How search works

You can type the way you would ask a friend: "something quick with chicken", "vegetarian for guests", "dessert without an oven". The search understands what you mean – not just the words you use:

• As you type suggestions appear straight away; press Enter for the full results page.
• Filters by themselves: vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, lactose-free, without nuts, quick, under an hour and slow become real filters on ingredients and time.
• "Without …" excludes an ingredient: "chicken without onion" finds only chicken dishes that have no onion in the ingredient list.
• Typos and word forms are handled: "zukini" finds zucchini, "pancake" finds pancakes.
• "Similar" below the results are recipes that resemble what you searched for even if the words are not in them – for example other dishes from the same cuisine or using the same technique.

The search runs on turbopuffer, a vector database that combines classic text search (with English word stemming) and semantic search, where each recipe is stored as a "meaning vector". No cookies are set; only the search term itself is saved, so the site can see what people are looking for.