Tandoor Recipes
Open-source recipe manager to host yourself: fast recipe editor with tags and advanced search, fractions or decimals, quantity scaling, meal plan with several meals a day, shopping lists generated from the plan or recipes, recipe books and sharing, import from thousands of schema.org-compatible sites and from other managers, customisable themes. Simple installation with Docker, guides for Kubernetes, Unraid and Synology. Designed to share a collection with relatives, not as a public site. Translated by the community into many languages; licence and hosted offer not stated on the page.
Same observation as for Mealie: recipes, quantities that recalculate, a meal plan and a shopping list are a classic data model. Tandoor adds advanced search and recipe books. For a kitchen team, costs, margins, allergens and yields are missing. It suits a shared recipe book; ingredient cost needs a tool built around your purchase prices.
What you lose
- Advanced search and tags.
- Scaling and fractions.
- Import from thousands of sites.
- Recipe books and sharing between accounts.
Existing alternatives to Tandoor Recipes
- MealieOpen source
Open-source recipe manager (AGPL-3.0) with import, meal planning and shopping lists, simpler to install.
What a home-built tool costs once it exists
- Hosting and database: a server cost, and automatic backups you actually test.
- Security and GDPR: dependency updates, an HTTPS certificate, protection of your customers’ data.
- Upkeep time: who fixes the tool on a Saturday night in the middle of service if the server goes down?
The prompt to build it yourself
Build a shared recipe book for my kitchen team, replacing a self-hosted recipe manager. Context: a restaurant, 80 base recipes (sauces, stocks, garnishes) used by several dishes. To do: - Recipes with ingredients, quantities, steps, times and tags (sauce, garnish, dessert). - Nested recipes: a dish uses a sauce, and the quantities are recalculated. - Scaling for any number of portions, with readable fractions. - A search by ingredient, tag or title word. - A one-page print of a recipe for the workstation. - Accounts: chef (edits), cook (reads). Out of scope: import from websites, meal planning, costs. Stack: web app, SQLite. README: how to run, backup.
Frequently asked questions
- How much does Tandoor Recipes cost, and what do you really pay for?
- Listed price: free. What the subscription covers and is hard to maintain yourself: Advanced search and tags.; Scaling and fractions.; Import from thousands of sites.; Recipe books and sharing between accounts..
- What free or open-source alternatives to Tandoor Recipes exist?
- Mealie (open source). Options to compare before committing to a custom build.
- Where do you start to build an equivalent of Tandoor Recipes?
- Copy this page’s prompt into Claude, Codex or Cursor to get a first prototype. Then plan for hosting, data backups and GDPR compliance: that is what costs the most to maintain over time.
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