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Last updated August 23, 2026

What happens, and when

• Now through August 31, 2026 — the site stays online and everything is readable, right up until 7:00 p.m. Eastern on the 31st. This is the window to save anything you want to keep.
• August 31, 2026, 7:00 p.m. Eastern — the site is taken offline permanently. Recipe pages, member profiles, and any links or bookmarks pointing to them will stop working.

Saving your recipes

There are a few ways to do this. If you have more than a handful of recipes to save, start with PDFs — it is the quickest way to get everything safely onto your computer before the deadline, and you can print them on paper later at your leisure.

• Save a recipe as a PDFFastest for a large collection — a digital copy you can keep in a folder, email, or cloud drive
• Print a recipe on paperA clean printed copy, no software needed
• Import into MelaA recipe app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
• Import into PaprikaA recipe app for Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Before you start, it helps to gather your list of recipes: your own submissions are on your member profile page, and anything you saved is under your favorites.

Saving a recipe as a PDF

This is the quickest way to save a lot of recipes, and the most durable: a PDF keeps its formatting anywhere and does not depend on this site — or any app — staying online. You use your browser’s print screen, but save a file to your computer instead of sending it to a printer.

1. Open the recipe page and press ⌘ P (Mac) or Ctrl P (Windows).
2. On Windows, or in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on any platform: set the Destination or Printer dropdown to Save as PDF (sometimes listed as Microsoft Print to PDF), then click Save.
3. On a Mac, in Safari: click the PDF dropdown at the bottom-left of the print dialog and choose Save as PDF.
4. Give the file the recipe’s name and pick a folder to keep them all together.

A folder of PDFs is a good safety net even if you also import into an app — it is a plain copy that will still open years from now.

Printing a recipe on paper

Every recipe page has a print stylesheet that strips out the navigation, sidebars, and ads, so you get a clean copy of just the recipe.

1. Open the recipe page you want to keep.
2. Press ⌘ P on a Mac, or Ctrl P on Windows. (You can also use File → Print.)
3. Check the preview — you should see the recipe title, ingredients, and instructions without the site’s navigation.
4. Click Print.

Repeat for each recipe you want. With a large collection this is the slowest option, so if you have a lot to get through before the 31st, save them as PDFs first — you can print those from your computer any time after the site is gone.

Importing into Mela

Mela is a recipe app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It can pull a recipe in from a web address, so it will save the ingredients and instructions as an editable recipe rather than a flat page.

1. Copy the recipe’s web address from your browser’s address bar.
2. In Mela, start a new recipe and choose the option to add one from a link, then paste the address. Mela will fetch the page and fill in the recipe for you.
3. You can also use Mela’s built-in browser to open the recipe page and save it directly from there.
4. Check the imported recipe against the original — give the ingredients and steps a quick read to make sure nothing was missed.

Importing into Paprika

Paprika Recipe Manager is available for Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, and Android, and syncs your collection across them. Like Mela, it can import a recipe from a web address.

1. Copy the recipe’s web address from your browser’s address bar.
2. In Paprika, add a new recipe and choose the option to download or import from a web address, then paste it in.
3. Paprika also has a built-in browser: open the recipe page inside the app and use its save button to add it to your collection.
4. Give the imported recipe a quick check against the original before moving on.

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