About flowcook

Recipes are written as prose because prose is easy to write. They are cooked as a process: several things happening at once, merging at specific moments. flowcook redraws the recipe the way you actually cook it.

Ingredients go down the left. Each step is a cell to the right of the things it uses. A step that combines two sub-mixtures spans both. Read left to right and you see what has to be ready before what, and what can happen in parallel.

The format

This tabular notation was popularised by the Cooking for Engineers site in the 2000s. flowcook automates it: paste a link, and a model maps the text onto a dependency graph that a layout engine draws. Every cell links back to the sentence it came from, so mistakes are easy to spot and fix.

What we store

For pages you paste, we keep the source URL, the structured recipe, and the instruction paragraphs needed for provenance. We do not store page HTML, blog prose, comments, or images. Each grid credits and links its source.