and when a recipe asks you to walk away for an hour — or eighteen — your phone wakes you when it's ready.

COOKING MODE The whole screen, one step. Swipe left for the next, right to go back. Swipe down and the ingredient list slides in from the top with every quantity already scaled; the ones you've finished with fade quietly out of the way. Steps that need a timer have one built in, with a ring that counts down and a notification when it rings. The screen stays awake while you cook, so nothing goes dark mid-fold.

Life happens. Walk away and the recipe waits — come back and the button reads "Resume — step 4 of 9". Leave it long enough and Flourhands asks, gently, whether that dough is still worth saving.

BUILT FOR THE LONG RESTS Some steps aren't steps at all. They're waiting: an overnight prove, a three-hour braise, a chill until morning. Flourhands hands the recipe back to you at those moments — "See you in 18 hours" — so you can put the phone in your pocket and go live your life. The notification that wakes you opens the app on the exact step you left.

SCALES TO YOUR TABLE Cooking for two tonight and six on Sunday? Change the servings and every quantity re-scales: in the ingredient list, in the drawer, and inside the step text itself, highlighted right where you need to read it.

FILL YOUR COOKBOOK Start with the published recipes on Home. Search them, or narrow down to weeknight, baking, slow and passive, or vegetarian, and save the ones worth keeping.

Then add your own, three ways. Photograph a cookbook page, a recipe card or a handwritten note, and Flourhands reads it into a clean, scalable recipe. Paste the link to a recipe page and it does the same. Or write one from scratch, with timers and rests exactly where you want them. However it arrives, it's yours to edit before you save.

COOK AS A HOUSEHOLD A household is a small, invite-only circle: the people you actually cook with. Send them a link and they're in. Recipes you write land on the household's shared shelf, and a quiet feed shows who cooked what, and the stars they gave it. Cook something someone else wrote, and they'll know.

THE REST Light, dark, or whatever the system is doing. Browse without an account, and sign in when there's something you want to keep. Sign in with Apple or an email address. Notifications carry timers, long rests, and the occasional nudge that someone cooked your recipe. And when you want out, Settings deletes your account and everything in it.

Made with flour and patience.