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Printing

Print a recipe, your menu, or your grocery list. Each page carries its own way to print — a Print button, or, on the Menu and Groceries, Print inside the ⋮ menu at the top of the page. Tapping it opens a print-ready version of that page — laid out for paper, with nav, action rows, and other on-screen chrome stripped away, and typeset as its own document rather than a copy of the screen — and sends it to your printer. When you close the print dialog, that print window closes with it.

Every printout is numbered: each sheet shows its page number along the bottom (in Chrome and Safari; Firefox leaves them off).

  1. Open the recipe.
  2. Under the title, next to Share, tap Print.
  3. Pick your printer (or Save as PDF) in the system dialog.

What prints: a notepad copy for the counter, not a copy of the screen. The header carries the title, the description, and the recipe’s Source as a byline — From Serious Eats — as the recipe page reads on screen. Under them, one line names the category, your kitchen’s name and the yield, such as “Dinner · Smith Kitchen · Serves 4”. The time it takes follows when the recipe has one. Photos and the nutrition panel are left off.

At the right end of the header, a small QR code and the recipe’s web address point back to the live page, since a paper copy is otherwise a dead end. Scan the code, or type the address if a camera isn’t handy. The grocery-list and menu printouts carry QR codes too, without the printed address.

A step with a heading prints it with a rule under it. Each ingredient gets a small square box so you can tick it off as you cook. The ingredient reads in your kitchen’s Ingredient lines order, with a middot between name and amount: Garlic · 3 cloves with Name first, 3 cloves · Garlic with Amount first. An ingredient with no amount prints its name alone. A computed weight follows the amount in parentheses, such as 2 cups (~250 g). An optional ingredient carries (optional) after its name. A prep note and any other versions of the ingredient follow an em dash: Milk · ½ cup — warmed; or buttermilk, ½ cup. When one list holds more than six ingredients, it splits into two columns.

The instructions don’t get boxes; they get numbers. Each instruction paragraph is numbered, and the count runs through the whole recipe without starting over at a new step. A bulleted or numbered list you wrote yourself keeps its own markers.

A column for your notes runs down the right edge of every page, set off by a thin rule and labelled Notes at the top of the first page. On the last page the rule stops where the recipe does. After the last step comes the recipe’s footer, when it has one, then four dotted lines to write on.

If you’ve scaled the recipe on-screen, the printout carries that scale — the quantities on paper match what you’re looking at.

Cross-referenced recipes embedded in a step print inline with their host, in a thin frame — useful for batch days when one recipe pulls in another. The frame holds the embedded recipe’s title, with its multiplier, such as × 2, when it isn’t 1. Its steps continue the host’s numbering. Its ingredients print without computed weights, as on screen. Paper can’t follow a link, so a recipe referenced inside an embedded one prints as its title only.

The Print button sits next to Share on every recipe page, so anyone who can open the recipe can print it — household member or not.

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Open the ⋮ at the top of the page and tap Print.
  3. Pick your printer in the system dialog.

What prints: a menu for the fridge, not a copy of the screen. One line across the top names your kitchen and the week, such as “Smith Kitchen · Week of August 24”. The week is named for its first day in your kitchen’s time zone. That’s Monday unless an owner has changed it under Settings → Dates and times. The date reads in your kitchen’s date order, so a day-first kitchen gets “Week of 24 August”. With week numbers on, the line names the ISO week instead: “Week 37 · September 7”, or “Week 37 · 7 September” day-first.

Below that line, the dishes run down two columns, grouped under their category headings, in the order your categories sit in on the Recipes page. Within a category they run A to Z. Each dish shows its title, with its description under it in lighter type when the recipe has one. A QR code sits at the right of each dish: scan it to open that recipe. Every code on the menu prints at the same size. There are no boxes to tick, so cross a dish off once you’ve cooked it.

The QuickBites on your menu gather into one boxed list after the last category, whatever category each came from, without QR codes. So a category holding only QuickBites gets no heading of its own. A menu of only QuickBites prints that box alone, under the top line. Nothing else comes along: no ⋮ row menus, no ✓ availability marks, no cook times. Empty categories are left off. Add or remove items on the live Menu page first — the printout always shows the current menu, not a subset of it.

A long menu makes room before it takes a second sheet. First, each description shortens to one line, ending in an ellipsis where it’s cut. If that isn’t enough, the QuickBites box sets two to a row. If the menu still doesn’t fit, the columns continue on the next sheet, with the descriptions still shortened. Only the first sheet carries the top line.

If nothing is on your menu, the sheet says Nothing on the menu. under the top line.

The Print button is only shown to kitchen members.

  1. Open Groceries.
  2. If you shop by store, pick the store lens you want first — the printout carries whichever lens is active.
  3. Open the ⋮ at the right end of the toolbar and tap Print.
  4. Pick your printer in the system dialog.

What prints: a notepad list, not a copy of the screen. A line across the top of the first sheet reads Groceries, then the store when you print from one store’s lens, your kitchen’s name and today’s date — “Groceries · Corner Market · Smith Kitchen · October 13, 2026”. The date reads in your kitchen’s date order, and carries the week number too when week numbers are on. A QR code sits at the right end of that line. Scan it to open the live list on the same lens you printed: All stores, or that one store. Unlike a recipe printout, no web address prints under it.

Below, every aisle with at least one unbought item runs down three columns, in the same order as on screen. Under each aisle heading, its items run A to Z, each with a square box for a pencil tick. Items you’ve already checked off drop away, so the page in your pocket reads still to buy instead of everything you ever added. An aisle you’ve finished doesn’t print at all, not even its heading. An item with an amount carries it after the name on the same line, set off by a middot, such as Garlic · 3 cloves. An aisle too long for the rest of a column carries on at the top of the next, under its heading again with (cont.) after it. On the last sheet, the aisles spread across all three columns instead of piling into the first.

There’s room to write things in. When it fits, each aisle ends with a blank line: a box and a dotted rule. The list then ends with an Also block of up to six blank lines. Neither ever adds a sheet: if the aisles’ blank lines would, they’re all left off, and the Also block gets shorter, or is left off, to fit.

If you print a full-service store’s lens, the items you’ve set aside there print after the aisles, under Not Available Here. They print without boxes, since you won’t buy them there, and with no blank line after them.

If you’ve bought everything, the sheet says Nothing left to buy. under the top line.

Groceries is only open to kitchen members, so only they can print it.

The print page on its own

The Print button opens a print-ready page and prints it for you. That page also stands on its own. Open its address directly — or open the button in a new tab — and you’ll get a paper-like preview instead of an automatic print dialog. A strip across the top links back to the live page and carries its own Print button; your browser’s print command (Cmd+P or Ctrl+P) works there too. This is also what you’ll get if your browser has JavaScript turned off — the button becomes a plain link to that preview.

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Last updated October 13, 2026