Cooking · Recipes
Nouns Cooking
Recipes from 25 kitchens, cooked with the Nouns.
A free recipe app with nearly 3,500 home-cooking recipes from 20 world cuisines, from Italian and Mexican to Malaysian, Korean and West African, plus a bakery, dessert parlour, soup pot, plant-based kitchen and drinks bar. Recipes are written in plain steps in our own words and linked to the trusted cooks we checked. Cook along with tap-to-start timers, plan a keto, paleo, vegan or pescatarian week, find dishes from what is in your fridge and turn it all into one shopping list.
- Type
- Recipes · Meal planning
- Price
- Free, no ads, no account
- Recipes
- 3,499
- Kitchens
- 20 world cuisines + 5 special kitchens
- Diets
- Vegan, vegetarian, keto, paleo, pescatarian and more
- Cook mode
- Step cards, timers, read-aloud
- Saving
- Favourites and plans saved on your device
- Install
- Installs as an app
What is Nouns Cooking?
Nouns Cooking is a free recipe app hosted by Noun chefs. It has 3,499 recipes from 20 world cuisines and five special kitchens: Plant-Based, Bakery, Dessert Parlour, Soup Pot and the Drinks Bar.
Recipes are written in plain steps in our own words, with quantities checked against named reference sites such as BBC Good Food, RecipeTin Eats and Just One Cookbook. Scale the servings, switch between metric and imperial, then press Cook it! for big step-by-step cards, tap-to-start timers and read-aloud, with the screen kept awake.
Not sure what to make? Tell the Fridge finder what you have, spin the Dinner wheel or let Plan my week build a menu for your diet. Everything goes onto one shopping list sorted by aisle. Cook a dish to stamp its kitchen in your Food Passport.
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Features
25 kitchens
From Italian, French and Mexican to Indian, Thai, Japanese and West & East African, plus bakery, desserts, soups, plant-based and a drinks bar.
Cook mode
Big step cards, timers read from the steps, a heads-up before the next timer, read-aloud and the screen kept awake.
Plan my week
A week of breakfasts, lunches and dinners for a balanced diet or one of nine others.
Fridge finder
Tap what you have and see what you can make. Salt, pepper, oil, sugar and flour are taken as given.
Dinner wheel
Spin for tonight’s dinner, filtered by diet and cooking time.
Shopping list by aisle
Add recipes and get one list sorted into aisles, ready to copy or share.
Food Passport
Stamp a kitchen every time you cook, earn XP and climb from Kitchen Newbie to Noun Legend.
Servings and units
Scale any recipe and switch between metric and imperial.
How to open
- Open Nouns Cooking and pick a kitchen, or search for a dish.
- Open a recipe and set the servings and units.
- Press Cook it! and follow the step cards. Tap a timer to start it.
- Add recipes to your week plan and shopping list.
- Cook to collect stamps in your Food Passport.
Controls
Cook mode
- → or Space
- Next step
- ←
- Previous step
- Esc
- Leave cook mode
- 🔊
- Read the step aloud
Kitchens
Nouns Cooking questions
Is Nouns Cooking free?
Yes. Every recipe and feature is free, with no ads and no account.
Where do the recipes come from?
Each recipe is written in our own words, and its quantities are checked against named reference sites, which are linked on the recipe.
Can it plan meals for my diet?
Yes. Plan my week can build a week for a balanced diet or for diets such as vegan, vegetarian, keto, paleo or pescatarian. Plans follow ingredients, not calories, and are not medical advice.
Does cook mode keep my screen on?
Yes. The screen stays awake in cook mode, and timers can vibrate and send a notification if you allow it.
Can I change servings and units?
Yes. Scale any recipe up or down and switch between metric and imperial measurements.
Are there drinks too?
Yes. The Drinks Bar has cocktails and mocktails, and cocktails link to their alcohol-free versions. You can also hide alcohol in the settings.
Ready to open?
Free in your browser on phones, tablets and computers. No download, no sign-up.
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