Your recipes, in one place

Cooking, planned a little smarter

Chefilo keeps all your recipes in one place. Cooking for more or fewer people? Change the number of servings and every quantity adjusts by itself. Turn a recipe into a shopping list and ask Basil, your kitchen assistant, what to cook tonight.

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Eight categories

Every category its own flavour

Each category has its own colour and icon, so you find your way in the recipes at a glance.

  • BreakfastA good start
  • Main courseThe heart of the evening
  • SoupOne pot, plenty of flavour
  • SaladFresh and quick
  • ItalianPasta, pizza and more
  • SnackFor in between
  • PastryFresh from the oven
  • DessertA sweet ending

Fits you

Example

See straight away what fits you

Choose your allergies and diets on your profile. Every recipe card then says whether a recipe fits you, or what it contains.

Choose what applies to you

Allergies
Diets
  • Main course

    Oven-baked chicken with vegetables

  • Italian

    Pasta pesto

  • Soup

    Pumpkin soup with coconut

An indication, not medical advice. Nothing you pick here is saved.

What you can do

Everything a good cookbook needs

  1. Write and share recipes

    Add recipes with photos, ingredients and steps, keep your favourites close and browse what other members cook.

  2. Scale to the table

    Cooking for two or for ten? Change the number of servings and every quantity follows along.

  3. A shopping list that writes itself

    Add the ingredients of a recipe in one go, tick off what you have and share the list with whoever is shopping.

  4. See what your groceries cost

    Compare the price of your shopping list across supermarkets and pick the cheapest option.

  5. Scan a recipe from your cookbook

    Take one or more photos of a cookbook or recipe card and the recipe is ready in the form, also with your phone camera. For Premium members.

  6. Basil, your kitchen assistant

    Ask for ideas, let Basil search your recipes and get a suggestion for the shopping list. Basil is available to Premium members.

Fresh vegetables and herbs on a kitchen counter

How it works

From recipe to plate in four steps

  1. Find a recipe

    Browse the recipes of the members, or search by name, category or maker.

  2. Choose your servings

    Set how many people are eating; all quantities are recalculated straight away.

  3. Put it on your list

    One click puts the ingredients on your shopping list, merged with what is already on it.

  4. Start cooking

    Follow the steps at your own pace, with estimated nutrition values if you switch them on.

Fresh basil leaves in a stone mortar

Meet Basil

A sous-chef that thinks along

Basil searches the recipes and your own shopping list, suggests what you can make with what you have and prepares a recipe draft for the form. Basil only suggests: you decide what gets saved, and conversations are not stored.

Basil is part of Premium.

Basic and Premium

What can you do with your account?

Basic

For everyone who likes to cook from good recipes.

  • View and search all recipes
  • Scale servings
  • Favourites and recently viewed
  • Your own shopping list, to share or copy
  • Estimated nutrition values, if you want them
  • Compare your shopping list across supermarkets

Premium

For the home chef who wants to add their own recipes.

  • Everything in Basic
  • Add and edit your own recipes with photos
  • Basil, the AI kitchen assistant
  • Scan recipes from photos of your cookbook

You can sign up with e-mail or with Google. New accounts are approved by an administrator.

A cook at work at the pass of a restaurant kitchen

About the maker

Hi, I am Marc

Built to learn, made to be used.

I am Marc Badenhop from Hengelo, and Chefilo is my hobby project. Two worlds come together here: the kitchen and code.

I have always enjoyed cooking. Since 2019 I have worked in hospitality: at Subway and Automatiek de Toren, as a cook at Gasterij ’t Oaldershoes in Delden and now as a cook at Lust Bakery & Bistro in Hengelo. There I learned that quality, speed and teamwork make the difference, especially when it gets busy.

At the same time I am a developer. After my MBO level 4 in software engineering at ROC van Twente, I am now in the third year of the associate degree at Saxion University of Applied Sciences. I worked as a web developer at CRMCompany and Dutchbreeze and I am now a developer at Innovadis in Enschede.

Chefilo is where those two meet. I build it to learn how a complete web application fits together, from database and security to an AI assistant, and to make something that is genuinely useful in your own kitchen.

Kitchen
Cook and all-round worker since 2019
Code
Web developer since 2019
Education
ROC van Twente and Saxion
Region
Hengelo, Twente

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