Tandoor Recipes

Tandoor Recipes is one of the most popular open-source recipe management platforms, boasting over 8,000 GitHub stars. It was built by and for the self-hosting community. This platform offers a complete solution for collecting, organizing, cooking, and sharing recipes through a modern web interface that works seamlessly on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. Unlike commercial cooking apps that often lock your recipes behind subscriptions and monetize your data, Tandoor ensures your entire culinary collection remains private and fully under your control.

Common Use Cases

Home cooks utilize Tandoor to consolidate recipes that are scattered across dozens of bookmarked websites, printed cards, and family notebooks, bringing them into one searchable library. Families can plan their weekly meals together using the shared calendar, with shopping lists automatically generated from their planned recipes and sent directly to their phones for grocery store trips. Meal preppers can organize recipes based on prep time, nutritional content, and ingredient availability to optimize their cooking schedules. Food bloggers find Tandoor useful as a personal recipe database to draft, organize, and refine recipes before publishing them. Cooking clubs and communities can also share recipe spaces where members contribute dishes and rate each other's creations.

Key Features

• Import recipes from any website, complete with automatic ingredient and instruction parsing
• Weekly meal planning calendar featuring drag-and-drop recipe assignment
• Automatic shopping list generation, with intelligent ingredient merging
• Cookbook organization, complete with tags, categories, and full-text search
• Nutritional information tracking, including calories and macro breakdowns
• Multi-user support, offering shared recipe spaces and individual meal plans
• Recipe scaling for different serving sizes, with automatic ingredient adjustment
• Step-by-step cooking mode, optimized for kitchen use on mobile devices
• REST API for seamless integration with grocery delivery services and other tools
• Recipe sharing via public links, without requiring recipient accounts
• Ingredient management, featuring unit conversions and substitute suggestions

Why deploy Tandoor Recipes on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Tandoor Recipes on a Hostinger VPS provides your family with a private, always-available recipe platform that can be accessed from any kitchen, grocery store, or device. Unlike commercial recipe apps, you won't encounter any subscription fees, ads interrupting your cooking, or algorithms dictating which recipes you see. With PostgreSQL ensuring reliable recipe and meal plan storage, your culinary collection is safely backed up and persists across updates. Traefik then provides secure HTTPS access, allowing family members to use the meal planner and shopping lists from anywhere. Plus, its responsive design ensures recipes are easy to follow, even on a phone propped up right next to the stove.