How to save a recipe from a YouTube video
A 20-minute cooking video is a lot to scrub through when your hands are covered in flour. Paste the link into Forkato and get the recipe as a list of ingredients and numbered steps.
No account needed to see the recipe. Make a free one to keep it.
Step by step
- 1Open the video or ShortIn the YouTube app or on youtube.com.
- 2Tap Share, then Copy linkOn a computer you can also copy the address from the browser bar.
- 3Paste it into ForkatoUse the box on this page, or Save a recipe once you are signed in.
What Forkato reads
- The video description, where many cooks write the full recipe
- The transcript of what is said, so a recipe that is only talked through still comes out written down
- The top comments
What you get
- Ingredients with amounts, and steps in order
- Which ingredients you already have, once you add your pantry
- The missing ones on your shopping list in one tap
- Cook mode with big steps and timers, on your phone or Echo Show
If it does not work
- The description links to a recipe website
- Paste that website link instead. It is often the most complete version, and many recipe websites save free with no limit.
- The video has no captions and no recipe in the description
- There may be nothing to read. Pause on the ingredient list, screenshot it and save it as a photo.
- The video is private, members-only or age-restricted
- Forkato can only read videos anyone can watch.
Free accounts get 10 saves a month from videos, posts, photos and pasted text. Saves from many recipe websites are free and unlimited.