The 6 Best Extensions for Chrome When You Don’t Know What to Cook

If you’ve ever tried cooking on a regular basis, then you’re no doubt aware that one of the hardest parts of cooking isn’t making the dish, but figuring out what exactly you’re going to do. Fortunately, there is a wide range of different Chrome extensions that aim to solve this problem in different ways.

Whether it’s making it easier to find, save, or read recipes, these Chrome extensions make it easier than ever to find what you’re cooking.

1. Recipe Basket

First on this list is Recipe Cart. If you’re looking for an all-in-one add-on that can streamline many parts of your cooking process, Recipe Cart is a great place to start.

To access Recipe Cart, you just need to install the extension from the Chrome Web Store. From there, it should show up automatically when you go to a website that has a recipe.

From there, you can do a lot with Recipe Cart. If you want an easy way to visualize your recipe, then Recipe Cart can help. If you want to save a recipe for later, Recipe Cart can do that too.

Where Recipe Cart shines, however, is in how it lets you easily set up your grocery lists. With just a few clicks, you can select the recipe ingredients you’re missing and have them delivered the same day through integration with Instacart or Amazon Fresh.

What’s great is that Recipe Cart also offers cost-per-serving breakdowns of the ingredients needed for your recipes, so you can know exactly how much it’s all going to cost before you get your ingredients delivered.

2. Copy Me That

Next we have Copy Me That. This Chrome extension is meant to be a comprehensive tool that you can use to save recipes, create shopping lists, and more.

To start using Copy Me That, you need to create an account. You can access it once you’ve downloaded and installed the extension, and Copy Me That will warn you if you try to use it without an account.

However, once you’re signed up, Copy Me That works pretty seamlessly. All you have to do is click the button in your extension bar and Copy Me That will automatically try to import your recipe into its own website.

You can adjust information as you import, including ingredients, instructions, images, and more. From there, you can easily access it at any time.

There are plenty of tools out there for making healthy and safe meals at home, and Copy Me That is no exception. You can plan your meals for the week with its meal planning feature, as well as make a shopping list based on your recipes whenever you want.

It is also possible to export your recipes, create collections and much more.

3. Pinterest save button

If you use Pinterest for cooking or dining inspiration, the Pinterest save button is a phenomenal little extension that should save you a lot of time and effort.

Without Pinterest’s save button, the best way to save meal plans and cooking ideas on Pinterest was to simply favorite the page and hope to find it later.

This Chrome extension makes things much easier, though. With it, you just browse Pinterest like you usually do. As soon as you see something you like, just click on the little button that the extension adds for you.

From here, you’ll be able to view and access your saved Pinterest posts whenever you want. It’s much easier to retain your ideas than with a bunch of bookmarks.

4. Whip

Whisk is next on this list. If you’re looking for something that focuses solely on saving recipes and helping you find new ones, then Whisk is a great resource for all your recipe saving needs.

Once you install Whisk and sign up for the service, you can quickly and easily save any recipes you find directly in the extension. If there’s a webpage that Whisk doesn’t know how to import, you can even manually enter the recipe details yourself.

Whisk also has tons of recipes collected from websites, so if you don’t know where to look to find a new recipe, Whisk might just have you covered there too.

5. Recipe filter

If you’ve ever tried to search for a recipe but found someone writing their life story, then Recipe Filter is the extension you’ve been looking for.

As you can imagine, Recipe Filter is an extension that filters the recipe from any website that has one, and shows it to you front and center. This makes it a great companion to many other free healthy cooking apps for beginners.

All you have to do is visit a website that has a recipe, and Recipe Filter will display the recipe in its own pop-up window for you to see. You can exit this window at any time if you wish to read what the original author has written. You can also set the extension to only work with certain websites if you want.

6. I just want the Janet recipe

Finally, we have I Just Want the Recipe Janet. Much like Recipe Filter, I Just Want the Recipe Janet aims to make finding the recipe easier than ever.

Where Recipe Filter floats the recipe above the content when you open a recipe, I Just Want the Recipe Janet adds a button that automatically appears at the bottom of your screen that you can click.

This button automatically redirects you to a plain text version of the recipe and all relevant information so you don’t have to search for it yourself.

Culinary inspiration doesn’t have to be hard to find

As you can see, there’s a huge variety of different Chrome extensions that make it easier than ever to find and save cooking inspiration.

Best of all, they’re all free to install and easy to remove, so there’s not much to lose by trying them all. And if you’re looking to practice cooking, online classes can be a helpful option.