Tandoor Recipes

Tandoor Recipes is one of the most popular open-source recipe management platforms with over 8,000 GitHub stars, built by and for the self-hosting community. It provides a comprehensive solution for collecting, organizing, cooking, and sharing recipes through a modern web interface that works on desktop, tablet, and mobile. Unlike commercial cooking apps that lock your recipes behind subscriptions and monetize your data, Tandoor keeps your entire culinary collection private and under your control.

Common Use Cases

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

Key Features

• Import recipes from any website with automatic ingredient and instruction parsing
• Weekly meal planning calendar with drag-and-drop recipe assignment
• Automatic shopping list generation with intelligent ingredient merging
• Cookbook organization with tags, categories, and full-text search
• Nutritional information tracking with calories and macro breakdowns
• Multi-user support with 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 integration with grocery delivery services and other tools
• Recipe sharing via public links without requiring recipient accounts
• Ingredient management with unit conversions and substitute suggestions

Why deploy Tandoor Recipes on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Tandoor Recipes on a Hostinger VPS gives your family a private, always-available recipe platform accessible from any kitchen, grocery store, or device. Unlike commercial recipe apps, there are no subscription fees, no ads interrupting your cooking, and no algorithm deciding which recipes to show you. With PostgreSQL for reliable recipe and meal plan storage, your culinary collection is safely backed up and persists across updates. Traefik provides HTTPS access so family members can use the meal planner and shopping lists from anywhere, and the responsive design ensures recipes are easy to follow on a phone propped up next to the stove.