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Overview

Paste & Go lets you import multiple recipes at once by pasting plain text. Copy recipes from a document, email, website, or notes app, paste them into Knead, and AI parses them into structured recipes with ingredients, quantities, and instructions. It is the fastest way to load your recipe library into The Pantry.

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How It Works

  1. Tap The Pantry in the sidebar, then tap Recipes.
  2. Tap the Import Recipes button in the top right.
  3. The text input screen opens.
Import Recipes screen with text area showing placeholder recipe format and Read My Recipes button
  1. Paste your recipe text into the text area. You can include one recipe or many — Knead handles both.
  2. Tap Read My Recipes.
Knead breaks your text into individual recipes and processes them in batches. You see a progress indicator showing the estimated recipe count as they are parsed.

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What to Paste

Paste & Go is flexible about formatting. It works with:
  • Recipes copied from websites or blogs.
  • Text from a notes app or Google Doc.
  • Recipes from an email or message.
  • Plain text you type or dictate.
The AI figures out where one recipe ends and the next begins. You do not need to format them in any special way. Here is an example of what you might paste: 
Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp baking soda

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla.
Mix in flour and baking soda. Fold in chips.
Bake at 375F for 9-11 minutes.

Banana Bread
3 ripe bananas
1/3 cup melted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups flour

Mash bananas. Mix in butter, sugar, egg, vanilla.
Add baking soda and flour. Pour into loaf pan.
Bake at 350F for 55-60 minutes.

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Reviewing Parsed Recipes

After processing, you see a review list showing each recipe the AI extracted. Each recipe card shows the name, ingredient count, and a preview of the instructions. Review each recipe for accuracy. You can edit names, adjust ingredient quantities, and fix any parsing errors before saving.
Pro tip: Paste & Go processes recipes in batches of roughly five. For a large recipe collection, paste them all at once — Knead handles the chunking automatically.

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Saving Recipes

Once you have reviewed the parsed recipes, save them to your Pantry. Each recipe is created as a separate entry in your recipe library, ready to be linked to products. Ingredients extracted from pasted recipes are matched against your existing Pantry. New ingredients are created automatically.
Good to know: Paste & Go and Snap & Create use the same ingredient matching and save logic. Recipes imported through either method are identical in your Pantry.
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